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Word Meanings - FORESIDE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. The front side; the front; esp., a stretch of country fronting the sea. 2. The outside or external covering. Spenser.

Related words: (words related to FORESIDE)

  • FRONTIERSMAN
    A man living on the frontier.
  • COUNTRY-DANCE
    See MACUALAY
  • FRONTIERED
    Placed on the frontiers.
  • COVER-POINT
    The fielder in the games of cricket and lacrosse who supports "point."
  • FRONTLESSLY
    Shamelessly; impudently.
  • FRONTED
    Formed with a front; drawn up in line. "Fronted brigades." Milton.
  • COVERLET
    The uppermost cover of a bed or of any piece of furniture. Lay her in lilies and in violets . . . And odored sheets and arras coverlets. Spenser.
  • 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
  • COUNTRY SEAT
    A dwelling in the country, used as a place of retirement from the city.
  • FRONTAGE
    The front part of an edifice or lot; extent of front.
  • COVERCLE
    A small cover; a lid. Sir T. Browne.
  • OUTSIDER
    1. One not belonging to the concern, institution, party, etc., spoken of; one disconnected in interest or feeling. A. Trollope. 2. A locksmith's pinchers for grasping the point of a key in the keyhole, to open a door from the outside when the
  • 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;
  • FRONTLESS
    Without face or front; shameless; not diffident; impudent. "Frontless vice." Dryden. "Frontless flattery." Pope.
  • EXTERNAL
    Away from the mesial plane of the body; lateral. External angles. See under Angle. (more info) 1. Outward; exterior; relating to the outside, as of a body; being without; acting from without; -- opposed to internal; as, the external
  • COVERT BARON
    Under the protection of a husband; married. Burrill.
  • FRONTON
    See 2
  • COVERTNESS
    Secrecy; privacy.
  • COUNTRY CLUB
    A club usually located in the suburbs or vicinity of a city or town and devoted mainly to outdoor sports.
  • COVERER
    One who, or that which, covers.
  • 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.
  • RECOVER
    To cover again. Sir W. Scott.
  • 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
  • CONFRONTATION
    Act of confronting. H. Swinburne.
  • EFFRONTUOUSLY
    Impudently. R. North.
  • DISPENSER
    One who, or that which, dispenses; a distributer; as, a dispenser of favors.
  • DISCOVERTURE
    A state of being released from coverture; freedom of a woman from the coverture of a husband. (more info) 1. Discovery.
  • AFFRONTEE
    One who receives an affront. Lytton.

 

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