Word Meanings - WARP - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To tow or move, as a vessel, with a line, or warp, attached to a buoy, anchor, or other fixed object. 6. To cast prematurely, as young; -- said of cattle, sheep, etc. (more info) verpa to throw; akin to Dan. varpe to warp a ship, Sw. varpa, AS.

Additional info about word: WARP

To tow or move, as a vessel, with a line, or warp, attached to a buoy, anchor, or other fixed object. 6. To cast prematurely, as young; -- said of cattle, sheep, etc. (more info) verpa to throw; akin to Dan. varpe to warp a ship, Sw. varpa, AS. weorpan to cast, OS. werpan, OFries. werpa, D. & LG. werpen, G. 1. To throw; hence, to send forth, or throw out, as words; to utter. Piers Plowman. 2. To turn or twist out of shape; esp., to twist or bend out of a flat plane by contraction or otherwise. The planks looked warped. Coleridge. Walter warped his mouth at this To something so mock solemn, that I laughed. Tennyson. 3. To turn aside from the true direction; to cause to bend or incline; to pervert. This first avowed, nor folly warped my mind. Dryden. I have no private considerations to warp me in this controversy. Addison. We are divested of all those passions which cloud the intellects, and warp the understandings, of men. Southey. 4. To weave; to fabricate. Nares. While doth he mischief warp. Sternhold.

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• YOUNGISH
  Somewhat young. Tatler.
• ANCHOR
  1. To cast anchor; to come to anchor; as, our ship anchored in the stream. 2. To stop; to fix or rest. My invention . . . anchors on Isabel. Shak.
• OBJECTIVENESS
  Objectivity. Is there such a motion or objectiveness of external bodies, which produceth light Sir M. Hale
• OTHERGUISE; OTHERGUESS
  Of another kind or sort; in another way. "Otherguess arguments." Berkeley.
• ANCHORET; ANCHORITE
  One who renounces the world and secludes himself, usually for Our Savior himself . . . did not choose an anchorite's or a monastic life, but a social and affable way of conversing with mortals. Boyle.
• YOUNG
  , , AS. geong; akin to OFries. iung, iong, D. joing, OS., OHG., & G. jung, Icel. ungr, Sw. & Dan. ung, Goth. juggs, Lith. jaunas, Russ. iunuii, L. juvencus, juvenis, Skr. juva, juven. Junior, Juniper, 1. Not long born; still in the first part of
• SHEEP'S-FOOT
  A printer's tool consisting of a metal bar formed into a hammer head at one end and a claw at the other, -- used as a lever and hammer.
• OBJECTIST
  One who adheres to, or is skilled in, the objective philosophy. Ed. Rev.
• SHEEP-HEADED
  Silly; simple-minded; stupid. Taylor
• YOUNGTH
  Youth. Youngth is a bubble blown up with breath. Spenser.
• SHEEPBITER
  One who practices petty thefts. Shak. There are political sheepbiters as well as pastoral; betrayers of public trusts as well as of private. L'Estrange.
• SHEEPSKIN
  1. The skin of a sheep; or, leather prepared from it. 2. A diploma; -- so called because usually written or printed on parchment prepared from the skin of the sheep.
• THROW
  Pain; especially, pain of travail; throe. Spenser. Dryden.
• OBJECTIVATE
  To objectify.
• THROWING
  a. & n. from Throw, v. Throwing engine, Throwing mill, Throwing table, or Throwing wheel , a machine on which earthenware is first rudely shaped by the hand of the potter from a mass of clay revolving rapidly on a disk or table carried
• YOUNGNESS
  The quality or state of being young.
• FIXTURE
  Anything of an accessory character annexed to houses and lands, so as to constitute a part of them. This term is, however, quite frequently used in the peculiar sense of personal chattels annexed to lands and tenements, but removable by the person
• ANCHOR LIGHT
  The lantern shown at night by a vessel at anchor. International rules of the road require vessels at anchor to carry from sunset to sunrise a single white light forward if under 150 feet in length, and if longer, two such lights, one near the stern
• ANCHORAGE
  1. The act of anchoring, or the condition of lying at anchor. 2. A place suitable for anchoring or where ships anchor; a hold for an anchor. 3. The set of anchors belonging to a ship. 4. Something which holds like an anchor; a hold; as,
• YOUNG ONE
  A young human being; a child; also, a young animal, as a colt.
• NOTOTHERIUM
  An extinct genus of gigantic herbivorous marsupials, found in the Pliocene formation of Australia.
• OVERPATIENT
  Patient to excess.
• REFIX
  To fix again or anew; to establish anew. Fuller.
• ISOGEOTHERMAL; ISOGEOTHERMIC
  Pertaining to, having the nature of, or marking, isogeotherms; as, an isogeothermal line or surface; as isogeothermal chart. -- n.
• SMOTHER
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• YOUNGLY
  Like a young person or thing; young; youthful. Shak.
• AFFIX
  figere to fasten: cf. OE. affichen, F. afficher, ultimately fr. L. 1. To subjoin, annex, or add at the close or end; to append to; to fix to any part of; as, to affix a syllable to a word; to affix a seal to an instrument; to affix one's name to
• ISOTHEROMBROSE
  A line connecting or marking points on the earth's surface, which have the same mean summer rainfall.
• DEFIX
  To fix; to fasten; to establish. "To defix their princely seat . . . in that extreme province." Hakluyt.
• AFFIXION
  Affixture. T. Adams.
• ANOTHER-GUESS
  Of another sort. It used to go in another-guess manner. Arbuthnot.
• UNMOTHERED
  Deprived of a mother; motherless.
• ISOTHERMAL
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• EEL-MOTHER
  The eelpout.
• ISOTHERMOBATHIC
  Of or pertaining to an isothermobath; possessing or indicating equal temperatures in a vertical section, as of the ocean.