Word Meanings - DEATHWARD - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Toward death.

Related words: (words related to DEATHWARD)

• DEATHLIKE
  1. Resembling death. A deathlike slumber, and a dead repose. Pope. 2. Deadly. "Deathlike dragons." Shak.
• DEATHLY
  Deadly; fatal; mortal; destructive.
• 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
• DEATHLINESS
  The quality of being deathly; deadliness. Southey.
• TOWARDS
  See TOWARD
• TOWARDNESS
  Quality or state of being toward.
• DEATHWATCH
  A small beetle . By forcibly striking its head against woodwork it makes a ticking sound, which is a call of the sexes to each other, but has been imagined by superstitious people to presage death. A small wingless insect, of the family Psocidæ,
• DEATHWARD
  Toward death.
• TOWARDLY
  See DRYDEN
• DEATH
  Loss of spiritual life. To be death. Rom. viii. 6. 9. Anything so dreadful as to be like death. It was death to them to think of entertaining such doctrines. Atterbury. And urged him, so that his soul was vexed unto death. Judg. xvi. 16. Note: Death
• DEATHFULNESS
  Appearance of death. Jer. Taylor.
• 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.
• DEATH'S-HERB
  The deadly nightshade . Dr. Prior.
• DEATHBED
  The bed in which a person dies; hence, the closing hours of life of one who dies by sickness or the like; the last sickness. That often-quoted passage from Lord Hervey in which the Queen's deathbed is described. Thackeray.
• DEATHLESS
  Not subject to death, destruction, or extinction; immortal; undying; imperishable; as, deathless beings; deathless fame.
• 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.
• DEATHSMAN
  An executioner; a headsman or hangman. Shak.
• DEATHBLOW
  A mortal or crushing blow; a stroke or event which kills or destroys. The deathblow of my hope. Byron.
• DEATHFUL
  1. Full of death or slaughter; murderous; destructive; bloody. These eyes behold The deathful scene. Pope. 2. Liable to undergo death; mortal. The deathless gods and deathful earth. Chapman.
• DEATHBIRD
  Tengmalm's or Richardson's owl ; -- so called from a superstition of the North American Indians that its note presages death.
• UNTOWARDLY
  Perverse; froward; untoward. "Untowardly tricks and vices." Locke.
• UNTOWARD
  Toward. Gower.