Word Meanings - BATTLESHIP - Book Publishers vocabulary database

An armor-plated man-of-war built of steel and heavily armed, generally having from ten thousand to fifteen thousand tons displacement, and intended to be fit to meet the heaviest ships in line of battle.

• STEELBOWGOODS
  Those goods on a farm, such as corn, cattle, implements husbandry, etc., which may not be carried off by a removing tenant, as being the property of the landlord.
• Intendiment
  Attention; consideration; knowledge; understanding.
• Plateful
  Enough to fill a plate; as much as a plate will hold.
• Platinized
  of Platinize
• Armful
  As much as the arm can hold.
• Platly
  Flatly. See Plat, a.
• Armisonant
  Alt. of Armisonous
• Platter
  One who plats or braids.
• Armory
  A place where arms and instruments of war are deposited for safe keeping.
• Platyrhine
  Having the nose broad; -- opposed to leptorhine.
• Battlemented
  Having battlements.
• ARMGRET
  Great as a man's arm. [Obs.] A wreath of gold, arm-gret. Chaucer.
• Haversack
  A bag for oats or oatmeal.
• THOUSANDLEGS
  A millepid, or galleyworm; -- called also thousand-legged worm.
• Intendment
  Charge; oversight.
• Plate-gilled
  Having flat, or leaflike, gills, as the bivalve mollusks.
• Platinizing
  of Platinize
• Armgaunt
  With gaunt or slender legs. (?)
• Platness
  Flatness.

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