Word Meanings - OUTSTREET - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A street remote from the center of a town. Johnson.

Related words: (words related to OUTSTREET)

• CENTERING
  See 6
• JOHNSONIANISM
  A manner of acting or of writing peculiar to, or characteristic of, Dr. Johnson.
• JOHNSONESE
  The literary style of Dr. Samuel Johnson, or one formed in imitation of it; an inflated, stilted, or pompous style, affecting classical words. E. Everett.
• CENTERBIT; CENTREBIT
  An instrument turning on a center, for boring holes. See Bit, n., 3.
• STREETWARD
  An officer, or ward, having the care of the streets. Cowell.
• CENTERBOARD; CENTREBOARD
  A movable or sliding keel formed of a broad board or slab of wood or metal which may be raised into a water-tight case amidships, when in shallow water, or may be lowered to increase the area of lateral resistance and prevent leeway when the vessel
• JOHNSON GRASS
  A tall perennial grass , valuable in the Southern and Western States for pasture and hay. The rootstocks are large and juicy and are eagerly sought by swine. Called also Cuba grass, Means grass, Evergreen millet, and Arabian millet.
• REMOTE
  Separated by intervals greater than usual. -- Re*mote"ly, adv. -- Re*mote"ness, n. (more info) 1. Removed to a distance; not near; far away; distant; -- said in respect to time or to place; as, remote ages; remote lands. Places remote enough are
• JOHNSONIAN
  Pertaining to or resembling Dr. Johnson or his style; pompous; inflated.
• CENTERPIECE; CENTREPIECE
  An ornament to be placed in the center, as of a table, ceiling, atc.; a central article or figure.
• CENTER; CENTRE
  1. To be placed in a center; to be central. 2. To be collected to a point; to be concentrated; to rest on, or gather about, as a center. Where there is no visible truth wherein to center, error is as wide as men's fancies. Dr. H. More. Our hopes
• CENTERFIRE CARTRIDGE
  See CARTRIDGE
• STREETWALKER
  A common prostitute who walks the streets to find customers.
• STREET
  Originally, a paved way or road; a public highway; now commonly, a thoroughfare in a city or village, bordered by dwellings or business houses. He removed Amasa from the street unto the field. Coverdale. At home or through the high street passing.
• CENTER
  A temporary structure upon which the materials of a vault or arch are supported in position util the work becomes self-supporting. One of the two conical steel pins, in a lathe, etc., upon which the work is held, and about which it revolves.
• CONCENTER; CONCENTRE
  To come to one point; to meet in, or converge toward, a common center; to have a common center. God, in whom all perfections concenter. Bp. Beveridge.
• SELF-CENTERING; SELF-CENTRING
  Centering in one's self.
• POSTREMOTE
  More remote in subsequent time or order.
• PREREMOTE
  More remote in previous time or prior order. In some cases two more links of causation may be introduced; one of them may be termed the preremote cause, the other the postremote effect. E. Darwin.
• WALL STREET
  A street towards the southern end of the borough of Manhattan, New York City, extending from Broadway to the East River; -- so called from the old wall which extended along it when the city belonged to the Dutch. It is the chief financial center
• TERREMOTE
  An earthquake. Gower.
• SELF-CENTERED; SELF-CENTRED
  Centered in itself, or in one's self. There hangs the ball of earth and water mixt, Self-centered and unmoved. Dryden.
• BY-STREET
  A separate, private, or obscure street; an out of the way or cross street. He seeks by-streets, and saves the expensive coach. Gay.
• ORTHOCENTER
  That point in which the three perpendiculars let fall from the angles of a triangle upon the opposite sides, or the sides produced, mutually intersect.
• CIRCUMCENTER
  The center of a circle that circumscribes a triangle.