n. Arrangement in a group or in groups; grouping. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. See Aggroupment. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. someone who lives in the same camp as another. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n.; pl. Chapmen [ AS. ceápman; ceáp trade + man man; akin to D. koopman, Sw. köpman, Dan. kiöpmand, G. kaufmann.f. Chap to cheapen, and see Cheap. ] 1. One who buys and sells; a merchant; a buyer or a seller. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

The word of life is a quick commodity, and ought not, as a drug to be obtruded on those chapmen who are unwilling to buy it. T. Fuller. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A peddler; a hawker. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Indian name. ] (Zool.) A squirrel-like animal of the genus Tamias, sometimes called the striped squirrel, chipping squirrel, ground squirrel, hackee. The common species of the United States is the Tamias striatus. [ Written also chipmonk, chipmuck, and chipmuk. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. F. décampement. ] Departure from a camp; a marching off. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. F. développement. ] [ Written also developement. ] 1. The act of developing or disclosing that which is unknown; a gradual unfolding process by which anything is developed, as a plan or method, or an image upon a photographic plate; gradual advancement or growth through a series of progressive changes; also, the result of developing, or a developed state. [ 1913 Webster ]

A new development of imagination, taste, and poetry. Channing. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Biol.) The series of changes which animal and vegetable organisms undergo in their passage from the embryonic state to maturity, from a lower to a higher state of organization. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Math.) (a) The act or process of changing or expanding an expression into another of equivalent value or meaning. (b) The equivalent expression into which another has been developed. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. (Mus.) The elaboration of a theme or subject; the unfolding of a musical idea; the evolution of a whole piece or movement from a leading theme or motive. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. A tract of land on which a number of buildings have been constructed; -- especially used for tract on which from two to hundreds of houses have been constructed by a commercial developer{ 4 } for sale to individuals. [ PJC ]

Development theory (Biol.), the doctrine that animals and plants possess the power of passing by slow and successive stages from a lower to a higher state of organization, and that all the higher forms of life now in existence were thus developed by uniform laws from lower forms, and are not the result of special creative acts. See the Note under Darwinian.

Syn. -- Unfolding; disclosure; unraveling; evolution; elaboration; growth. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Pertaining to, or characteristic of, the process of development; as, the developmental power of a germ. Carpenter. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } adv. [ AS. drop-m&aemacr_;lum; dropa drop + m&aemacr_;l portion. Cf. Piecemeal. ] By drops or small portions. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Distilling dropmeal, a little at once. Holland. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. The act of pitching tents or forming huts, as by an army or traveling company, for temporary lodging or rest. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The place where an army or a company is encamped; a camp; tents pitched or huts erected for temporary lodgings. [ 1913 Webster ]

A square of about seven hundred yards was sufficient for the encampment of twenty thousand Romans. Gibbon. [ 1913 Webster ]

A green encampment yonder meets the eye. Guardian. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. F. enveloppement. ] 1. The act of enveloping or wrapping; an inclosing or covering on all sides. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. That which envelops or surrounds; an envelop. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Act of enwrapping; a wrapping or an envelope. Shuckford. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. F. équipement. See Equip. ] 1. The act of equipping, or the state of being equipped, as for a voyage or expedition. Burke. [ 1913 Webster ]

The equipment of the fleet was hastened by De Witt. Hume. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Whatever is used in equipping; necessaries for an expedition or voyage; the collective designation for the articles comprising an outfit; equipage; as, a railroad equipment (locomotives, cars, etc. ; for carrying on business); horse equipments; infantry equipments; naval equipments; laboratory equipments. [ 1913 Webster ]

Armed and dight,
In the equipments of a knight. Longfellow. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. F. escarpement. ] A steep descent or declivity; steep face or edge of a ridge; ground about a fortified place, cut away nearly vertically to prevent hostile approach. See Scarp. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Naut.) The mast erected at the head of the foremast, and at the head of which stands the fore-topgallant mast; the mast next above the foremast. See Ship. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The man who manipulates a grip. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ A corruption of the “help meet for him” of Genesis ii. 18.Fitzedward Hall. ] A helper; a companion; specifically, a wife. [ 1913 Webster ]

