Word Meanings - CROSSJACK - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The lowest square sail, or the lower yard of the mizzenmast.

Related words: (words related to CROSSJACK)

• LOWERMOST
  Lowest.
• SQUARE-TOED
  Having the toe square. Obsolete as fardingales, ruffs, and square-toed shoes. V. Knox.
• SQUARELY
  In a square form or manner.
• LOWERY
  Cloudy; gloomy; lowering; as, a lowery sky; lowery weather.
• SQUARE-RIGGED
  Having the sails extended upon yards suspended horizontally by the middle, as distinguished from fore-and-aft sails; thus, a ship and a brig are square-rigged vessels.
• LOWER
  Compar. of Low, a.
• SQUARE
  An instrument having at least one right angle and two or more straight edges, used to lay out or test square work. It is of several forms, as the T square, the carpenter's square, the try-square., etc. 5. Hence, a pattern or rule. (more
• LOWER-CASE
  Pertaining to, or kept in, the lower case; -- used to denote the small letters, in distinction from capitals and small capitals. See the Note under 1st Case, n., 3.
• LOWERING
  Dark and threatening; gloomy; sullen; as, lowering clouds or sky.
• MIZZENMAST
  The hindmost mast of a three-masted vessel, or of a yawl-rigged vessel.
• SQUARER
  1. One who, or that which, squares. 2. One who squares, or quarrels; a hot-headed, contentious fellow. Shak.
• SQUARE-TOES
  A precise person; -- used contemptuously or jocularly. Thackeray.
• SQUARENESS
  The quality of being square; as, an instrument to try the squareness of work.
• LOWERINGLY
  In a lowering manner; with cloudiness or threatening gloom.
• WILLOWER
  A willow. See Willow, n., 2.
• WINDFLOWER
  The anemone; -- so called because formerly supposed to open only when the wind was blowing. See Anemone.
• THREE-SQUARE
  Having a cross section in the form of an equilateral triangle; -- said especially of a kind of file.
• FLOWERY-KIRTLED
  Dressed with garlands of flowers. Milton.
• CAULIFLOWER
  An annual variety of Brassica oleracea, or cabbage of which the cluster of young flower stalks and buds is eaten as a vegetable. 2. The edible head or "curd" of a caulifower plant. (more info) caulis, and by E. flower; F. chou cabbage is fr. L.
• FLOWER-DE-LUCE
  A genus of perennial herbs with swordlike leaves and large three-petaled flowers often of very gay colors, but probably white in the plant first chosen for the royal French emblem. Note: There are nearly one hundred species, natives of the north
• T SQUARE
  See T
• WALLOWER
  A lantern wheel; a trundle. (more info) 1. One who, or that which, wallows.
• FLOWERY
  1. Full of flowers; abounding with blossoms. 2. Highly embellished with figurative language; florid; as, a flowery style. Milton. The flowery kingdom, China.
• FLOWERLESSNESS
  State of being without flowers.
• MAYFLOWER
  In England, the hawthorn; in New England, the trailing arbutus ; also, the blossom of these plants.
• UNFLOWER
  To strip of flowers. G. Fletcher.
• FLOWERLESS
  Having no flowers. Flowerless plants, plants which have no true flowers, and produce no seeds; cryptigamous plants.
• ALLOWER
  1. An approver or abettor. 2. One who allows or permits.
• CAPSQUARE
  A metal covering plate which passes over the trunnions of a cannon, and holds it in place.
• GLOBEFLOWER
  A plant of the genus Trollius , found in the mountainous parts of Europe, and producing handsome globe-shaped flowers. The American plant Trollius laxus. Japan globeflower. See Corchorus.