Word Meanings - CROW'S-NEST - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A box or perch near the top of a mast, esp. in whalers, to shelter the man on the lookout.

Related words: (words related to CROW\'S-NEST)

• SHELTERLESS
  Destitute of shelter or protection. Now sad and shelterless perhaps she lies. Rowe.
• PERCHANCE
  By chance; perhaps; peradventure.
• LOOKOUT
  1. A careful looking or watching for any object or event. 2. The place from which such observation is made. 3. A person engaged in watching. 4. Object or duty of forethought and care; responsibility.
• SHELTERY
  Affording shelter.
• SHELTER
  scheldtrome, a guard, squadron, AS. scildtruma a troop of men with 1. That which covers or defends from injury or annoyance; a protection; a screen. The sick and weak the healing plant shall aid, From storms a shelter, and from heat a shade. Pope.
• PERCH
  1. Any fresh-water fish of the genus Perca and of several other allied genera of the family Percidæ, as the common American or yellow perch , and the European perch (P. fluviatilis). 2. Any one of numerous species of spiny-finned fishes belonging
• PERCHLORATE
  A salt of perchloric acid.
• PERCHROMIC
  Pertaining to, or designating, a certain one of the highly oxidized compounds of chromium, which has a deep blue color, and is produced by the action of hydrogen peroxide.
• PERCHERON
  One of a breed of draught horses originating in Perche, an old district of France; -- called also Percheron-Norman.
• PERCHER
  A Paris candle anciently used in England; also, a large wax candle formerly set upon the altar. Bailey. (more info) 1. One who, or that which, perches. J. Burroughs. 2. One of the Insessores. 3. Etym:
• PERCHLORIC
  Pertaining to, or designating, the highest oxygen acid , of chlorine; -- called also hyperchloric.
• PERCHANT
  A bird tied by the foot, to serve as decoy to other birds by its fluttering.
• PERCHLORIDE
  A chloride having a higher proportion of chlorine than any other chloride of the same substance or series.
• GUTTA-PERCHA
  A concrete juice produced by various trees found in the Malayan archipelago, especially by the Isonandra, or Dichopsis, Gutta. It becomes soft, and unpressible at the tamperature of boiling water, and, on cooling, retains its new shape. It dissolves
• SUPERCHERY
  Deceit; fraud; imposition.
• OVERPERCH
  To perch upon; to fly over. Shak.
• HYPERCHROMATISM
  The condition of having an unusual intensity of color.
• SEA PERCH
  The European bass ; -- called also sea dace. The cunner. The sea bass. The name is applied also to other species of fishes.
• SUPERCHEMICAL
  Above or beyond chemistry; inexplicable by chemical laws. J. Le Conte.
• ENSHELTER
  To shelter.
• SUPERCHARGE
  To charge upon another bearing; as, to supercharge a rose upon a fess.
• COLEPERCH
  A kind of small black perch.
• HYPERCHLORIC
  See PERCHLORIC