Word Meanings - DOORSTEP - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The stone or plank forming a step before an outer door.

Related words: (words related to DOORSTEP)

• OUTER
  Being on the outside; external; farthest or farther from the interior, from a given station, or from any space or position regarded as a center or starting place; -- opposed to inner; as, the outer wall; the outer court or gate; the outer stump
• FORMALITY
  The dress prescribed for any body of men, academical, municipal, or sacerdotal. The doctors attending her in their formalities as far as Shotover. Fuller. 6. That which is formal; the formal part. It unties the inward knot of marriage, . . . while
• PLANKING
  1. The act of laying planks; also, planks, collectively; a series of planks in place, as the wooden covering of the frame of a vessel. 2. The act of splicing slivers. See Plank, v. t., 4.
• STONEBRASH
  A subsoil made up of small stones or finely-broken rock; brash.
• FORMICARY
  The nest or dwelling of a swarm of ants; an ant-hill.
• FORMULIZE
  To reduce to a formula; to formulate. Emerson.
• STONEROOT
  A North American plant having a very hard root; horse balm. See Horse balm, under Horse.
• FORMERLY
  In time past, either in time immediately preceding or at any indefinite distance; of old; heretofore.
• FORMICAROID
  Like or pertaining to the family Formicaridæ or ant thrushes.
• FORMIDABLY
  In a formidable manner.
• PLANKTON
  All the animals and plants, taken collectively, which live at or near the surface of salt or fresh waters. --Plank*ton"ic , a.
• FORMICATE
  Resembling, or pertaining to, an ant or ants.
• FORME
  See PATTé
• OUTERLY
  1. Utterly; entirely. Chaucer. 2. Toward the outside. Grew.
• FORMEDON
  A writ of right for a tenant in tail in case of a discontinuance of the estate tail. This writ has been abolished.
• STONE-STILL
  As still as a stone. Shak.
• FORMAT
  The shape and size of a book; hence, its external form. The older manuscripts had been written in a much larger format than that found convenient for university work. G. H. Putnam. One might, indeed, protest that the format is a little
• BEFORETIME
  Formerly; aforetime. dwelt in their tents, as beforetime. 2 Kings xiii. 5.
• STONE-BLIND
  As blind as a stone; completely blind.
• FORMYL
  A univalent radical, H.C:O, regarded as the essential residue of formic acid and aldehyde. Formerly, the radical methyl, CH3.
• PITCHSTONE
  An igneous rock of semiglassy nature, having a luster like pitch.
• OMNIFORMITY
  The condition or quality of having every form. Dr. H. More.
• INFORMITY
  Want of regular form; shapelessness.
• FALCIFORM
  Having the shape of a scithe or sickle; resembling a reaping hook; as, the falciform ligatment of the liver.
• DEFORMER
  One who deforms.
• CAPSTONE
  A fossil echinus of the genus Cannulus; -- so called from its supposed resemblance to a cap.
• DIVERSIFORM
  Of a different form; of varied forms.
• CLINKSTONE
  An igneous rock of feldspathic composition, lamellar in structure, and clinking under the hammer. See Phonolite.
• PREFORM
  To form beforehand, or for special ends. "Their natures and preformed faculties. " Shak.
• VARIFORM
  Having different shapes or forms.
• RESINIFORM
  Having the form of resin.
• GRINDSTONE
  A flat, circular stone, revolving on an axle, for grinding or sharpening tools, or shaping or smoothing objects. To hold, pat, or bring one's nose to the grindstone, to oppress one; to keep one in a condition of servitude. They might be ashamed,
• BIFORM
  Having two forms, bodies, or shapes. Croxall.
• VILLIFORM
  Having the form or appearance of villi; like close-set fibers, either hard or soft; as, the teeth of perch are villiform.
• REFORMALIZE
  To affect reformation; to pretend to correctness.
• FULL-FORMED
  Full in form or shape; rounded out with flesh. The full-formed maids of Afric. Thomson.
• SCORIFORM
  In the form of scoria.