Word Meanings - GROUNDAGE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A local tax paid by a ship for the ground or space it occupies while in port. Bouvier.

Related words: (words related to GROUNDAGE)

• WHILE
  wigl, G. weile, OHG. wila, hwila, hwil, Icel. hvila a bed, hvild rest, Sw. hvila, Dan. hvile, Goth. hweila a time, and probably to L. 1. Space of time, or continued duration, esp. when short; a time; as, one while we thought him innocent. "All
• WHILES
  1. Meanwhile; meantime. The good knight whiles humming to himself the lay of some majored troubadour. Sir. W. Scott. 2. sometimes; at times. Sir W. Scott. The whiles. See under While, n.
• GROUNDWORK
  That which forms the foundation or support of anything; the basis; the essential or fundamental part; first principle. Dryden.
• GROUNDEN
  p. p. of Grind. Chaucer.
• WHILERE
  A little while ago; recently; just now; erewhile. Helpeth me now as I did you whilere. Chaucer. He who, with all heaven's heraldry, whilere Entered the world. Milton.
• GROUNDNUT
  The fruit of the Arachis hypogæa ; the peanut; the earthnut. A leguminous, twining plant , producing clusters of dark purple flowers and having a root tuberous and pleasant to the taste. The dwarf ginseng . Gray. A European plant of the genus
• SPACE
  One of the intervals, or open places, between the lines of the staff. Absolute space, Euclidian space, etc. See under Absolute, Euclidian, etc. -- Space line , a thin piece of metal used by printers to open the lines of type to a regular distance
• GROUNDLESS
  Without ground or foundation; wanting cause or reason for support; not authorized; false; as, groundless fear; a groundless report or assertion. -- Ground"less*ly, adv. -- Ground"less*ness, n.
• LOCALIZE
  To make local; to fix in, or assign to, a definite place. H. Spencer. Wordsworth.
• LOCALLY
  With respect to place; in place; as, to be locally separated or distant.
• LOCALITY
  The perceptive faculty concerned with the ability to remember the relative positions of places. (more info) 1. The state, or condition, of belonging to a definite place, or of being contained within definite limits. It is thought that the soul
• LOCALIZATION
  Act of localizing, or state of being localized. Cerebral localization , the localization of the control of special functions, as of sight or of the various movements of the body, in special regions of the brain.
• LOCALE
  1. A place, spot, or location. 2. A principle, practice, form of speech, or other thing of local use, or limited to a locality.
• GROUNDLY
  Solidly; deeply; thoroughly. Those whom princes do once groundly hate, Let them provide to die as sure us fate. Marston.
• GROUNDING
  The act, method, or process of laying a groundwork or foundation; hence, elementary instruction; the act or process of applying a ground, as of color, to wall paper, cotton cloth, etc.; a basis.
• GROUNDAGE
  A local tax paid by a ship for the ground or space it occupies while in port. Bouvier.
• SPACE BAR; SPACE KEY
  A bar or key, in a typewriter or typesetting machine, used for spacing between letters.
• GROUNDLING
  A fish that keeps at the bottom of the water, as the loach. 2. A spectator in the pit of a theater, which formerly was on the ground, and without floor or benches. No comic buffoon to make the groundlings laugh. Coleridge.
• GROUND
  A floor or pavement supposed to rest upon the earth. 2. Any definite portion of the earth's surface; region; territory; country. Hence: A territory appropriated to, or resorted to, for a particular purpose; the field or place of action;
• SPACELESS
  Without space. Coleridge.
• MISGROUND
  To found erroneously. "Misgrounded conceit." Bp. Hall.
• UNDERGROUND INSURANCE
  Wildcat insurance.
• PLAYGROUND
  A piece of ground used for recreation; as, the playground of a school.
• ERSTWHILE
  Till then or now; heretofore; formerly.
• FOREGROUND
  On a painting, and sometimes in a bas-relief, mosaic picture, or the like, that part of the scene represented, which is nearest to the spectator, and therefore occupies the lowest part of the work of art itself. Cf. Distance, n., 6.
• BACKGROUND
  The space which is behind and subordinate to a portrait or group of figures. Note: The distance in a picture is usually divided into foreground, middle distance, and background. Fairholt. 3. Anything behind, serving as a foil; as, the statue had
• UNDERGROUND
  The place or space beneath the surface of the ground; subterranean space. A spirit raised from depth of underground. Shak.
• EREWHILE; EREWHILES
  Some time ago; a little while before; heretofore. I am as fair now as I was erewhile. Shak.
• MIDDLE-GROUND
  That part of a picture between the foreground and the background.
• WORTHWHILE
  Worth the time or effort spent. See worth while. worthy. -- worthwhileness.