Word Meanings - TOPGALLANT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Situated above the topmast and below the royal mast; designatb, or pertaining to, the third spars in order from the deck; as, the topgallant mast, yards, braces, and the like. See Illustration of Ship. 2. Fig.: Highest; elevated; splendid. "The

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Situated above the topmast and below the royal mast; designatb, or pertaining to, the third spars in order from the deck; as, the topgallant mast, yards, braces, and the like. See Illustration of Ship. 2. Fig.: Highest; elevated; splendid. "The consciences of topgallant sparks." L'Estrange. Topgallant breeze, a breeze in which the topgallant sails may properly be carried.

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• THIRD
  The third tone of the scale; the mediant. 4. pl. (more info) 1. The quotient of a unit divided by three; one of three equal parts into which anything is divided. 2. The sixtieth part of a second of time.
• SPLENDIDIOUS
  Splendid.
• ROYALIZE
  to make royal. Shak.
• SPARSELY
  In a scattered or sparse manner.
• THIRDLY
  In the third place. Bacon.
• SITUATE
  To place. Landor.
• SPLENDIDLY
  In a splendid manner; magnificently.
• 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
• ROYALIZATION
  The act of making loyal to a king. Saintsbury.
• ABOVESAID
  Mentioned or recited before.
• ELEVATOR
  One who, or that which, raises or lifts up anything; as: A mechanical contrivance, usually an endless belt or chain with a series of scoops or buckets, for transferring grain to an upper loft for storage. A cage or platform and the hoisting
• 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
• SPARSIM
  Sparsely; scatteredly; here and there.
• SITUATE; SITUATED
  1. Having a site, situation, or location; being in a relative position; permanently fixed; placed; located; as, a town situated, or situate, on a hill or on the seashore. 2. Placed; residing. Pleasure situate in hill and dale. Milton. Note: Situate
• ABOVE-MENTIONED; ABOVE-NAMED
  Mentioned or named before; aforesaid.
• PERTAIN
  stretch out, reach, pertain; per + tenere to hold, keep. See Per-, 1. To belong; to have connection with, or dependence on, something, as an appurtenance, attribute, etc.; to appertain; as, saltness pertains to the ocean; flowers pertain to plant
• TOPGALLANT
  A topgallant mast or sail. 2. Fig.: Anything elevated or splendid. Bacon.
• YARDSTICK
  A stick three feet, or a yard, in length, used as a measure of cloth, etc.
• THIRDINGS
  The third part of the corn or grain growing on the ground at the tenant's death, due to the lord for a heriot, as within the manor of Turfat in Herefordshire.
• ILLUSTRATION
  1. The act of illustrating; the act of making clear and distinct; education; also, the state of being illustrated, or of being made clear and distinct. 2. That which illustrates; a comparison or example intended to make clear or apprehensible,
• SUPERROYAL
  Larger than royal; -- said of a particular size of printing and writing paper. See the Note under Paper, n.
• IMBORDER
  To furnish or inclose with a border; to form a border of. Milton.
• FORE-TOPMAST
  The mast erected at the head of the foremast, and at the head of which stands the fore-topgallant mast. See Ship.
• MISORDER
  To order ill; to manage erroneously; to conduct badly. Shak.
• ACCORDER
  One who accords, assents, or concedes.
• PENNYROYAL
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