Word Meanings - SKYSCRAPER - Book Publishers vocabulary database
A name for the one of the fancy sails alleged to have been sometimes set above the skysail. A very tall building. (more info) A skysail of a triangular form.
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- SKYSAIL
The sail set next above the royal. See Illust. under Sail. - SOMETIMES
1. Formerly; sometime. That fair and warlike form In which the majesty of buried Denmark Did sometimes march. Shak. 2. At times; at intervals; now and then;occasionally. It is good that we sometimes be contradicted. Jer. Taylor. Sometimes . . . - ALLEGIANT
Loyal. Shak. - ALLEGORIC; ALLEGORICAL
Belonging to, or consisting of, allegory; of the nature of an allegory; describing by resemblances; figurative. "An allegoric tale." Falconer. "An allegorical application." Pope. Allegorical being . . . that kind of language which says one thing, - TRIANGULAR
Oblong or elongated, and having three lateral angles; as, a triangular seed, leaf, or stem. Triangular compasses, compasses with three legs for taking off the angular points of a triangle, or any three points at the same time. -- Triangular crab - FANCYWORK
Ornamental work with a needle or hook, as embroidery, crocheting, netting, etc. - ALLEGORIZATION
The act of turning into allegory, or of understanding in an allegorical sense. - ALLEGORIZER
One who allegorizes, or turns things into allegory; an allegorist. - ALLEGORIST
One who allegorizes; a writer of allegory. Hume. - FANCYMONGER
A lovemonger; a whimsical lover. Shak. - ABOVEBOARD
Above the board or table. Hence: in open sight; without trick, concealment, or deception. "Fair and aboveboard." Burke. Note: This expression is said by Johnson to have been borrowed from gamesters, who, when they change their cards, put their hands - ALLEGE
prop. to free from legal difficulties, fr. an assumed LL. exlitigare; L. ex + litigare to quarrel, sue . The word was 1. To bring forward with positiveness; to declare; to affirm; to assert; as, to allege a fact. 2. To cite or quote; as, to allege - ALLEGEABLE
Capable of being alleged or affirmed. The most authentic examples allegeable in the case. South. - ABOVESAID
Mentioned or recited before. - FANCY
fantaisie, F. fantaisie, L. phantasia, fr. Gr. bhato shine. Cf. 1. The faculty by which the mind forms an image or a representation of anything perceived before; the power of combining and modifying such objects into new pictures or images; the - ABOVE-MENTIONED; ABOVE-NAMED
Mentioned or named before; aforesaid. - TRIANGULARES
The triangular, or maioid, crabs. See Illust. under Maioid, and Illust. of Spider crab, under Spider. - ALLEGORY
A figure representation which has a meaning beyond notion directly conveyed by the object painted or sculptured. Syn. -- Metaphor; fable. -- Allegory, Parable. "An allegory differs both from fable and parable, in that the properties of persons are - ALLEGATION
A statement by a party of what he undertakes to prove, -- usually applied to each separate averment; the charge or matter undertaken to be proved. (more info) send a message, cite; later, to free by giving reasons; ad + legare 1. The - ALLEGORIZE
1. To form or turn into allegory; as, to allegorize the history of a people. 2. To treat as allegorical; to understand in an allegorical sense; as, when a passage in a writer may understood literally or figuratively, he who gives it a figurative - DISFANCY
To dislike. - SHIPBUILDER
A person whose occupation is to construct ships and other vessels; a naval architect; a shipwright. - INFANCY
The state or condition of one under age, or under the age of twenty-one years; nonage; minority. (more info) 1. The state or period of being an infant; the first part of life; early childhood. The babe yet lies in smiling infancy. Milton. Their - OUTBUILD
To exceed in building, or in durability of building. - GALLEGAN; GALLEGO
A native or inhabitant of Galicia, in Spain; a Galician. - OVERBUILD
1. To build over. Milton. 2. To build too much; to build beyond the demand. - UNDERBUILDER
A subordinate or assistant builder. An underbuilder in the house of God. Jer. Taylor.