Word Meanings - CAUDAD - Book Publishers vocabulary database
Backwards; toward the tail or posterior part.
Related words: (words related to CAUDAD)
- TOWARD; TOWARDS
1. In the direction of; to. He set his face toward the wilderness. Num. xxiv. 1. The waves make towards'' the pebbled shore. Shak. 2. With direction to, in a moral sense; with respect or reference to; regarding; concerning. His eye shall be evil - TOWARDS
See TOWARD - TOWARDNESS
Quality or state of being toward. - POSTERIORLY
Subsequently in time; also, behind in position. - TOWARDLY
See DRYDEN - TOWARDLINESS
The quality or state of being towardly; docility; tractableness. The beauty and towardliness of these children moved her brethren to envy. Sir W. Raleigh. - POSTERIORITY
The state of being later or subsequent; as, posteriority of time, or of an event; -- opposed to priority. - POSTERIORS
The hinder parts, as of an animal's body. Swift. - TOWARD
1. Approaching; coming near. "His toward peril." Spenser. 2. Readly to do or learn; compliant with duty; not froward; apt; docile; tractable; as, a toward youth. 3. Ready to act; forward; bold; valiant. Why, that is spoken like a toward prince. - POSTERIOR
At or toward the caudal extremity; caudal; -- in human anatomy often used for dorsal. (more info) 1. Later in time; hence, later in the order of proceeding or moving; coming after; -- opposed to prior. Hesiod was posterior to Homer. Broome. 2. - BACKWARD; BACKWARDS
1. With the back in advance or foremost; as, to ride backward. 2. Toward the back; toward the rear; as, to throw the arms backward. 3. On the back, or with the back downward. Thou wilt fall backward. Shak. 4. Toward, or in, past time or events; - UNTOWARDLY
Perverse; froward; untoward. "Untowardly tricks and vices." Locke. - A POSTERIORI
Characterizing that kind of reasoning which derives propositions from the observation of facts, or by generalizations from facts arrives at principles and definitions, or infers causes from effects. This is the reverse of a priori reasoning. - UNTOWARD
Toward. Gower.