A vessel with a bad name for tyranny.
·adv & ·adj Borne on the water; floating; on board ship. II. Afloat ·adv & ·adj Unfixed; moving wit...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
Borne up and supported by the water; buoyed clear of the ground; also used for being on board ship. ...
The Sailor's Word-Book
·vt A gambling house. II. Hell ·vt To <<Overwhelm>>. III. Hell ·vt A place where outcast persons o...
Derived from the Saxon helan, to cover; hence the covered or the invisible place. In Scripture there...
Easton's Bible Dictionary
A taylor's repository for his stolen goods, called cabbage: see CABBAGE. Little hell; a small dark c...
Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
In the Old Testament this is the word generally and unfortunately used by our translators to render ...
William Smith's Bible Dictionary
Pulling out a grounded boat. ...
A sailor. Euripides used almost the same term in floater, for a seaman. ...
·noun A witch; a hag. ...
·noun The <<Dabchick>>. ...
·adj Haunted by devils; hellish. ...
The hulks. ...
A termagant, a vixen, a furious scolding woman. See termagant and vixen. ...
A wicked abandoned fellow. ...
The dockyard officer in charge of the shipwrights working on board a ship not in dock. ...
A lewd graceless youth, one naturally of a wicked disposition. ...
The Cambridge driver of the Telegraph. The favorite companion of the University fashionables, and th...