Word Meanings - MIDSHIPMAN - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Formerly, a kind of naval cadet, in a ship of war, whose business was to carry orders, messages, reports, etc., between the officers of the quarter-deck and those of the forecastle, and render other services as required.

• Quarterfoil
  An ornamental foliation having four lobes, or foils.
• Renderer
  One who renders.
• QUARTERSAW
  To saw (a log) into quarters; specif., to saw into quarters and then into boards, as by cutting alternately from each face of a quarter, to secure lumber that will warp relatively little or show the grain advantageously.
• Quarterhung
  Having trunnions the axes of which lie below the bore; -- said of a cannon.
• Requirable
  Capable of being required; proper to be required.
• SERVICESERVICE
  A name given to several trees and shrubs of the genus Pyrus, as Pyrus domestica and P. torminalis of Europe, the various species of mountain ash or rowan tree, and the American shad bush (see Shad bush, under Shad). They have clusters of small, edible,
• Othergates
  In another manner.
• Quarterly
  Containing, or consisting of, a fourth part; as, quarterly seasons.
• Required
  of Require
• Businesses
  of Business
• Otherguise
  Alt. of Otherguess
• Quarterlies
  of Quarterly
• Requiring
  of Require
• Business
  That which busies one, or that which engages the time, attention, or labor of any one, as his principal concern or interest, whether for a longer or shorter time; constant employment; regular occupation; as, the business of life; business before p
• Otherguess
  Of another kind or sort; in another way.
• Quartermaster
  An officer whose duty is to provide quarters, provisions, storage, clothing, fuel, stationery, and transportation for a regiment or other body of troops, and superintend the supplies.
• Require
  To demand; to insist upon having; to claim as by right and authority; to exact; as, to require the surrender of property.

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