Word Meanings - SKYSCRAPER - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A name for the one of the fancy sails alleged to have been sometimes set above the skysail. A very tall building. (more info) A skysail of a triangular form.

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• SKYSAIL
  The sail set next above the royal. See Illust. under Sail.
• SOMETIMES
  1. Formerly; sometime. That fair and warlike form In which the majesty of buried Denmark Did sometimes march. Shak. 2. At times; at intervals; now and then;occasionally. It is good that we sometimes be contradicted. Jer. Taylor. Sometimes . . .
• ALLEGIANT
  Loyal. Shak.
• ALLEGORIC; ALLEGORICAL
  Belonging to, or consisting of, allegory; of the nature of an allegory; describing by resemblances; figurative. "An allegoric tale." Falconer. "An allegorical application." Pope. Allegorical being . . . that kind of language which says one thing,
• TRIANGULAR
  Oblong or elongated, and having three lateral angles; as, a triangular seed, leaf, or stem. Triangular compasses, compasses with three legs for taking off the angular points of a triangle, or any three points at the same time. -- Triangular crab
• FANCYWORK
  Ornamental work with a needle or hook, as embroidery, crocheting, netting, etc.
• ALLEGORIZATION
  The act of turning into allegory, or of understanding in an allegorical sense.
• ALLEGORIZER
  One who allegorizes, or turns things into allegory; an allegorist.
• ALLEGORIST
  One who allegorizes; a writer of allegory. Hume.
• FANCYMONGER
  A lovemonger; a whimsical lover. Shak.
• ABOVEBOARD
  Above the board or table. Hence: in open sight; without trick, concealment, or deception. "Fair and aboveboard." Burke. Note: This expression is said by Johnson to have been borrowed from gamesters, who, when they change their cards, put their hands
• ALLEGE
  prop. to free from legal difficulties, fr. an assumed LL. exlitigare; L. ex + litigare to quarrel, sue . The word was 1. To bring forward with positiveness; to declare; to affirm; to assert; as, to allege a fact. 2. To cite or quote; as, to allege
• ALLEGEABLE
  Capable of being alleged or affirmed. The most authentic examples allegeable in the case. South.
• ABOVESAID
  Mentioned or recited before.
• FANCY
  fantaisie, F. fantaisie, L. phantasia, fr. Gr. bhato shine. Cf. 1. The faculty by which the mind forms an image or a representation of anything perceived before; the power of combining and modifying such objects into new pictures or images; the
• ABOVE-MENTIONED; ABOVE-NAMED
  Mentioned or named before; aforesaid.
• TRIANGULARES
  The triangular, or maioid, crabs. See Illust. under Maioid, and Illust. of Spider crab, under Spider.
• ALLEGORY
  A figure representation which has a meaning beyond notion directly conveyed by the object painted or sculptured. Syn. -- Metaphor; fable. -- Allegory, Parable. "An allegory differs both from fable and parable, in that the properties of persons are
• ALLEGATION
  A statement by a party of what he undertakes to prove, -- usually applied to each separate averment; the charge or matter undertaken to be proved. (more info) send a message, cite; later, to free by giving reasons; ad + legare 1. The
• ALLEGORIZE
  1. To form or turn into allegory; as, to allegorize the history of a people. 2. To treat as allegorical; to understand in an allegorical sense; as, when a passage in a writer may understood literally or figuratively, he who gives it a figurative
• DISFANCY
  To dislike.
• SHIPBUILDER
  A person whose occupation is to construct ships and other vessels; a naval architect; a shipwright.
• INFANCY
  The state or condition of one under age, or under the age of twenty-one years; nonage; minority. (more info) 1. The state or period of being an infant; the first part of life; early childhood. The babe yet lies in smiling infancy. Milton. Their
• OUTBUILD
  To exceed in building, or in durability of building.
• GALLEGAN; GALLEGO
  A native or inhabitant of Galicia, in Spain; a Galician.
• OVERBUILD
  1. To build over. Milton. 2. To build too much; to build beyond the demand.
• UNDERBUILDER
  A subordinate or assistant builder. An underbuilder in the house of God. Jer. Taylor.