Word Meanings - PSEUDOHALTER - Book Publishers vocabulary database
One of the rudimentary front wings of certain insects . They resemble the halteres, or rudimentary hind wings, of Diptera.
Related words: (words related to PSEUDOHALTER)
- FRONTIERSMAN
A man living on the frontier. - FRONTIERED
Placed on the frontiers. - FRONTLESSLY
Shamelessly; impudently. - FRONTED
Formed with a front; drawn up in line. "Fronted brigades." Milton. - 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 - FRONTAGE
The front part of an edifice or lot; extent of front. - 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. - RUDIMENTARY
Very imperfectly developed; in an early stage of development; embryonic. (more info) 1. Of or pertaining to rudiments; consisting in first principles; elementary; initial; as, rudimental essays. - FRONTON
See 2 - HALTERES
Balancers; the rudimentary hind wings of Diptera. - CERTAINTY
Clearness; freedom from ambiguity; lucidity. Of a certainty, certainly. (more info) 1. The quality, state, or condition, of being certain. The certainty of punishment is the truest security against crimes. Fisher Ames. 2. A fact or truth - FRONTIGNAC; FRONTIGNAN
A grape of many varieties and colors. (more info) 1. A sweet muscadine wine made in Frontignan , France. - FRONT
1. The forehead or brow, the part of the face above the eyes; sometimes, also, the whole face. Bless'd with his father's front, his mother's tongue. Pope. Grim-visaged war hath smoothed his wrinkled front. Shak. His front yet threatens, and his - FRONTISPIECE
The part which first meets the eye; as: The principal front of a building. An ornamental figure or illustration fronting the first page, or titlepage, of a book; formerly, the titlepage itself. (more info) beginning, front of a church, fr. L. frons - FRONTINIAC
See FRONTIGNAC - FRONTO-
A combining form signifying relating to the forehead or the frontal bone; as, fronto-parietal, relating to the frontal and the parietal bones; fronto-nasal, etc. - FRONTINGLY
In a fronting or facing position; opposingly. - CERTAINNESS
Certainty. - DIPTERAL
Having two wings only; belonging to the order Diptera. - 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. - 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 - ASCERTAINMENT
The act of ascertaining; a reducing to certainty; a finding out by investigation; discovery. The positive ascertainment of its limits. Burke. - ASCERTAINABLE
That may be ascertained. -- As`cer*tain"a*ble*ness, n. -- As`cer*tain"a*bly, adv. - CONFRONTATION
Act of confronting. H. Swinburne. - EFFRONTUOUSLY
Impudently. R. North. - UNCERTAINTY
1. The quality or state of being uncertain. 2. That which is uncertain; something unknown. Our shepherd's case is every man's case that quits a moral certainty for an uncertainty. L'Estrange. - AFFRONTEE
One who receives an affront. Lytton. - BIFRONTED
Having two fronts. "Bifronted Janus." Massinger. - AFFRONTEDLY
Shamelessly. Bacon. - SUPERFRONTAL
A cloth which is placed over the top of an altar, and often hangs down a few inches over the frontal.