Word Meanings - ALOFT - Book Publishers vocabulary database
In the top; at the mast head, or on the higher yards or rigging; overhead; hence , in or to heaven. (more info) 1. On high; in the air; high above the ground. "He steers his flight aloft." Milton.
Related words: (words related to ALOFT)
- GROUNDWORK
That which forms the foundation or support of anything; the basis; the essential or fundamental part; first principle. Dryden. - HIGHER-UP
A superior officer or official; -- used chiefly in pl. - GROUNDEN
p. p. of Grind. Chaucer. - HIGHERING
Rising higher; ascending. In ever highering eagle circles. Tennyson. - FLIGHTER
A horizontal vane revolving over the surface of wort in a cooler, to produce a circular current in the liquor. Knight. - GROUNDNUT
The fruit of the Arachis hypogæa ; the peanut; the earthnut. A leguminous, twining plant , producing clusters of dark purple flowers and having a root tuberous and pleasant to the taste. The dwarf ginseng . Gray. A European plant of the genus - ALOFT
In the top; at the mast head, or on the higher yards or rigging; overhead; hence , in or to heaven. (more info) 1. On high; in the air; high above the ground. "He steers his flight aloft." Milton. - GROUNDLESS
Without ground or foundation; wanting cause or reason for support; not authorized; false; as, groundless fear; a groundless report or assertion. -- Ground"less*ly, adv. -- Ground"less*ness, n. - OVERHEAD CHARGES; OVERHEAD EXPENSES
Those general charges or expenses in any business which cannot be charged up as belonging exclusively to any particular part of the work or product, as where different kinds of goods are made, or where there are different departments in a business; - 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 - FLIGHTINESS
The state or quality of being flighty. The flightness of her temper. Hawthorne. Syn. -- Levity; giddiness; volatility; lightness; wildness; eccentricity. See Levity. - ABOVESAID
Mentioned or recited before. - FLIGHTY
1. Fleeting; swift; transient. The flighty purpose never is o'ertook, Unless the deed go with it. Shak. 2. Indulging in flights, or wild and unrestrained sallies, of imagination, humor, caprice, etc.; given to disorder Proofs of my flighty and - HEAVEN
hevan, LG. heben, heven, Icel. hifinn; of uncertain origin, cf. D. hemel, G. himmel, Icel. himmin, Goth. himins; perh. akin to, or influenced by, the root of E. heave, or from a root signifying to cover, cf. Goth. gaham to put on, clothe one's - ABOVE-MENTIONED; ABOVE-NAMED
Mentioned or named before; aforesaid. - HEAVENLY
1. Pertaining to, resembling, or inhabiting heaven; celestial; not earthly; as, heavenly regions; heavenly music. As is the heavenly, such are they also that are heavenly. 1 Cor. xv. - FLIGHTILY
In a flighty manner. - HENCE
ending; cf. -wards), also hen, henne, hennen, heonnen, heonene, AS. heonan, heonon, heona, hine; akin to OHG. hinnan, G. hinnen, OHG. 1. From this place; away. "Or that we hence wend." Chaucer. Arise, let us go hence. John xiv. 31. I will send - STEERSMATE
One who steers; steersman. Milton. - YARDSTICK
A stick three feet, or a yard, in length, used as a measure of cloth, etc. - MISGROUND
To found erroneously. "Misgrounded conceit." Bp. Hall. - UNDERGROUND INSURANCE
Wildcat insurance. - PLAYGROUND
A piece of ground used for recreation; as, the playground of a school. - HEREHENCE
From hence. - WHENCEFORTH
From, or forth from, what or which place; whence. Spenser. - SPRIGGED
Having sprigs. - SHIP-RIGGED
Rigged like a ship, that is, having three masts, each with square sails. - THENCEFROM
From that place. - PASSIVE FLIGHT
Flight, such as gliding and soaring, accomplished without the use of motive power. - FOREGROUND
On a painting, and sometimes in a bas-relief, mosaic picture, or the like, that part of the scene represented, which is nearest to the spectator, and therefore occupies the lowest part of the work of art itself. Cf. Distance, n., 6. - BACKGROUND
The space which is behind and subordinate to a portrait or group of figures. Note: The distance in a picture is usually divided into foreground, middle distance, and background. Fairholt. 3. Anything behind, serving as a foil; as, the statue had