In Minorca the ass and the hog are common helpmates, and are yoked together in order to turn up the land. Pennant. [ 1913 Webster ]

A waiting woman was generally considered as the most suitable helpmate for a parson. Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ See Helpmate. ] A wife; a helpmate. [ 1913 Webster ]

The Lord God created Adam, . . . and afterwards, on his finding the want of a helpmeet, caused him to sleep, and took one of his ribs and thence made woman. J. H. Newman. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. the mast next above the mainmast. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. A person who makes maps; a cartographer. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. The making of maps and charts; cartography.
Syn. -- cartography. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n.; pl. Midshipmen [ 1913 Webster ]

1. (a) Formerly, a kind of naval cadet, in a ship of war, whose business was to carry orders, messages, reports, etc., between the officers of the quarter-deck and those of the forecastle, and render other services as required. (b) In the English naval service, the second rank attained by a combatant officer after a term of service as naval cadet. Having served three and a half years in this rank, and passed an examination, he is eligible to promotion to the rank of lieutenant. (c) In the United States navy, the lowest grade of officers in line of promotion, being students or graduates of the Naval Academy awaiting promotion to the rank of ensign. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Zool.) An American marine fish of the genus Porichthys, allied to the toadfish; also called singingfish. [ 1913 Webster ]

Cadet midshipman, formerly a title distinguishing a cadet line officer from a cadet engineer at the U. S. Naval Academy. See under Cadet. --
Cadet midshipman, formerly, a naval cadet who had served his time, passed his examinations, and was awaiting promotion; -- now called, in the United States, midshipman; in England, sublieutenant. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Failure or lack of development. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The attitude or practice of trying to keep one step ahead of a friend or competitor; vigorous competitiveness. [ WordNet 1.5 +PJC ]

n. The act of recouping. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ Recoupment applies to equities growing out of the very affair from which thw principal demand arises, set-off to cross-demands which may be independent in origin. Abbott. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. the rebuilding of an urban area, usually a commercial district but sometimes residential or industrial, and typically involving some portion of government involvement and expenditure; to organize a municipal redevelopment agency. [ PJC ]

n. The act of reshipping; also, that which is reshipped. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A keeper or feeder of sheep; also, an owner of sheep. 2 Kings iii. 4. [ 1913 Webster ]

n.; pl. Shipmen A seaman, or sailor. [ Obs. or Poetic ] Chaucer. R. Browning. [ 1913 Webster ]

About midnight the shipmen deemed that they drew near to some country. Acts xxvii. 27. [ 1913 Webster ]

Shipman's card, the mariner's compass. [ Obs. ] Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The captain, master, or commander of a ship. Jonah i. 6. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who serves on board of the same ship with another; a fellow sailor. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. The act or process of shipping; as, he was engaged in the shipment of coal for London; an active shipment of wheat from the West. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. That which is shipped. [ 1913 Webster ]

The question is, whether the share of M. in the shipment is exempted from condemnation by reason of his neutral domicle. Story. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A shopgirl. [ 1913 Webster ]

n.; pl. Shopmen 1. A shopkeeper; a retailer. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. One who serves in a shop; a salesman. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. One who works in a shop or a factory. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Zool.) See 1st Hag, 4. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ AS. steópmōder. ] The wife of one's father by a subsequent marriage. [ 1913 Webster ]

n.; pl. Topmem 1. See Topsman, 2. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Naut.) A man stationed in the top. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Naut.) The second mast, or that which is next above the lower mast, and below the topgallant mast. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Highest; uppermost; as, the topmost cliff; the topmost branch of a tree. [ 1913 Webster ]

The nightngale may claim the topmost bough. Cowper. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Same as Transshipment. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The act of transshipping, or transferring, as goods, from one ship or conveyance to another. [ Written also transhipment. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. tripe-madame, trique-madame. ] (Bot.) Same as Prickmadam. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. [ Troop + -meal as in piecemeal. ] By troops; in crowds. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

So, troopmeal, Troy pursued a while, laying on with swords and darts. Chapman. [ 1913 Webster ]

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n.; pl. Tupmen A man who breeds, or deals in tups. [ Prov. Eng. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The act of unshipping, or the state of being unshipped; displacement. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Cf. Uppermost. ] Highest; topmost; uppermost. Spenser. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]