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Word Meanings - STOWAWAY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

One who conceals himself board of a vessel about to leave port, or on a railway train, in order to obtain a free passage.

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  • LEAVE-TAKING
    Taking of leave; parting compliments. Shak.
  • LEAVED
    Bearing, or having, a leaf or leaves; having folds; -- used in combination; as, a four-leaved clover; a two-leaved gate; long- leaved.
  • ABOUT
    On the point or verge of; going; in act of. Paul was now aboutto open his mouth. Acts xviii. 14. 7. Concerning; with regard to; on account of; touching. "To treat about thy ransom." Milton. She must have her way about Sarah. Trollope. (more info)
  • OBTAINABLE
    Capable of being obtained.
  • TRAINING
    The act of one who trains; the act or process of exercising, disciplining, etc.; education. Fan training , the operation of training fruit trees, grapevines, etc., so that the branches shall radiate from the stem like a fan. -- Horizontal training
  • TRAINABLE
    Capable of being trained or educated; as, boys trainable to virtue. Richardson.
  • LEAVENING
    1. The act of making light, or causing to ferment, by means of leaven. 2. That which leavens or makes light. Bacon.
  • ORDERLY
    1. Conformed to order; in order; regular; as, an orderly course or plan. Milton. 2. Observant of order, authority, or rule; hence, obedient; quiet; peaceable; not unruly; as, orderly children; an orderly community. 3. Performed in good
  • PASSAGEWAY
    A way for passage; a hall. See Passage, 5.
  • LEAVELESS
    Leafless. Carew.
  • VESSELFUL
    As much as a vessel will hold; enough to fill a vessel.
  • PASSAGE
    1. The act of passing; transit from one place to another; movement from point to point; a going by, over, across, or through; as, the passage of a man or a carriage; the passage of a ship or a bird; the passage of light; the passage of
  • TRAINER
    1. One who trains; an instructor; especially, one who trains or prepares men, horses, etc., for exercises requiring physical agility and strength. 2. A militiaman when called out for exercise or discipline. Bartlett.
  • LEAVEN
    alleviation, mitigation; but taken in the sense of, a raising, that 1. Any substance that produces, or is designed to produce, fermentation, as in dough or liquids; esp., a portion of fermenting dough, which, mixed with a larger quantity of dough,
  • BOARDER
    One who boards a ship; one selected to board an enemy's ship. Totten. (more info) 1. One who has food statedly at another's table, or meals and lodgings in his house, for pay, or compensation of any kind.
  • TRAIN DISPATCHER
    An official who gives the orders on a railroad as to the running of trains and their right of way.
  • HIMSELF
    1. An emphasized form of the third person masculine pronoun; -- used as a subject usually with he; as, he himself will bear the blame; used alone in the predicate, either in the nominative or objective case; as, it is himself who saved himself.
  • TRAINBEARER
    One who holds up a train, as of a robe.
  • TRAIN
    To lead or direct, and form to a wall or espalier; to form to a proper shape, by bending, lopping, or pruning; as, to train young trees. He trained the young branches to the right hand or to the left. Jeffrey. (more info) 1. To draw along;
  • ORDERLINESS
    The state or quality of being orderly.
  • BELEAVE
    To leave or to be left. May.
  • STRAINABLE
    1. Capable of being strained. 2. Violent in action. Holinshed.
  • SIDEBOARD
    A piece of dining-room furniture having compartments and shelves for keeping or displaying articles of table service. At a stately sideboard, by the wine, That fragrant smell diffused. Milton.
  • WEATHERBOARDING
    The covering or siding of a building, formed of boards lapping over one another, to exclude rain, snow, etc. Boards adapted or intended for such use.
  • SPRINGBOARD
    An elastic board, secured at the ends, or at one end, often by elastic supports, used in performing feats of agility or in exercising.
  • CHESSBOARD
    The board used in the game of chess, having eight rows of alternate light and dark squares, eight in each row. See Checkerboard. Note: The chessboard and the checkerboard are alike.
  • RESTRAINABLE
    Capable of being restrained; controllable. Sir T. Browne.
  • IMBORDER
    To furnish or inclose with a border; to form a border of. Milton.
  • ROUNDABOUTNESS
    The quality of being roundabout; circuitousness.
  • DISTRAINER
    See DISTRAINOR
  • HALF-STRAINED
    Half-bred; imperfect. "A half-strained villain." Dryden.
  • MISORDER
    To order ill; to manage erroneously; to conduct badly. Shak.
  • ABOARD
    On board; into or within a ship or boat; hence, into or within a railway car. 2. Alongside; as, close aboard. Naut.: To fall aboard of, to strike a ship's side; to fall foul of. -- To haul the tacks aboard, to set the courses. -- To keep the land
  • REOBTAINABLE
    That may be reobtained.
  • WASTEBOARD
    See 3
  • CLEAVER
    One who cleaves, or that which cleaves; especially, a butcher's instrument for cutting animal bodies into joints or pieces.
  • UPTRAIN
    To train up; to educate. "Daughters which were well uptrained." Spenser.

 

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