Word Meanings - AEROSTATION - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. Aërial navigation; the art of raising and guiding balloons in the air. 2. The science of weighing air; aërostatics.

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• GUIDAGE
  1. The reward given to a guide for services. Ainsworth. 2. Guidance; lead; direction. Southey.
• GUIDABLE
  Capable of being guided; willing to be guided or counseled. Sprat.
• RAISE
  To create or constitute; as, to raise a use that is, to create it. Burrill. To raise a blockade , to remove or break up a blockade, either by withdrawing the ships or forces employed in enforcing it, or by driving them away or dispersing them.
• RAISED
  1. Lifted up; showing above the surroundings; as, raised or embossed metal work. 2. Leavened; made with leaven, or yeast; -- used of bread, cake, etc., as distinguished from that made with cream of tartar, soda, etc. See Raise, v. t., 4. Raised
• RAIS
  See REIS
• WEIGHTINESS
  The quality or state of being weighty; weight; force; importance; impressiveness.
• WEIGHTILY
  In a weighty manner.
• WEIGHMASTER
  One whose business it is to weigh ore, hay, merchandise, etc.; one licensed as a public weigher.
• GUIDEBOOK
  A book of directions and information for travelers, tourists, etc.
• RAISING
  1. The act of lifting, setting up, elevating, exalting, producing, or restoring to life. 2. Specifically, the operation or work of setting up the frame of a building; as, to help at a raising. 3. The operation of embossing sheet metal,
• WEIGHER
  One who weighs; specifically, an officer whose duty it is to weigh commodities.
• GUIDE ROPE
  A rope hung from a balloon or dirigible so as trail along the ground for about half its length, used to preserve altitude automatically, by variation of the length dragging on the ground, without loss of ballast or gas.
• WEIGH-HOUSE
  A building at or within which goods, and the like, are weighed.
• RAISER
  One who, or that which, raises .
• WEIGHT
  The resistance against which a machine acts, as opposed to the power which moves it. Atomic weight. See under Atomic, and cf. Element. -- Dead weight, Feather weight, Heavy weight, Light weight, etc. See under Dead, Feather, etc. -- Weight of
• GUIDE
  cf. Goth. ritan to watch over, give heed to, Icel. viti signal, AS. witan to know. The word prob. meant, to indicate, point to, and 1. To lead or direct in a way; to conduct in a course or path; to pilot; as, to guide a traveler. I wish . . . you
• WEIGHTY
  1. Having weight; heavy; ponderous; as, a weighty body. 2. Adapted to turn the balance in the mind, or to convince; important; forcible; serious; momentous. "For sundry weighty reasons." Shak. Let me have your advice in a weighty affair. Swift.
• WEIGHBOARD
  Clay intersecting a vein. Weale.
• GUIDEBOARD
  A board, as upon a guidepost having upon it directions or information as to the road. Lowell.
• GUIDGUID
  A South American ant bird of the genus Hylactes; -- called also barking bird.
• APPRAISER
  One who appraises; esp., a person appointed and sworn to estimate and fix the value of goods or estates.
• LIVRAISON
  A part of a book or literary composition printed and delivered by itself; a number; a part.
• COUNTER WEIGHT
  A counterpoise.
• HEBRAIST
  One versed in the Hebrew language and learning.
• PINGUIDINOUS
  Containing fat; fatty.
• MISRAISE
  To raise or exite unreasonable. "Misraised fury." Bp. Hall.
• PRAISEWORTHINESS
  The quality or state of being praiseworthy.
• WELTERWEIGHT
  1. A weight of 28 pounds (one of 40 pounds is called a heavy welterweight) sometimes imposed in addition to weight for age, chiefly in steeplechases and hurdle races. 2. A boxer or wrestler whose weight is intermediate between that
• PINGUID
  Fat; unctuous; greasy. "Some clays are more pinguid." Mortimer.
• KARAISM
  Doctrines of the Karaites.
• PRESCIENCE
  Knowledge of events before they take place; foresight. God's certain prescience of the volitions of moral agents. J. Edwards.
• FRAISE
  A large and thick pancake, with slices of bacon in it. Johnson.
• ULTRAISM
  The principles of those who advocate extreme measures, as radical reform, and the like. Dr. H. More.
• OVERPRAISING
  The act of praising unduly; excessive praise. Milton.