·add. ·- A very fast, unarmored, lightly armed vessel designed to capture or destroy merchant vessels of an enemy. Not being intended to fight, they may be improvised from fast passenger steamers.
·noun Sexual intercourse. II. Commerce ·vi To carry on trade; to <<Traffic>>. III. Commerce ·vi To...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
Was not much practised by the Romans. The principal objects of their water-carriage were the supply ...
The Sailor's Word-Book
From the time that men began to live in cities, trade, in some shape, must have been carried on to s...
William Smith's Bible Dictionary
·add. ·noun = Torpedo-boat destroyer. II. Destroyer ·noun One who destroys, ruins, kills, or desola...
(Ex. 12:23), the agent employed in the killing of the first-born; the destroying angel or messenger ...
Easton's Bible Dictionary
·noun One who destroys himself; a suicide. ...
·add. ·- A larger, swifter, and more powerful armed type of torpedo boat, originally intended princi...