Word Meanings - SEASICKNESS - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The peculiar sickness, characterized by nausea and prostration, which is caused by the pitching or rolling of a vessel.

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• PITCHSTONE
  An igneous rock of semiglassy nature, having a luster like pitch.
• PECULIARIZE
  To make peculiar; to set appart or assign, as an exclusive possession. Dr. John Smith.
• CAUSEFUL
  Having a cause.
• PITCHERFUL
  The quantity a pitcher will hold.
• CAUSATIVE
  1. Effective, as a cause or agent; causing. Causative in nature of a number of effects. Bacon. 2. Expressing a cause or reason; causal; as, the ablative is a causative case.
• PITCHINESS
  Blackness, as of pitch; darkness.
• PITCHFORK
  A fork, or farming utensil, used in pitching hay, sheaves of grain, or the like.
• ROLLEY
  A small wagon used for the underground work of a mine. Tomlison.
• CAUSEWAYED; CAUSEYED
  Having a raised way ; paved. Sir W. Scott. C. Bronté.
• ROLLABLE
  Capable of being rolled.
• ROLLING-PIN
  A cylindrical piece of wood or other material, with which paste or dough may be rolled out and reduced to a proper thickness.
• ROLL
  To apply to another without slipping; to bring all the parts of into successive contact with another, in suck manner that at every instant the parts that have been in contact are equal. 10. To turn over in one's mind; to revolve. Full oft in
• CAUSATOR
  One who causes. Sir T. Browne.
• NAUSEANT
  A substance which produces nausea.
• PECULIARNESS
  The quality or state of being peculiar; peculiarity. Mede.
• PITCHWORK
  The work of a coal miner who is paid by a share of his product.
• CAUSTICILY
  1. The quality of being caustic; corrosiveness; as, the causticity of potash. 2. Severity of language; sarcasm; as, the causticity of a reply or remark.
• WHICHEVER; WHICHSOEVER
  Whether one or another; whether one or the other; which; that one which; as, whichever road you take, it will lead you to town.
• PITCHER
  1. One who pitches anything, as hay, quoits, a ball, etc.; specifically , the player who delivers the ball to the batsman. 2. A sort of crowbar for digging. Mortimer.
• CAUSATIVELY
  In a causative manner.
• ANTICAUSODIC
  See ANTICAUSOTIC
• TROLLEY; TROLLY
  A form of truck which can be tilted, for carrying railroad materials, or the like. A narrow cart that is pushed by hand or drawn by an animal. A truck from which the load is suspended in some kinds of cranes. A truck which travels along the fixed
• CONTROLLABLENESS
  Capability of being controlled.
• AUCTION PITCH
  A game of cards in which the players bid for the privilege of determining or "pitching" the trump suit. R. F. Foster.
• WATER PITCHER
  One of a family of plants having pitcher-shaped leaves. The sidesaddle flower is the type. (more info) 1. A pitcher for water.
• DROLLIST
  A droll. Glanvill.