Definition of rig

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Rig (n.) The peculiar fitting in shape, number, and arrangement of sails and masts, by which different types of vessels are distinguished; as, schooner rig, ship rig, etc. See Illustration in Appendix..

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Authentic :: Authentic (n.) An original (book or document).
Right :: Right (a.) Designed to be placed or worn outward; as, the right side of a piece of cloth..
Neo-latin :: Neo-Latin (a.) Applied to the Romance languages, as being mostly of Latin origin..
Orchestra :: Orchestra (n.) The space in a theater between the stage and the audience; -- originally appropriated by the Greeks to the chorus and its evolutions, afterward by the Romans to persons of distinction, and by the moderns to a band of instrumental musicians..
Cession :: Cession (n.) A yielding, or surrender, as of property or rights, to another person; the act of ceding..
Low-spirited :: Low-spirited (a.) Deficient in animation and courage; dejected; depressed; not sprightly.
Bright-harnessed :: Bright-harnessed (a.) Having glittering armor.
Cosmogonist :: Cosmogonist (n.) One who treats of the origin of the universe; one versed in cosmogony.
Grig :: Grig (n.) Heath.
Mizzenmast :: Mizzenmast (n.) The hindmost mast of a three-masted vessel, or of a yawl-rigged vessel..
Pinnacle :: Pinnacle (n.) An architectural member, upright, and generally ending in a small spire, -- used to finish a buttress, to constitute a part in a proportion, as where pinnacles flank a gable or spire, and the like. Pinnacles may be considered primarily as added weight, where it is necessary to resist the thrust of an arch, etc..
Wrongous :: Wrongous (a.) Not right; illegal; as, wrongous imprisonment..
Caper :: Caper (v. i.) To leap or jump about in a sprightly manner; to cut capers; to skip; to spring; to prance; to dance.
Seizin :: Seizin (n.) Possession; possession of an estate of froehold. It may be either in deed or in law; the former when there is actual possession, the latter when there is a right to such possession by construction of law. In some of the United States seizin means merely ownership..
Quadriga :: Quadriga (n.) A car or chariot drawn by four horses abreast.
Retranslate :: Retranslate (v. t.) To translate anew; especially, to translate back into the original language..
Relax :: Relax (n.) To make lax or loose; to make less close, firm, rigid, tense, or the like; to slacken; to loosen; to open; as, to relax a rope or cord; to relax the muscles or sinews..
Brighten :: Brighten (a.) To make acute or witty; to enliven.
Subrotund :: Subrogation (n.) The substitution of one person in the place of another as a creditor, the new creditor succeeding to the rights of the former; the mode by which a third person who pays a creditor succeeds to his rights against the debtor..
Check :: Check (v. t.) To verify, to guard, to make secure, by means of a mark, token, or other check; to distinguish by a check; to put a mark against (an item) after comparing with an original or a counterpart in order to secure accuracy; as, to check an account; to check baggage..
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