 | Isaac Watts - 1807 - 320 pages
...each other, the definition is more difficult- A bird may be defined a feathered animal with wings, a ship may be defined a large hollow building made to pass over the sea with sails : but if you ask me to define a batt, which is between a bird and a beast, or to define a barge and... | |
 | Isaac Watts - Dissenters, Religious - 1813 - 616 pages
...each other, the definition is more difficult. A bird may be defined a feathered animal with Kings ; a ship may be defined a large hollow building made to pass over the sea with sails; but if you ask me to define a bat, which is between a bird and a beast, or to define a barge and hoy,... | |
 | William James - 1826 - 624 pages
...future inquiries, if we at once give an explanation of some of these terms. A ship is defined to be " a large hollow building, made to pass over the sea with sails," without reference to the quantity, shape, or position of those sails ; and, in this extended sense,... | |
 | Joseph Tinker Buckingham, Edwin Buckingham, Samuel Gridley Howe, John Osborne Sargent, Park Benjamin - American literature - 1831 - 570 pages
..." associate, a partner." But are partners in trade accomplices f A ship, say Johnson and Walker, is a large hollow building made to pass over the sea with sails. A sloop, says Johnson, is a small ship, commonly with only two masts ! A sloop, says Walker, is a small... | |
 | William Hamilton Maxwell - Amusements - 1833 - 618 pages
...of the leg. SHINGLES, s. A kind of tetter or herpes that spreads itself round the loins. SHIP, .5. A ship may be defined a large hollow building made to pass over the sea with sails ; a vessel with three masts. Vide YACHT. SHOALS, «. A crowd, a multitude, a throng; a shallow, a sand... | |
 | William James - Great Britain - 1837 - 478 pages
...future inquiries, if we at once give an explanation of some of these terms. A ship is defined to be " a large hollow building, made to pass over the sea with sails," without reference to the quantity, shape, or position of those sails; and, in this extended sense,... | |
 | William James - 1837 - 506 pages
...future inquiries, if we at once give an explanation of some of these terms. A ship is denned to be " a large hollow building, made to pass over the sea with sails," without reference to the quantity, shape, or position of those sails ; and, in this extended sense,... | |
 | Noah Webster - English language - 1843 - 392 pages
...dictionaries. A prediction may be a declaration of a benefit to be conferred, as well ns a promise. S'iip. A large hollow building made to pass over the sea with sails. — Johnson, Chalmers, Sheridan, Walker, Jones, Jameson, and others. Sloop. A small ship, commonly... | |
 | E. Whimper - Bible - 1845 - 204 pages
...people be." (Gen. xlix. 10.) Ship. Vessels of all kinds are so styled in Scripture. It may be denned as a large hollow building, made to pass over the sea with sails. Sparrow. This bird is easily tamed, and will hop about the house and on the table with great familiarity.... | |
 | Henry Gardiner Adams - Crustacea - 1856 - 250 pages
...SHIP. It is derived from the Saxon scip, or the Teutonic schip, and signifies, as Dr. Johnson says, " a large hollow building, made to pass over the sea with sails." But this definition will not do for us now, for we have steam-ships, of which there were none when... | |
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... from 250 to 80 tons.f It will tend to clearness in our future inquiries, if we at once give an explanation of some of these terms. A ship is defined to be " a large hollow building, made to pass over the sea with sails... 
