The dockyard name given to the person who constructs a ship of the navy.
·noun A senator of ancient Rome. II. Father ·vt To provide with a father. III. Father ·noun A resp...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
A name applied (1) to any ancestor (Deut. 1:11; 1 Kings 15:11; Matt. 3:9; 23:30, etc.); and (2) as a...
Easton's Bible Dictionary
The position and authority of the father as the head of the family are expressly assumed and sanctio...
William Smith's Bible Dictionary
·- ·see Daddy longlegs, 2. ...
·noun A European marine fish (Cottus bubalis), allied to the sculpin; — called also lucky proach. ...
see Mahony, Francis Sylvester. ...
Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature by John W. Cousin
A butcher's boy of St. Patrick's Market, Dublin, or other Irish blackguard; among whom the exclamati...
Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
A name of the scorpius or scorpion, Cottus scorpius, a fish about 9 inches long, common near rocky c...
The Sailor's Word-Book
·noun The father of one's husband or wife; — correlative to son-in-law and daughter-in-law. ...