Word Meanings - TOPGALLANT - Book Publishers vocabulary database
Situated above the topmast and below the royal mast; designatb, or pertaining to, the third spars in order from the deck; as, the topgallant mast, yards, braces, and the like. See Illustration of Ship. 2. Fig.: Highest; elevated; splendid. "The
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Situated above the topmast and below the royal mast; designatb, or pertaining to, the third spars in order from the deck; as, the topgallant mast, yards, braces, and the like. See Illustration of Ship. 2. Fig.: Highest; elevated; splendid. "The consciences of topgallant sparks." L'Estrange. Topgallant breeze, a breeze in which the topgallant sails may properly be carried.
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- THIRD
The third tone of the scale; the mediant. 4. pl. (more info) 1. The quotient of a unit divided by three; one of three equal parts into which anything is divided. 2. The sixtieth part of a second of time. - SPLENDIDIOUS
Splendid. - ROYALIZE
to make royal. Shak. - SPARSELY
In a scattered or sparse manner. - THIRDLY
In the third place. Bacon. - SITUATE
To place. Landor. - SPLENDIDLY
In a splendid manner; magnificently. - 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 - ROYALIZATION
The act of making loyal to a king. Saintsbury. - ABOVESAID
Mentioned or recited before. - ELEVATOR
One who, or that which, raises or lifts up anything; as: A mechanical contrivance, usually an endless belt or chain with a series of scoops or buckets, for transferring grain to an upper loft for storage. A cage or platform and the hoisting - ORDERLY
1. Conformed to order; in order; regular; as, an orderly course or plan. Milton. 2. Observant of order, authority, or rule; hence, obedient; quiet; peaceable; not unruly; as, orderly children; an orderly community. 3. Performed in good - SPARSIM
Sparsely; scatteredly; here and there. - SITUATE; SITUATED
1. Having a site, situation, or location; being in a relative position; permanently fixed; placed; located; as, a town situated, or situate, on a hill or on the seashore. 2. Placed; residing. Pleasure situate in hill and dale. Milton. Note: Situate - ABOVE-MENTIONED; ABOVE-NAMED
Mentioned or named before; aforesaid. - PERTAIN
stretch out, reach, pertain; per + tenere to hold, keep. See Per-, 1. To belong; to have connection with, or dependence on, something, as an appurtenance, attribute, etc.; to appertain; as, saltness pertains to the ocean; flowers pertain to plant - TOPGALLANT
A topgallant mast or sail. 2. Fig.: Anything elevated or splendid. Bacon. - YARDSTICK
A stick three feet, or a yard, in length, used as a measure of cloth, etc. - THIRDINGS
The third part of the corn or grain growing on the ground at the tenant's death, due to the lord for a heriot, as within the manor of Turfat in Herefordshire. - ILLUSTRATION
1. The act of illustrating; the act of making clear and distinct; education; also, the state of being illustrated, or of being made clear and distinct. 2. That which illustrates; a comparison or example intended to make clear or apprehensible, - SUPERROYAL
Larger than royal; -- said of a particular size of printing and writing paper. See the Note under Paper, n. - IMBORDER
To furnish or inclose with a border; to form a border of. Milton. - FORE-TOPMAST
The mast erected at the head of the foremast, and at the head of which stands the fore-topgallant mast. See Ship. - MISORDER
To order ill; to manage erroneously; to conduct badly. Shak. - ACCORDER
One who accords, assents, or concedes. - PENNYROYAL
An aromatic herb of Europe; also, a North American plant resembling it in flavor. Bastard pennyroyal See Blue curls, under Blue. (more info) puliall is ultimately derived fr. L. puleium, or pulegium regium (so called as being good against