Definition of ship

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Ship (n.) Specifically, a vessel furnished with a bowsprit and three masts (a mainmast, a foremast, and a mizzenmast), each of which is composed of a lower mast, a topmast, and a topgallant mast, and square-rigged on all masts. See Illustation in Appendix..

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Removed :: Removed (a.) Distant by degrees in relationship; as, a cousin once removed..
Stern :: Stern (v. t.) The after or rear end of a ship or other vessel, or of a boat; the part opposite to the stem, or prow..
Midshipman :: Midshipman (n.) An American marine fish of the genus Porichthys, allied to the toadfish..
Flute :: Flute (n.) A kind of flyboat; a storeship.
Fathership :: Fathership (n.) The state of being a father; fatherhood; paternity.
Tender :: Tender (superl.) Physically weak; not hardly or able to endure hardship; immature; effeminate.
Low-churchmanship :: Low-churchmanship (n.) The state of being a low-churchman.
Assessorship :: Assessorship (n.) The office or function of an assessor.
Transport :: Transport (v.) A vessel employed for transporting, especially for carrying soldiers, warlike stores, or provisions, from one place to another, or to convey convicts to their destination; -- called also transport ship, transport vessel..
Prebendaryship :: Prebendaryship (n.) The office of a prebendary.
Teredo :: Teredo (n.) A genus of long, slender, wormlike bivalve mollusks which bore into submerged wood, such as the piles of wharves, bottoms of ships, etc.; -- called also shipworm. See Shipworm. See Illust. in App..
Envelop :: Envelop (v. t.) To put a covering about; to wrap up or in; to inclose within a case, wrapper, integument or the like; to surround entirely; as, to envelop goods or a letter; the fog envelops a ship..
Disembark :: Disembark (v. i.) To go ashore out of a ship or boat; to leave a ship; to debark.
Sergeantship :: Sergeantship (n.) The office of sergeant.
Average :: Average (n.) Any charge in addition to the regular charge for freight of goods shipped.
Forge :: Forge (v. t.) To move heavily and slowly, as a ship after the sails are furled; to work one's way, as one ship in outsailing another; -- used especially in the phrase to forge ahead..
Cradle :: Cradle (n.) The basket or apparatus in which, when a line has been made fast to a wrecked ship from the shore, the people are brought off from the wreck..
Under :: Under (prep.) Denoting relation to something that comprehends or includes, that represents or designates, that furnishes a cover, pretext, pretense, or the like; as, he betrayed him under the guise of friendship; Morpheus is represented under the figure of a boy asleep..
Ichthyolatry :: Ichthyolatry (n.) Worship of fishes, or of fish-shaped idols..
Ledge :: Ledge (n.) A piece of timber to support the deck, placed athwartship between beams..
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