| -ship |
A suffix denoting state, office, dignity, profession, or art; as in lordship, friendship, chancellorship, stewardship, horsemanship. |
n. |
| Ship |
Pay; reward. |
n. |
| Ship |
Any large seagoing vessel. |
n. |
| Ship |
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. |
n. |
| Ship |
A dish or utensil (originally fashioned like the hull of a ship) used to hold incense. |
n. |
| Ship |
To put on board of a ship, or vessel of any kind, for transportation; to send by water. |
v. t. |
| Ship |
By extension, in commercial usage, to commit to any conveyance for transportation to a distance; as, to ship freight by railroad. |
v. t. |
| Ship |
Hence, to send away; to get rid of. |
v. t. |
| Ship |
To engage or secure for service on board of a ship; as, to ship seamen. |
v. t. |
| Ship |
To receive on board ship; as, to ship a sea. |
v. t. |
| Ship |
To put in its place; as, to ship the tiller or rudder. |
v. t. |
| Ship |
To engage to serve on board of a vessel; as, to ship on a man-of-war. |
v. i. |
| Ship |
To embark on a ship. |
v. i. |
| Ship-rigged |
Rigged like a ship, that is, having three masts, each with square sails. |
a. |
| Burgess-ship |
The state of privilege of a burgess. |
n. |
| Gauger-ship |
The office of a gauger. |
n. |
| High-churchman-ship |
The state of being a high-churchman. |
n. |
| Hostess |
A female host; a woman who hospitably entertains guests at her house. |
n. |
| Hostess |
A woman who entertains guests for compensation; a female innkeeper. |
n. |
| Light-ship |
A vessel carrying at the masthead a brilliant light, and moored off a shoal or place of dangerous navigation as a guide for mariners. |
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