Word Meanings - ROWBOAT - Book Publishers vocabulary database
A boat designed to be propelled by oars instead of sails.
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- DESIGN
drawing, dessein a plan or scheme; all, ultimately, from L. designare to designate; de- + signare to mark, mark out, signum mark, sign. See 1. To draw preliminary outline or main features of; to sketch for a pattern or model; to delineate; to trace - PROPELLER
1. One who, or that which, propels. 2. A contrivance for propelling a steam vessel, usually consisting of a screw placed in the stern under water, and made to revolve by an engine; a propeller wheel. 3. A steamboat thus propelled; a screw steamer. - DESIGNATE
Designated; appointed; chosen. Sir G. Buck. - INSTEAD
1. In the place or room; -- usually followed by of. Let thistles grow of wheat. Job xxxi. 40. Absalom made Amasa captain of the host instead of Joab. 2 Sam. xvii. - DESIGNATOR
An officer who assigned to each his rank and place in public shows and ceremonies. 2. One who designates. - DESIGNATIVE
Serving to designate or indicate; pointing out. - DESIGNFUL
Full of design; scheming. -- De*sign"ful*ness, n. Barrow. - DESIGNEDLY
By design; purposely; intentionally; -- opposed to accidentally, ignorantly, or inadvertently. - DESIGNLESS
Without design. -- De*sign"less*ly, adv. - DESIGNER
One who produces or creates original works of art or decoration. 3. A plotter; a schemer; -- used in a bad sense. (more info) 1. One who designs, marks out, or plans; a contriver. - DESIGNING
Intriguing; artful; scheming; as, a designing man. - DESIGNMENT
1. Delineation; sketch; design; ideal; invention. For though that some mean artist's skill were shown In mingling colors, or in placing light, Yet still the fair designment was his own. Dryden. 2. Design; purpose; scheme. Shak. - DESIGNABLE
Capable of being designated or distinctly marked out; distinguishable. Boyle. - DESIGNATORY
Serving to designate; designative; indicating. - DESIGNATION
1. The act of designating; a pointing out or showing; indication. 2. Selection and appointment for a purpose; allotment; direction. 3. That which designates; a distinguishing mark or name; distinctive title; appellation. The usual designation of - FOREDESIGN
To plan beforehand; to intend previously. Cheyne. - PREDESIGNATE
A term used by Sir William Hamilton to define propositions having their quantity indicated by a verbal sign; as, all, none, etc.; -- contrasted with preindesignate, defining propositions of which the quantity is not so indicated. - UNDESIGNING
Having no artful, ulterior, or fraudulent purpose; sincere; artless; simple. - PREDESIGN
To design or purpose beforehand; to predetermine. Mitford. - PREINDESIGNATE
Having no sign expressive of quantity; indefinite. See Predesignate. - TRACTOR SCREW; TRACTOR PROPELLER
A propeller screw placed in front of the supporting planes of an aƫroplane instead of behind them, so that it exerts a pull instead of a push. Hence, Tractor monoplane, Tractor biplane, etc.