Word Meanings - MIZZENMAST - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The hindmost mast of a three-masted vessel, or of a yawl-rigged vessel.

• Three-piled
  Having the quality of three-pile; best; most costly.
• THREECOLOR
  Designating, or pert. to, a photomechanical process employing printings in three colors, as red, yellow, and blue.
• THREESQUARE
  Having a cross section in the form of an equilateral triangle; -- said especially of a kind of file.
• Masterly
  Suitable to, or characteristic of, a master; indicating thorough knowledge or superior skill and power; showing a master's hand; as, a masterly design; a masterly performance; a masterly policy.
• Masticate
  To grind or crush with, or as with, the teeth and prepare for swallowing and digestion; to chew; as, to masticate food.
• Mastlin
  See Maslin.
• Three-ply
  Consisting of three distinct webs inwrought together in weaving, as cloth or carpeting; having three strands; threefold.
• THREECORNERED
  Having three prominent longitudinal angles; as, a three- cornered stem.
• THREETORQUESYSTEMOFCONTROL
  Any system of rudders by which the pilot can exert a turning moment about each of the three rectangular axes of an aëroplane or airship.
• Masterous
  Masterly.
• Masticater
  One who masticates.
• Mastodon
  An extinct genus of mammals closely allied to the elephant, but having less complex molar teeth, and often a pair of lower, as well as upper, tusks, which are incisor teeth. The species were mostly larger than elephants, and their romains occur in
• Three-coat
  Having or consisting of three coats; -- applied to plastering which consists of pricking-up, floating, and a finishing coat; or, as called in the United States, a scratch coat, browning, and finishing coat.
• Three-pointed
  Having three acute or setigerous points; tricuspidate.
• THREEDECKER
  A vessel of war carrying guns on three decks.
• THREEVALVED
  Consisting of, or having, three valves; opening with three valves; as, a three-valved pericarp.
• Hindmost
  Furthest in or toward the rear; last.
• Masterpiece
  Anything done or made with extraordinary skill; a capital performance; a chef-d'oeuvre; a supreme achievement.

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