vice-consul

The Sailor's Word-Book

An officer appointed in sea-ports to aid the consul in affairs relating to merchant vessels. If there be a resident consul, the vice-consul is appointed and paid by him. Vice-consuls wait on commanders, consuls on captains, captains on consuls-general the naval authority providing boats.

Related Words

consul
consul (in the oldest inscrr. CONSOL, COSOL; abbrev. COS., also in plur. COSS., not before the tim...

A New Latin Dictionary by Charlton T. Lewis Ph.D. and Charles Short, LL. D.
consul
cōnsul ulis, m com-+2 SAL-, a consul ; the highest magistracy of the Roman republic was vested in ...

An Elementary Latin Dictionary
Consul
·noun A senator; a counselor. II. Consul ·noun One of the two chief magistrates of the republic. I...

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
consul
An officer established by a commission from the crown, in all foreign countries of any considerable ...

The Sailor's Word-Book
vice
vĭce and vĭcem, v. vicis. ...

A New Latin Dictionary by Charlton T. Lewis Ph.D. and Charles Short, LL. D.
vice
vice, vicem see vicis. ...

An Elementary Latin Dictionary
Vice
·noun A gripe or grasp. II. Vice ·vt To hold or squeeze with a vice, or as if with a vice. III. Vi...

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
Vice-regal
·adj Of or pertaining to a viceroy or viceroyalty. ...

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
vice-admiral
The rank in the fleet next to that of an admiral; he carries his flag at the fore. ...

The Sailor's Word-Book
vice-nail
A screw. ...

The Sailor's Word-Book
vice-admiralty courts
Branches of the High Court of Admiralty, instituted for carrying on the like duties in several of ou...

The Sailor's Word-Book
register of vice-admiralty court
Not responsible for money transmitted under proper precautions, and in the usual course of business,...

The Sailor's Word-Book
vice admiral of the narrow seas
A drunken man that pisses under the table into his companions' shoes. ...

Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose