Word Meanings - CAROLUS - Book Publishers vocabulary database
An English gold coin of the value of twenty or twenty-three shillings. It was first struck in the reign of Charles I. Told down the crowns and Caroluses. Macawlay.
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- THREE-SQUARE
Having a cross section in the form of an equilateral triangle; -- said especially of a kind of file. - FIRST
Sw. & Dan. förste, OHG. furist, G. fürst prince; a superlatiye form 1. Preceding all others of a series or kind; the ordinal of one; earliest; as, the first day of a month; the first year of a reign. 2. Foremost; in front of, or in advance of, - ENGLISHWOMAN
Fem. of Englishman. Shak. - THREE-MILE
Of or pertaining to three miles; as, the three-mile limit, or the limit of the marine belt of three miles included in territorial waters of a state. - THREE-PILE
An old name for the finest and most costly kind of velvet, having a fine, thick pile. I have served Prince Florizel and in my time wore three-pile. Shak. - THREE-DECKER
A vessel of war carrying guns on three decks. - THREE-SIDED
Having three sides, especially three plane sides; as, a three- sided stem, leaf, petiole, peduncle, scape, or pericarp. - THREE-CORNERED
Having three prominent longitudinal angles; as, a three- cornered stem. (more info) 1. Having three corners, or angles; as, a three-cornered hat. - THREE-PORT
Having three ports; specif.: Designating a type of two-cycle internal-combustion engine in which the mixture enters the crank case through a port uncovered by the piston near the end of its stroke. - THREE-PLY
Consisting of three distinct webs inwrought together in weaving, as cloth or carpeting; having three strands; threefold. - THREE-PARTED
Divided into, or consisting of, three parts; tripartite. Three- parted leaf , a leaf divided into three parts down to the base, but not entirely separate. - THREE-FLOWERED
Bearing three flowers together, or only three flowers. - THREEPENNY
Costing or worth three pence; hence, worth but little; poor; mean. - THREEFOLD
Consisting of three, or thrice repeated; triple; as, threefold justice. A threefold cord is not quickly broken. Eccl. iv. 12. - REIGN
regnum, fr. rex, regis, a king, fr. regere to guide, rule. See Regal, 1. Royal authority; supreme power; sovereignty; rule; dominion. He who like a father held his reign. Pope. Saturn's sons received the threefold reign Of heaven, of ocean,, and - FIRST-CLASS
Of the best class; of the highest rank; in the first division; of the best quality; first-rate; as, a first-class telescope. First- class car or First-class railway carriage, any passenger car of the highest regular class, and intended - THREE-LOBED
Having three lobes. Three-lobed leaf , a leaf divided into three parts, the sinuses extending not more than half way to the middle, and either the parts of the sinuses being rounded. - THREE-WAY
Connected with, or serving to connect, three channels or pipes; as, a three-way cock or valve. - THREE-QUARTER
Measuring thirty inches by twenty-five; -- said of portraitures. Three-quarter length, a portrait showing the figure to the hips only. - THREE-TORQUE SYSTEM OF CONTROL
Any system of rudders by which the pilot can exert a turning moment about each of the three rectangular axes of an aëroplane or airship. - PREIGNITION
Ignition in an internal-combustion engine while the inlet valve is open or before compression is completed. - WONDERSTRUCK
Struck with wonder, admiration, or surprise. Dryden. - FOREIGNER
A person belonging to or owning allegiance to a foreign country; one not native in the country or jurisdiction under consideration, or not naturalized there; an alien; a stranger. Joy is such a foreigner, So mere a stranger to my thoughts. Denham. - UNDERVALUE
1. To value, rate, or estimate below the real worth; to depreciate. 2. To esteem lightly; to treat as of little worth; to hold in mean estimation; to despise. In comparison of it I undervalued all ensigns of authority. Atterbury. I write not this - FOREIGNNESS
The quality of being foreign; remoteness; want of relation or appropriateness. Let not the foreignness of the subject hinder you from endeavoring to set me right. Locke. A foreignness of complexion. G. Eliot. - MOONSTRUCK
1. Mentally affected or deranged by the supposed influence of the moon; lunatic. 2. Produced by the supposed influence of the moon. "Moonstruck madness." Milton. 3. Made sick by the supposed influence of the moon, as a human being; made unsuitable - LATHEREEVE; LATHREEVE
Formerly, the head officer of a lathe. See 1st Lathe.