Word Meanings - BEACHED - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. Bordered by a beach. The beached verge of the salt flood. Shak. 2. Driven on a beach; stranded; drawn up on a beach; as, the ship is beached.

Related words: (words related to BEACHED)

• FLOODER
  One who floods anything.
• VERGER
  One who carries a verge, or emblem of office. Specifically: -- An attendant upon a dignitary, as on a bishop, a dean, a justice, etc. Strype. The official who takes care of the interior of a church building.
• VERGETTE
  Divided by pallets, or pales; paly. W. Berry.
• FLOODAGE
  Inundation. Carlyle.
• VERGEBOARD
  The ornament of woodwork upon the gable of a house, used extensively in the 15th century. It was generally suspended from the edge of the projecting roof , and in position parallel to the gable wall. Called also bargeboard.
• DRAWN
  See PATTERN
• BEACHY
  Having a beach or beaches; formed by a beach or beaches; shingly. The beachy girdle of the ocean. Shak.
• FLOODING
  The filling or covering with water or other fluid; overflow; inundation; the filling anything to excess.
• FLOOD
  D. vloed, OS. flod, OHG. fluot, G. flut, Icel. floedh, Sw. & Dan. flod, Goth. flodus; from the root of E. flow. sq. root80. See Flow, 1. A great flow of water; a body of moving water; the flowing stream, as of a river; especially, a body of water,
• BEACH
  1. Pebbles, collectively; shingle. 2. The shore of the sea, or of a lake, which is washed by the waves; especially, a sandy or pebbly shore; the strand. Beach flea , the common name of many species of amphipod Crustacea, of the family Orchestidæ,
• VERGENCY
  The reciprocal of the focal distance of a lens, used as measure of the divergence or convergence of a pencil of rays. Humphrey Lloyd. (more info) 1. The act of verging or approaching; tendency; approach.
• DRIVEN
  of Drive. Also adj. Driven well, a well made by driving a tube into the earth to an aqueous stratum; -- called also drive well.
• BORDEREAU
  A note or memorandum, esp. one containing an enumeration of documents.
• BORDER
  bord a border; of German origin; cf. MHG. borte border, trimming, G. borte trimming, ribbon; akin to E. board in sense 8. See Board, n., 1. The outer part or edge of anything, as of a garment, a garden, etc.; margin; verge; brink. Upon the borders
• VERGE
  The compass of the court of Marshalsea and the Palace court, within which the lord steward and the marshal of the king's household had special jurisdiction; -- so called from the verge, or staff, which the marshal bore. 4. A virgate; a yardland.
• BEACHED
  1. Bordered by a beach. The beached verge of the salt flood. Shak. 2. Driven on a beach; stranded; drawn up on a beach; as, the ship is beached.
• STRAND
  One of the twists, or strings, as of fibers, wires, etc., of which a rope is composed.
• BEACH COMBER
  A long, curling wave rolling in from the ocean. See Comber.
• DRAWNET
  A net for catching the larger sorts of birds; also, a dragnet. Crabb.
• BORDERER
  One who dwells on a border, or at the extreme part or confines of a country, region, or tract of land; one who dwells near to a place or region. Borderers of the Caspian. Dyer.
• IMBORDER
  To furnish or inclose with a border; to form a border of. Milton.
• WATERFLOOD
  A flood of water; an inundation.
• INDRAWN
  Drawn in.
• HOME-DRIVEN
  Driven to the end, as a nail; driven close.
• LANDFLOOD
  An overflowing of land by river; an inundation; a freshet. Clarendon.
• SEA-BORDERING
  Bordering on the sea; situated beside the sea. Drayton.
• CUBDRAWN
  Sucked by cubs. This night, wherein the cub-drawn bear would couch. Shak.
• DIVERGE
  Etym: 1. To extend from a common point in different directions; to tend from one point and recede from each other; to tend to spread apart; to turn aside or deviate ; -- opposed to converge; as, rays of light diverge as they proceed from the sun.
• DIVERGEMENT
  Divergence.