Word Meanings - HAWSER-LAID - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Made in the manner of a hawser. Cf. Cable-laid, and see Illust. of Cordage.

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• ILLUSTROUS
  Without luster.
• ILLUSTRIOUS
  1. Possessing luster or brightness; brilliant; luminous; splendid. Quench the light; thine eyes are guides illustrious. Beau. & Fl. 2. Characterized by greatness, nobleness, etc.; eminent; conspicuous; distinguished. Illustrious earls, renowened
• HAWSER-LAID
  Made in the manner of a hawser. Cf. Cable-laid, and see Illust. of Cordage.
• CABLEGRAM
  A message sent by a submarine telegraphic cable. Note:
• HAWSER
  A large rope made of three strands each containing many yarns. Note: Three hawsers twisted together make a cable; but it nautical usage the distinction between cable and hawser is often one of size rather than of manufacture. Hawser iron, a calking
• ILLUSTRATIVELY
  By way of illustration or elucidation. Sir T. Browne.
• ILLUSTRATIVE
  1. Tending or designed to illustrate, exemplify, or elucidate. 2. Making illustrious.
• MANNERIST
  One addicted to mannerism; a person who, in action, bearing, or treatment, carries characteristic peculiarities to excess. See citation under Mannerism.
• MANNERISM
  Adherence to a peculiar style or manner; a characteristic mode of action, bearing, or treatment, carried to excess, especially in literature or art. Mannerism is pardonable,and is sometimes even agreeable, when the manner, though vicious, is natural
• CABLET
  A little cable less than ten inches in circumference.
• CORDAGE
  Ropes or cords, collectively; hence, anything made of rope or cord, as those parts of the rigging of a ship which consist of ropes.
• ILLUSTRIOUSNESS
  The state or quality of being eminent; greatness; grandeur; glory; fame.
• ILLUSTRATION
  1. The act of illustrating; the act of making clear and distinct; education; also, the state of being illustrated, or of being made clear and distinct. 2. That which illustrates; a comparison or example intended to make clear or apprehensible,
• ILLUSTRIOUSLY
  In a illustrious manner; conspicuously; eminently; famously. Milton.
• CABLE
  A molding, shaft of a column, or any other member of convex, rounded section, made to resemble the spiral twist of a rope; -- called also cable molding. Bower cable, the cable belonging to the bower anchor. -- Cable road, a railway on which the
• ILLUSTRATE
  1. To make clear, bright, or luminous. Here, when the moon illustrates all the sky. Chapman. 2. To set in a clear light; to exhibit distinctly or conspicuously. Shak. To prove him, and illustrate his high worth. Milton. 3. To make clear,
• CABLELAID
  Composed of three three-stranded ropes, or hawsers, twisted together to form a cable. 2. Twisted after the manner of a cable; as, a cable-laid gold chain. Simmonds.
• MANNERLINESS
  The quality or state of being mannerly; civility; complaisance. Sir M. Hale.
• ILLUSTRATOR
  One who illustrates.
• MANNERED
  1. Having a certain way, esp a. polite way, of carrying and conducting one's self. Give her princely training, that she may be Mannered as she is born. Shak. 2. Affected with mannerism; marked by excess of some characteristic peculiarity. His style
• APPLICABLE
  Capable of being applied; fit or suitable to be applied; having relevance; as, this observation is applicable to the case under consideration. -- Ap"pli*ca*ble*ness, n. -- Ap"pli*ca*bly, adv.
• VOCABLE
  A word; a term; a name; specifically, a word considered as composed of certain sounds or letters, without regard to its meaning. Swamped near to drowning in a tide of ingenious vocables. Carlyle. (more info) fr. vocare to call, fr. vox, vocis,
• UNPLACABLE
  Implacable.
• PROGNOSTICABLE
  Capable of being prognosticated or foretold. Sir T. Browne.
• IMMEDICABLE
  Not to be healed; incurable. "Wounds immedicable." Milton.
• INEXPLICABLE
  Not explicable; not explainable; incapable of being explained, interpreted, or accounted for; as, an inexplicable mystery. "An inexplicable scratching." Cowper. Their reason is disturbed; their views become vast and perplexed, to others
• MULTIPLICABLE
  Capable of being multiplied; multipliable.
• UNMANNERLY
  Not mannerly; ill-bred; rude. -- adv.
• ERADICABLE
  Capable of being eradicated.
• PECCABLE
  Liable to sin; subject to transgress the divine law. "A frail and peccable mortal." Sir W. Scott.
• IMPACABLE
  Not to be appeased or quieted. Spenser. -- Im*pa"ca*bly, adv.
• DESPICABLE
  Fit or deserving to be despised; contemptible; mean; vile; worthless; as, a despicable man; despicable company; a despicable gift. Syn. -- Contemptible; mean; vile; worthless; pitiful; paltry; sordid; low; base. See Contemptible.
• VITRIFICABLE
  Vitrifiable.
• MASTICABLE
  Capable of being masticated.
• MERCABLE
  Capable of being bought or sold.
• PACABLE
  Placable. Coleridge.
• REVOCABLE
  Capable of being revoked; as, a revocable edict or grant; a revocable covenant. -- Rev"o*ca*ble*ness, n. -- Rev"o*ca*bly, adv.
• INJUDICABLE
  Not cognizable by a judge. Bailey.