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Webster’s Dictionary (1828)



413 words match “RAVEL”

CIRCUITER n.
One who travels a circuit, as a circuit judge. [R.] R. Whitlock.
CIRCULATORIOUS a.
Travelling from house to house or from town to town; itinerant. [Obs.] "Circulatorious jugglers." Barrow.
CIRCUMSPECTNESS n.
Vigilance un guarding against evil from every quarter; caution. [Travel] forces circumspectness on those abroad, who at home are nursed in security. Sir H. Wotton.
CLUE n.
ans of guidance. Same as Clew. You have wound a goodly clue. Shak. This clue once found unravels all the rest. Pope. Serve as clues to guide us into further knowledge. Locke.
COLPORTEUR n.
A hawker; specifically, one who travels about selling and distributing religious tracts and books.
COME v.
the combatants in beginning a contest; hence: (b) To meet an antagonist or a difficulty bravely. [Colloq.] -- To come to time. (a) (Prize Fighting) To come forward in order to resume the contest when the interval allowed for rest is over and "time" is called; hence: (b) To keep an appointment; to meet expectations. [C…
COMMERCIAL a.
siness. It includes bills of exchange, promissory notes, bank cheks, etc. -- Commercial traveler, an agent of a wholesale house who travels from town to town to solicit orders.
COMMISSIONAIRE n.
employee in a public office, hotel, or the like. The commissionaire familiar to European travelers performs miscellaneous services as a light porter, messenger, solicitor for hotels, etc.
COMMISSIONNAIRE n.
f a class of attendants, in some European cities, who perform miscellaneous services for travelers.
COMMUTATION TICKET n.
ortation at a reduced rate in consideration of some special circumstance, as increase of travel; specif., a ticket for a certain number of, or for daily, trips between neighboring places at a reduced rate, such as are commonly used by those doing business in a city and living in a suburb. Commutation tickets are except…
COMMUTE v.
To pay, or arrange to pay, in gross instead of part by part; as, to commute for a year's travel over a route.
COMMUTER n.
One who commutes; especially, one who commutes in traveling.
COMPREHENSOR n.
a full knowledge. [Obs.] When I shall have dispatched this weary pilgrimage, and from a traveler shall come to be a comprehensor, farewell faith and welcome vision. Bp. Hall.
CONCRETE n.
A mixture of gravel, pebbles, or broken stone with cement or with tar, etc., used for sidewalks, roadways, foundations, etc., and esp. for submarine structures.
CONESTOGA WAGON; CONESTOGA WAIN n.
A kind of large broad-wheeled wagon, usually covered, for traveling in soft soil and on prairies.
CONGLOMERATE n.
ding stone; -- opposed to agglomerate. See Breccia. A conglomerate, therefore, is simply gravel bound together by a cement. Lyell.
COUNTERGUARD n.
A low outwork before a bastion or ravelin, consisting of two lines of rampart parallel to the faces of the bastion, and protecting them from a breaching fire.
COUPON n.
led to some specified accomodation or service, as to a passage over a designated line of travel, a particular seat in a theater, or the like.
COURIER n.
An attendant on travelers, whose business it is to make arrangements for their convenience at hotels and on the way.
COVE v.
ng able to cove or sit upon them [eggs], she [the female tortoise] bestoweth them in the gravel. Holland.
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