Word Meanings - STUNSAIL - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A contraction of Studding sail. With every rag set, stunsails, sky scrapers and all. Lowell.

Related words: (words related to STUNSAIL)

• EVERYWHERENESS
  Ubiquity; omnipresence. Grew.
• EVERYWHERE
  In every place; in all places; hence, in every part; throughly; altogether.
• STUDDERY
  A stud, or collection of breeding horses and mares; also, a place for keeping a stud. King Henry the Eighth erected a noble studdery. Holinshed.
• CONTRACTION
  The process of shortening an operation. 3. The act of incurring or becoming subject to, as liabilities, obligation, debts, etc.; the process of becoming subject to; as, the contraction of a disease. 4. Something contracted or abbreviated, as a word
• STUDDING SAIL
  A light sail set at the side of a principal or square sail of a vessel in free winds, to increase her speed. Its head is bent to a small spar which is called the studding-sail boom. See Illust. of Sail. Toten.
• EVERYONE
  Everybody; -- commonly separated, every one.
• EVERYDAY
  Used or fit for every day; common; usual; as, an everyday suit or clothes. The mechanical drudgery of his everyday employment. Sir. J. Herchel.
• EVERYBODY
  Every person.
• EVERYWHEN
  At any or all times; every instant. "Eternal law is silently present everywhere and everywhen." Carlyle.
• EVERYTHING
  Whatever pertains to the subject under consideration; all things. More wise, more learned, more just, more everything. Pope.
• STUDDING
  Material for studs, or joists; studs, or joists, collectively; studs.
• EVERY
  1. All the parts which compose a whole collection or aggregate number, considered in their individuality, all taken separately one by one, out of an indefinite bumber. Every man at his best state is altogether vanity. Ps. xxxix. 5. Every door and
• REVERY
  See REVERIE
• EVERICH; EVERYCH
  each one; every one; each of two. See Every. Chaucer.
• FEVERY
  Feverish. B. Jonson.
• LOW-STUDDED
  Furnished or built with short studs; as, a low-studded house or room.
• EVERICHON; EVERYCHON
  Every one. Chaucer.
• REVERIE; REVERY
  1. A loose or irregular train of thought occurring in musing or mediation; deep musing; daydream. "Rapt in nameless reveries." Tennyson. When ideas float in our mind without any reflection or regard of the understanding, it is that which the French
• THIEVERY
  1. The practice of stealing; theft; thievishness. Among the Spartans, thievery was a practice morally good and honest. South. 2. That which is stolen. Shak.