Word Meanings - REGARDANT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Looking behind or backward; as, a lion regardant. (more info) 1. Looking behind; looking backward watchfully. turns thither his regardant eye. Southey.

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• LOOKDOWN
  See
• TURNSTONE
  Any species of limicoline birds of the genera Strepsilas and Arenaria, allied to the plovers, especially the common American and European species . They are so called from their habit of turning up small stones in search of mollusks and
• TURNSPIT
  A small breed of dogs having a long body and short crooked legs. These dogs were formerly much used for turning a spit on which meat was roasting. (more info) 1. One who turns a spit; hence, a person engaged in some menial office. His lordship
• TURNSOLE
  + sole the sun, L. sol. See Turn, Solar, a., and cf. A plant of the genus Heliotropium; heliotrope; -- so named because its flowers are supposed to turn toward the sun. The sunflower. A kind of spurge . The euphorbiaceous plant Chrozophora
• LOOK
  1. To direct the eyes for the purpose of seeing something; to direct the eyes toward an object; to observe with the eyes while keeping them directed; -- with various prepositions, often in a special or figurative sense. See Phrases below. 2. To
• BACKWARD; BACKWARDS
  1. With the back in advance or foremost; as, to ride backward. 2. Toward the back; toward the rear; as, to throw the arms backward. 3. On the back, or with the back downward. Thou wilt fall backward. Shak. 4. Toward, or in, past time or events;
• THITHERTO
  To that point; so far.
• LOOKOUT
  1. A careful looking or watching for any object or event. 2. The place from which such observation is made. 3. A person engaged in watching. 4. Object or duty of forethought and care; responsibility.
• BACKWARDATION
  The seller's postponement of delivery of stock or shares, with the consent of the buyer, upon payment of a premium to the latter; -- also, the premium so paid. See Contango. Biddle.
• BACKWARDLY
  1. Reluctantly; slowly; aversely. Sir P. Sidney. 2. Perversely; ill. And does he think so backwardly of me Shak.
• THITHER
  1. To that place; -- opposed to Ant: hither. This city is near; . . . O, let me escape thither. Gen. xix. 20. Where I am, thither ye can not come. John vii. 34. 2. To that point, end, or result; as, the argument tended thither. Hither and thither,
• LOOKING-GLASS
  A mirror made of glass on which has been placed a backing of some reflecting substance, as quicksilver. There is none so homely but loves a looking-glass. South.
• BACKWARD
  1. Directed to the back or rear; as, backward glances. 2. Unwilling; averse; reluctant; hesitating; loath. For wiser brutes were backward to be slaves. Pope. 3. Not well advanced in learning; not quick of apprehension; dull; inapt; as, a backward
• BEHIND
  1. On the side opposite the front or nearest part; on the back side of; at the back of; on the other side of; as, behind a door; behind a hill. A tall Brabanter, behind whom I stood. Bp. Hall. 2. Left after the departure of, whether this be by
• LOOKER
  One who looks. Looker-on, a spectator; one that looks on, but has no agency or part in an affair. Did not this fatal war affront thy coast, Yet sattest thou an idle looker-on Fairfax.
• TURNSTILE
  1. A revolving frame in a footpath, preventing the passage of horses or cattle, but admitting that of persons; a turnpike. See Turnpike, n., 1. 2. A similar arrangement for registering the number of persons passing through a gateway, doorway, or
• BEHINDHAND
  1. In arrears financially; in a state where expenditures have exceeded the receipt of funds. 2. In a state of backwardness, in respect to what is seasonable or appropriate, or as to what should have been accomplished; not equally forward with some
• BACKWARDNESS
  The state of being backward.
• REGARDANT
  Looking behind or backward; as, a lion regardant. (more info) 1. Looking behind; looking backward watchfully. turns thither his regardant eye. Southey.
• THITHERWARD
  To ward that place; in that direction. They shall ask the way to Zion, with their faces thitherward. Jer. l.
• ILL-LOOKING
  Having a bad look; threatening; ugly. See Note under Ill, adv.
• FLOOKAN; FLUKAN
  See FLUCAN
• FLOOKY
  Fluky.
• DOWNLOOKED
  Having a downcast countenance; dejected; gloomy; sullen. Dryden.
• GOOD-LOOKING
  Handsome.
• ON-LOOKING
  Looking on or forward.
• OVERLOOK
  1. To look down upon from a place that is over or above; to look over or view from a higher position; to rise above, so as to command a view of; as, to overlook a valley from a hill. "The pile o'erlooked the town." Dryden. with burning eye did
• SERIES TURNS
  The turns in a series circuit.
• LADY'S LOOKING-GLASS
  See VENUS
• PRELOOK
  To look forward. Surrey.