Word Meanings - STAROSTY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A castle and domain conferred on a nobleman for life. Brande & C.

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• CASTLEWARD
  See CASTLEGUARD
• CASTLE
  1. A fortified residence, especially that of a prince or nobleman; a fortress. The house of every one is to him castle and fortress, as well for his defense againts injury and violence, as for his repose. Coke. Our castle's strength Will laugh
• CONFERRABLE
  Capable of being conferred.
• BRANDER
  1. One who, or that which, brands; a branding iron. 2. A gridiron.
• CASTLET
  A small castle. Leland.
• CASTLERY
  The government of a castle. Blount.
• CONFERRER
  1. One who confers; one who converses. Johnson. 2. One who bestows; a giver.
• CASTLEBUILDER
  Fig.: one who builds castles in the air or forms visionary schemes. -- Cas"tle*build`ing, n.
• CASTLED
  Having a castle or castles; supporting a castle; as, a castled height or crag. 2. Fortified; turreted; as, castled walls.
• CONFERRUMINATE; CONFERRUMINATED
  Closely united by the coalescence, or sticking together, of contiguous faces, as in the case of the cotyledons of the live-oak acorn.
• CONFERREE
  See CONFEREE
• DOMAIN
  Ownership of land; an estate or patrimony which one has in his own right; absolute proprietorship; paramount or sovereign ownership. Public domain, the territory belonging to a State or to the general government; public lands. in the public domain
• NOBLEMAN
  One of the nobility; a noble; a peer; one who enjoys rank above a commoner, either by virtue of birth, by office, or by patent.
• CASTLE-GUARD
  A tax or imposition an a dwelling within a certain distance of a castle, for the purpose of maintaining watch and ward in it; castle-ward. 3. A feudal tenure, obliging the tenant to perform service within the realm, without limitation of time.
• BRANDENBURG
  A kind of decoration for the breast of a coat, sometimes only a frog with a loop, but in some military uniforms enlarged into a broad horizontal stripe. He wore a coat . . . trimmed with Brandenburgs. Smollett.
• UNCASTLE
  To take a castle from; to turn out of a castle.
• FORECASTLE
  A short upper deck forward, formerly raised like a castle, to command an enemy's decks. That part of the upper deck of a vessel forward of the foremast, or of the after part of the fore channels. In merchant vessels, the forward part of the vessel,