Word Meanings - BOXHAUL - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To put on the other tack by veering her short round on her heel; -- so called from the circumstance of bracing the head yards abox . Totten.

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• CALLOSUM
  The great band commissural fibers which unites the two cerebral hemispheres. See corpus callosum, under Carpus.
• CALLOW
  1. Destitute of feathers; naked; unfledged. An in the leafy summit, spied a nest, Which, o'er the callow young, a sparrow pressed. Dryden. 2. Immature; boyish; "green"; as, a callow youth. I perceive by this, thou art but a callow maid. Old Play .
• CALLE
  A kind of head covering; a caul. Chaucer.
• ROUNDWORM
  A nematoid worm.
• BRACHIOGANOID
  One of the Brachioganoidei.
• BRACTLESS
  Destitute of bracts.
• ROUNDISH
  Somewhat round; as, a roundish seed; a roundish figure. -- Round"ish*ness, n.
• OTHERGUISE; OTHERGUESS
  Of another kind or sort; in another way. "Otherguess arguments." Berkeley.
• ROUNDABOUTNESS
  The quality of being roundabout; circuitousness.
• SHORT-WITED
  Having little wit; not wise; having scanty intellect or judgment.
• ROUNDFISH
  Any ordinary market fish, exclusive of flounders, sole, halibut, and other flatfishes. A lake whitefish , less compressed than the common species. It is very abundant in British America and Alaska.
• ROUND-UP
  The act of collecting or gathering together scattered cattle by riding around them and driving them in.
• CALLER
  1. Cool; refreshing; fresh; as, a caller day; the caller air. Jamieson. 2. Fresh; in good condition; as, caller berrings.
• BRACCATE
  Furnished with feathers which conceal the feet.
• CALL
  1. To speak in loud voice; to cry out; to address by name; -- sometimes with to. You must call to the nurse. Shak. The angel of God called to Hagar. Gen. xxi. 17. 2. To make a demand, requirement, or request. They called for rooms, and he showed
• SHORT CIRCUIT
  A circuit formed or closed by a conductor of relatively low resistance because shorter or of relatively great conductivity.
• SHORT-HANDED
  Short of, or lacking the regular number of, servants or helpers.
• BRACHYPTEROUS
  Having short wings.
• ROUNDSMAN
  A patrolman; also, a policeman who acts as an inspector over the rounds of the patrolmen.
• SHORTHEAD
  A sucking whale less than one year old; -- so called by sailors.
• COUNTERBRACE
  To brace in opposite directions; as, to counterbrace the yards, i. e., to brace the head yards one way and the after yards another.
• NOTOTHERIUM
  An extinct genus of gigantic herbivorous marsupials, found in the Pliocene formation of Australia.
• GYMNASTICALLY
  In a gymnastic manner.
• MISGROUND
  To found erroneously. "Misgrounded conceit." Bp. Hall.
• HYPERCRITICALLY
  In a hypercritical manner.
• SCALLION
  A kind of small onion , native of Palestine; the eschalot, or shallot. 2. Any onion which does not "bottom out," but remains with a thick stem like a leek. Amer. Cyc.
• UNEMPIRICALLY
  Not empirically; without experiment or experience.
• ISOGEOTHERMAL; ISOGEOTHERMIC
  Pertaining to, having the nature of, or marking, isogeotherms; as, an isogeothermal line or surface; as isogeothermal chart. -- n.
• SUBBRACHIAL
  Of or pertaining to the subbrachians.
• UNIVOCALLY
  In a univocal manner; in one term; in one sense; not equivocally. How is sin univocally distinguished into venial and mortal, if the venial be not sin Bp. Hall.
• SMOTHER
  Etym: 1. To destroy the life of by suffocation; to deprive of the air necessary for life; to cover up closely so as to prevent breathing; to suffocate; as, to smother a child. 2. To affect as by suffocation; to stife; to deprive of air by a thick
• PARABOLICALLY
  1. By way of parable; in a parabolic manner. 2. In the form of a parabola.
• STEREOGRAPHICALLY
  In a stereographical manner; by delineation on a plane.
• HEMEROCALLIS
  A genus of plants, some species of which are cultivated for their beautiful flowers; day lily.
• UNDERGROUND INSURANCE
  Wildcat insurance.