*ship*

n. 1. the position or state of being a member of an honorary academy. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. The state of being an accomplice. [ R. ] Sir H. Taylor. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Accountant + -ship. ] The office or employment of an accountant. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A state of being acquainted; acquaintance. Southey. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The position or office of an administrator. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The office or position oaf an admiral; also, the naval skill of an admiral. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The office of an adviser. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Office or duty of an advocate. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The office of an ædile. T. Arnold. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Agency. Beau. & Fl. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Art, skill, or ability in the practice of aerial navigation; aircraft piloting. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. +PJC ]

n. 1. 1 a steerable self-propelled light-than-air aircraft.
Syn. -- dirigible [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. The condition, position, or office of an alderman. Fabyan. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The office of an almoner. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The quality or character of an amateur. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The state, office, or functions of an ambassador. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. (Naut.) In the middle of a ship, with regard to her length, and sometimes also her breadth. Totten. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The office or dignity of an apostle. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. The service or condition of an apprentice; the state in which a person is gaining instruction in a trade or art, under legal agreement. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The time an apprentice is serving (sometimes seven years, as from the age of fourteen to twenty-one). [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The office of an archdeacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The art or skill of an archer. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The office of an archon. Mitford. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The office or function of an assessor. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The state of an associate, as in Academy or an office. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The office or profession of an attorney; agency for another. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The office or function of auditor. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The office, or period of office, of an augur. Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. The quality or state of being an author; function or dignity of an author. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Source; origin; origination; as, the authorship of a book or review, or of an act, or state of affairs. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The office or dignity of an autocrat. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The quality of being a baby; the personality of an infant. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The state of being a bachelor. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The state of being a bard. [ 1913 Webster ]

. (Nav.) [ shortened from line-of-battle ship, i.e. the most heavily armored ship suited to be in the front line of a naval battle. ] An armor-plated warship built of steel and heavily armed, generally having over ten thousand tons displacement, and intended to be fit to combat the heaviest enemy ships in line of battle; the most heavily armed and armored class of warship at any given time. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. +PJC ]

n. The state of being, or the personality of, a beadle. A. Wood. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The state of being a beau; the personality of a beau. [ Jocular ] Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The art of managing a boat. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ brink + -manship. (1956). ] the policy or practise of pushing a dangerous situation to the brink of disaster (to the limits of safety), in order to achieve the most advantageous outcome; -- used especially of diplomatic maneuvers in crisis situations, and originally applied to the policies of John Foster Dulles under President Eisenhower. [ WordNet 1.5 +PJC ]

n. The state of privilege of a burgess. South. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The state or privileges of a burgher. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The office of a bursar. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The office of a butler. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The position, rank, or commission of a cadet; as, to get a cadetship.

n. Candidacy. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Of or pertaining to Canopus in Egypt; as, the Canopic vases, used in embalming. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. The condition, rank, post, or authority of a captain or chief commander. “To take the captainship.” Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Military skill; as, to show good captainship. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The condition, dignity, of office of a cardinal [ 1913 Webster ]

n. a cargo ship for the transport of livestock.
Syn. -- cattle boat. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. The office or power of a censor; as, to stand for a censorship. Holland. [ 1913 Webster ]

The press was not indeed at that moment under a general censorship. Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster ]