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Word Meanings - HUSBANDAGE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The commission or compensation allowed to a ship's husband.

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  • ALLOWEDLY
    By allowance; admittedly. Shenstone.
  • ALLOW
    allocare to admit as proved, to place, use; confused with OF. aloer, fr. L. allaudare to extol; ad + laudare to praise. See Local, and cf. 1. To praise; to approve of; hence, to sanction. Ye allow the deeds of your fathers. Luke xi. 48. We commend
  • ALLOWER
    1. An approver or abettor. 2. One who allows or permits.
  • HUSBANDABLE
    Capable of being husbanded, or managed with economy. Sherwood.
  • HUSBANDLESS
    Destitute of a husband. Shak.
  • COMMISSIONAIRE
    1. One intrusted with a commission, now only a small commission, as an errand; esp., an attendant or subordinate employee in a public office, hotel, or the like. The commissionaire familiar to European travelers performs miscellaneous services
  • HUSBANDRY
    1. Care of domestic affairs; economy; domestic management; thrift. There's husbandry in heaven; Their candles are all out. Shak. 2. The business of a husbandman, comprehending the various branches of agriculture; farming. Husbandry supplieth all
  • HUSBANDLY
    Frugal; thrifty. Tusser.
  • COMMISSION
    1. The act of committing, doing, or performing; the act of perpetrating. Every commission of sin introduces into the soul a certain degree of hardness. South. 2. The act of intrusting; a charge; instructions as to how a trust shall be executed.
  • ALLOWABLENESS
    The quality of being allowable; permissibleness; lawfulness; exemption from prohibition or impropriety. South.
  • COMMISSIONAL; COMMISSIONARY
    Of pertaining to, or conferring, a commission; conferred by a commission or warrant. Delegate or commissionary authority. Bp. Hall.
  • ALLOWABLE
    1. Praiseworthy; laudable. Hacket. 2. Proper to be, or capable of being, allowed; permissible; admissible; not forbidden; not unlawful or improper; as, a certain degree of freedom is allowable among friends.
  • HUSBANDAGE
    The commission or compensation allowed to a ship's husband.
  • ALLOWANCE
    A customary deduction from the gross weight of goods, different in different countries, such as tare and tret. (more info) 1. Approval; approbation. Crabbe. 2. The act of allowing, granting, conceding, or admitting; authorization; permission;
  • HUSBAND
    the house or family, AS. h master of the house; h house + bunda, bonda, householder, husband; prob. fr. Icel. h house master, husband; h house + b dwelling, inhabiting, p.pr. of b to dwell; akin to AS. b, 1. The male head of a household; one who
  • HUSBANDMAN
    1. The master of a family. Chaucer. 2. A farmer; a cultivator or tiller of the ground.
  • COMMISSIONATE
    To commission
  • COMMISSIONNAIRE
    1. An agent or factor; a commission merchant. 2. One of a class of attendants, in some European cities, who perform miscellaneous services for travelers.
  • ALLOWABLY
    In an allowable manner.
  • COMMISSIONER
    1. A person who has a commission or warrant to perform some office, or execute some bussiness, for the goverment, corporation, or person employing him; as, a commissioner to take affidavits or to adjust claims. To another adress which requisted
  • CALLOW
    1. Destitute of feathers; naked; unfledged. An in the leafy summit, spied a nest, Which, o'er the callow young, a sparrow pressed. Dryden. 2. Immature; boyish; "green"; as, a callow youth. I perceive by this, thou art but a callow maid. Old Play .
  • HALLOW
    To make holy; to set apart for holy or religious use; to consecrate; to treat or keep as sacred; to reverence. "Hallowed be thy name." Matt. vi. 9. Hallow the Sabbath day, to do no work therein. Jer. xvii. 24. His secret altar touched with hallowed
  • THRYFALLOW
    To plow for the third time in summer; to trifallow. Tusser.
  • SALLOWISH
    Somewhat sallow. Dickens.
  • WALLOWER
    A lantern wheel; a trundle. (more info) 1. One who, or that which, wallows.
  • MALLOWWORT
    Any plant of the order Malvaceæ.
  • SWALLOWFISH
    The European sapphirine gurnard . It has large pectoral fins.
  • TALLOW-FACED
    Having a sickly complexion; pale. Burton.
  • TALLOWY
    Of the nature of tallow; resembling tallow; greasy.
  • UNHALLOWED
    Not consecrated; hence, profane; unholy; impious; wicked. In the cause of truth, no unhallowed violence . . . is either necessary or admissible. E. D. Griffin.
  • FALLOW
    Left untilled or unsowed after plowing; uncultivated; as, fallow ground. Fallow chat, Fallow finch , a small European bird, the wheatear . See Wheatear. (more info) vaal fallow, faded, OHG. falo, G. falb, fahl, Icel. fölr, and prob. to Lith.
  • SWALLOW
    Any one of numerous species of passerine birds of the family Hirundinidæ, especially one of those species in which the tail is deeply forked. They have long, pointed wings, and are noted for the swiftness and gracefulness of their flight. Note:
  • GALLOW
    To fright or terrify. See Gally, v. t. Shak.
  • WALLOW
    1. To roll one's self about, as in mire; to tumble and roll about; to move lazily or heavily in any medium; to flounder; as, swine wallow in the mire. I may wallow in the lily beds. Shak. 2. To live in filth or gross vice; to disport one's self
  • SCAPEGALLOWS
    One who has narrowly escaped the gallows for his crimes. Dickens.

 

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