Word Meanings - BREASTSUMMER - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A summer or girder extending across a building flush with, and supporting, the upper part of a front or external wall; a long

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• SUPPORTABLE
  Capable of being supported, maintained, or endured; endurable. -- Sup*port"a*ble*ness, n. -- Sup*port"a*bly, adv.
• FRONTIERSMAN
  A man living on the frontier.
• SUPPORTATION
  Maintenance; support. Chaucer. Bacon.
• FRONTIERED
  Placed on the frontiers.
• FRONTLESSLY
  Shamelessly; impudently.
• FRONTED
  Formed with a front; drawn up in line. "Fronted brigades." Milton.
• FRONTLET
  The margin of the head, behind the bill of birds, often bearing rigid bristles. (more info) 1. A frontal or brow band; a fillet or band worn on the forehead. They shall be as frontlets between thine eyes. Deut. vi. 8. 2. A frown . What makes that
• UPPERMOST
  Highest in place, position, rank, power, or the like; upmost; supreme. Whatever faction happens to be uppermost. Swift.
• FLUSHING
  A surface formed of floating threads. (more info) 1. A heavy, coarse cloth manufactured from shoddy; -- commonly in the
• FRONTAGE
  The front part of an edifice or lot; extent of front.
• SUPPORTFUL
  Abounding with support. Chapman.
• EXTENDLESSNESS
  Unlimited extension. An . . . extendlessness of excursions. Sir. M. Hale.
• SUMMERSTIR
  To summer-fallow.
• SUPPORTLESS
  Having no support. Milton.
• SUMMERHOUSE
  A rustic house or apartment in a garden or park, to be used as a pleasure resort in summer. Shak.
• UPPERTENDOM
  The highest class in society; the upper ten. See Upper ten, under Upper.
• FRONTIER
  An outwork. Palisadoes, frontiers, parapets. Shak. (more info) 1. That part of a country which fronts or faces another country or an unsettled region; the marches; the border, confine, or extreme part of a country, bordering on another country;
• EXTENDANT
  Displaced. Ogilvie.
• FRONTLESS
  Without face or front; shameless; not diffident; impudent. "Frontless vice." Dryden. "Frontless flattery." Pope.
• FLUSHNESS
  The state of being flush; abundance.
• WHITE-FRONTED
  Having a white front; as, the white-fronted lemur. White- fronted goose , the white brant, or snow goose. See Snow goose, under Snow.
• LACROSSE
  A game of ball, originating among the North American Indians, now the popular field sport of Canada, and played also in England and the United States. Each player carries a long-handled racket, called a "crosse". The ball is not handled but caught
• CONFRONT
  1. To stand facing or in front of; to face; esp. to face hostilely; to oppose with firmness. We four, indeed, confronted were with four In Russian habit. Shak. He spoke and then confronts the bull. Dryden. Hester caught hold of Pearl, and drew
• MIDSUMMER
  The middle of summer. Shak. Midsummer daisy , the oxeye daisy.
• CONFRONTATION
  Act of confronting. H. Swinburne.
• EFFRONTUOUSLY
  Impudently. R. North.
• SHIPBUILDER
  A person whose occupation is to construct ships and other vessels; a naval architect; a shipwright.