Word Meanings - HYDROPLANE - Book Publishers vocabulary database
1. A plane, or any of a number of planes, projecting from the hull of a submarine boat, which by being elevated or depressed cause the boat, when going ahead, to sink or rise, after the manner of an aëroplane. 2. A projecting plane or fin on
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1. A plane, or any of a number of planes, projecting from the hull of a submarine boat, which by being elevated or depressed cause the boat, when going ahead, to sink or rise, after the manner of an aëroplane. 2. A projecting plane or fin on a gliding boat to lift the moving boat on top of the water; also, a gliding boat.
Related words: (words related to HYDROPLANE)
- GOAL
Fries. walu staff, stick, rod, Goth. walus, Icel. völr a round stick; 1. The mark set to bound a race, and to or around which the constestants run, or from which they start to return to it again; the place at which a race or a journey is to end. - BELLMAN
A man who rings a bell, especially to give notice of anything in the streets. Formerly, also, a night watchman who called the hours. Milton. - BESCRATCH
To tear with the nails; to cover with scratches. - BELIAL
An evil spirit; a wicked and unprincipled person; the personification of evil. What concord hath Christ with Belia 2 Cor. vi. 15. A son of Belial, a worthless, wicked, or thoroughly depraved person. 1 Sam. ii. 12. - GOROON SHELL
A large, handsome, marine, univalve shell . - BEASTLIHEAD
Beastliness. Spenser. - BEWRAP
To wrap up; to cover. Fairfax. - GOOD-HUMORED
Having a cheerful spirit and demeanor; good-tempered. See Good- natured. - GOOSEFOOT
A genus of herbs mostly annual weeds; pigweed. - BERGOMASK
A rustic dance, so called in ridicule of the people of Bergamo, in Italy, once noted for their clownishness. - BELEAVE
To leave or to be left. May. - BESCATTER
1. To scatter over. 2. To cover sparsely by scattering ; to strew. "With flowers bescattered." Spenser. - GOLD; GOLDE; GOOLDE
An old English name of some yellow flower, -- the marigold , according to Dr. Prior, but in Chaucer perhaps the turnsole. - BEVELMENT
The replacement of an edge by two similar planes, equally inclined to the including faces or adjacent planes. - CAUSEFUL
Having a cause. - BESCORN
To treat with scorn. "Then was he bescorned." Chaucer. - BETSO
A small brass Venetian coin. - GOOSERY
1. A place for keeping geese. 2. The characteristics or actions of a goose; silliness. The finical goosery of your neat sermon actor. Milton. - GORGONIACEA
One of the principal divisions of Alcyonaria, including those forms which have a firm and usually branched axis, covered with a porous crust, or c Note: The axis is commonly horny, but it may be solid and stony , as in the red coral of commerce, - BETOKEN
1. To signify by some visible object; to show by signs or tokens. A dewy cloud, and in the cloud a bow . . . Betokening peace from God, and covenant new. Milton. 2. To foreshow by present signs; to indicate something future by that which is seen - COMBER
1. One who combs; one whose occupation it is to comb wool, flax, etc. Also, a machine for combing wool, flax, etc. 2. A long, curling wave. - GABBER
1. A liar; a deceiver. 2. One addicted to idle talk. - MYSTAGOGY
The doctrines, principles, or practice of a mystagogue; interpretation of mysteries. - HAIRBELL
See HAREBELL - RUBIGO
same as Rust, n., 2. - STEATOPYGOUS
Having fat buttocks. Specimens of the steatopygous Abyssinian breed. Burton. - ISAGOGE
An introduction. Harris. - ORBED
Having the form of an orb; round. The orbèd eyelids are let down. Trench. - SYRINGOCOELE
The central canal of the spinal cord. B. G. Wilder. - GERBE
A kind of ornamental firework. Farrow. - LAMBERT PINE
The gigantic sugar pine of California and Oregon (Pinus Lambertiana). It has the leaves in fives, and cones a foot long. The timber is soft, and like that of the white pine of the Eastern States. - AGOUARA
The crab-eating raccoon , found in the tropical parts of America. - WATER-BEARER
The constellation Aquarius.