Word Meanings - UPSTREET - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Toward the higher part of a street; as, to walk upstreet. G. W. Gable.

Related words: (words related to UPSTREET)

• HIGHER-UP
  A superior officer or official; -- used chiefly in pl.
• TOWARD; TOWARDS
  1. In the direction of; to. He set his face toward the wilderness. Num. xxiv. 1. The waves make towards'' the pebbled shore. Shak. 2. With direction to, in a moral sense; with respect or reference to; regarding; concerning. His eye shall be evil
• HIGHERING
  Rising higher; ascending. In ever highering eagle circles. Tennyson.
• TOWARDS
  See TOWARD
• TOWARDNESS
  Quality or state of being toward.
• STREETWARD
  An officer, or ward, having the care of the streets. Cowell.
• TOWARDLY
  See DRYDEN
• GABLET
  A small gable, or gable-shaped canopy, formed over a tabernacle, niche, etc.
• GABLE
  A cable. Chapman.
• TOWARDLINESS
  The quality or state of being towardly; docility; tractableness. The beauty and towardliness of these children moved her brethren to envy. Sir W. Raleigh.
• TOWARD
  1. Approaching; coming near. "His toward peril." Spenser. 2. Readly to do or learn; compliant with duty; not froward; apt; docile; tractable; as, a toward youth. 3. Ready to act; forward; bold; valiant. Why, that is spoken like a toward prince.
• UPSTREET
  Toward the higher part of a street; as, to walk upstreet. G. W. Gable.
• HIGHER THOUGHT
  See BELOW
• 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.
• HIGHER CRITICISM
  Criticism which includes the study of the contents, literary character, date, authorship, etc., of any writing; as, the higher criticism of the Pentateuch. Called also historical criticism. The comparison of the Hebrew and Greek texts
• OBLIGABLE
  Acknowledging, or complying with, obligation; trustworthy. The main difference between people seems to be, that one man can come under obligations on which you can rely, -- is obligable; and another is not. Emerson.
• 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
• LEVIGABLE
  Capable of being levigated.
• PROPAGABLE
  1. Capable of being propagated, or of being continued or multiplied by natural generation or production. 2. Capable of being spread or extended by any means; -- said of tenets, doctrines, or principles.
• INFATIGABLE
  Indefatigable. Daniel.
• INDEFATIGABLE
  Incapable of being fatigued; not readily exhausted; unremitting in labor or effort; untiring; unwearying; not yielding to fatigue; as, indefatigable exertions, perseverance, application. "A constant, indefatigable attendance." South. Upborne with
• NAVIGABLE
  Capable of being navigated; deep enough and wide enough to afford passage to vessels; as, a navigable river. Note: By the comon law, a river is considered as navigable only so far as the tide ebbs and flows in it. This is also the doctrine
• MITIGABLE
  Admitting of mitigation; that may be mitigated.
• INNAVIGABLE
  Incapable of being navigated; impassable by ships or vessels. Drygen. -- In*nav"i*ga*bly, adv.
• BEGGABLE
  Capable of being begged.
• UNTOWARDLY
  Perverse; froward; untoward. "Untowardly tricks and vices." Locke.
• DEFATIGABLE
  Capable of being wearied or tired out. Glanvill.