Word Meanings - ICE-BUILT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. Composed of ice. 2. Loaded with ice. "Ice-built mountains." Gray.

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• COMPOSITOUS
  Belonging to the Compositæ; composite. Darwin.
• COMPOSURE
  1. The act of composing, or that which is composed; a composition. Signor Pietro, who had an admirable way both of composure and teaching. Evelyn. 2. Orderly adjustment; disposition. Various composures and combinations of these corpuscles.
• COMPOSSIBLE
  Able to exist with another thing; consistent. Chillingworth.
• COMPOSE
  To arrange in a composing stick in order for printing; to set . (more info) 1. To form by putting together two or more things or parts; to put together; to make up; to fashion. Zeal ought to be composed of the hidhest degrees of all
• COMPOSER
  1. One who composes; an author. Specifically, an author of a piece of music. If the thoughts of such authors have nothing in them, they at least . . . show an honest industry and a good intention in the composer. Addison. His most brilliant and
• COMPOSITE
  Belonging to a certain order which is composed of the Ionic order grafted upon the Corinthian. It is called also the Roman or the Italic order, and is one of the five orders recognized by the Italian writers of the sixteenth century. See Capital.
• BUILT
  Shape; build; form of structure; as, the built of a ship. Dryden.
• LOADSTAR; LODESTAR
  A star that leads; a guiding star; esp., the polestar; the cynosure. Chaucer. " Your eyes are lodestars." Shak. The pilot can no loadstar see. Spenser.
• COMPOSTURE
  Manure; compost. Shak.
• LOADSTONE; LODESTONE
  A piece of magnetic iron ore possessing polarity like a magnetic needle. See Magnetite.
• COMPOSITAE
  A large family of dicotyledonous plants, having their flowers arranged in dense heads of many small florets and their anthers united in a tube. The daisy, dandelion, and asters, are examples.
• LOADMANAGE; LODEMANAGE
  Pilotage; skill of a pilot or loadsman. Chaucer.
• LOADER
  One who, or that which, loads; a mechanical contrivance for loading, as a gun.
• LOAD
  The work done by a steam engine or other prime mover when working. Load line, or Load water line , the line on the outside of a vessel indicating the depth to which it sinks in the water when loaded. Syn. -- Burden; lading; weight; cargo.
• COMPOS-MENTIS
  One who is compos mentis.
• COMPOSED
  Free from agitation; calm; sedate; quiet; tranquil; self- possessed. The Mantuan there in sober triumph sate, Composed his posture, and his look sedate. Pope. -- Com*pos"ed*ly (, adv. -- Com*pos"ed*ness, n.
• LOADING
  1. The act of putting a load on or into. 2. A load; cargo; burden. Shak.
• LOADSMAN; LODESMAN
  A pilot. Chaucer.
• COMPOSING
  1. Tending to compose or soothe. 2. Pertaining to, or used in, composition. Composing frame , a stand for holding cases of type when in use. -- Composing rule , a thin slip of brass or steel, against which the type is arranged in a composing
• COMPOSITIVE
  Having the quality of entering into composition; compounded.
• INDECOMPOSABLENESS
  Incapableness of decomposition; stability; permanence; durability.
• SURFACE LOADING
  The weight supported per square unit of surface; the quotient obtained by dividing the gross weight, in pounds, of a fully loaded flying machine, by the total area, in square feet, of its supporting surface.
• DECOMPOSE
  To separate the constituent parts of; to resolve into original elements; to set free from previously existing forms of chemical combination; to bring to dissolution; to rot or decay.
• DECOMPOSITION
  1. The act or process of resolving the constituent parts of a compound body or substance into its elementary parts; separation into constituent part; analysis; the decay or dissolution consequent on the removal or alteration of some of
• RELOAD
  To load again, as a gun.
• JERRY-BUILT
  Built hastily and of bad materials; as, jerry-built houses.
• BREECH-LOADING
  Receiving the charge at the breech instead of at the muzzle.
• ICE-BUILT
  1. Composed of ice. 2. Loaded with ice. "Ice-built mountains." Gray.
• UNLOAD
  1. To take the load from; to discharge of a load or cargo; to disburden; as, to unload a ship; to unload a beast. 2. Hence, to relieve from anything onerous. 3. To discharge or remove, as a load or a burden; as, to unload the cargo of a vessel.
• MUZZLE-LOADING
  Receiving its charge through the muzzle; as, a muzzle-loading rifle.
• UNDERLOAD STARTER
  A motor starter provided with an underload switch.