Atrip: Definition and part of speech

Atrip

  1. adv. Hoisted up and ready to be swayed across; — said of yards.
  2. adv. Just hove clear of the ground; — said of the anchor.
  3. adv. Sheeted home, hoisted taut up and ready for trimming; — said of sails.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

Atoll: Definition and part of speech

Atoll

  1. n. A coral island or islands, consisting of a belt of coral reef, partly submerged, surrounding a central lagoon or depression; a lagoon island.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

Atom: Definition and part of speech

Atom

  1. v. t. To reduce to atoms.
  2. n. An ultimate indivisible particle of matter.
  3. n. An ultimate particle of matter not necessarily indivisible; a molecule.
  4. n. A constituent particle of matter, or a molecule supposed to be made up of subordinate particles.
  5. n. The smallest particle of matter that can enter into combination; one of the elementary constituents of a molecule.
  6. n. Anything extremely small; a particle; a whit.
  7. The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.