Word Meanings - BACKFRIEND - Book Publishers vocabulary database
A secret enemy. South.
Related words: (words related to BACKFRIEND)
- SOUTHWEST
The point of the compass equally from the south and the west; the southwest part or region. - SOUTHSAY
See SOOTHSAY - SOUTHWESTERLY
To ward or from the southwest; as, a southwesterly course; a southwesterly wind. - SOUTHPAW
A pitcher who pitches with the left hand. - SOUTHERNLINESS
Southerliness. - SECRETE
To separate from the blood and elaborate by the process of secretion; to elaborate and emit as a secretion. See Secretion. Why one set of cells should secrete bile, another urea, and so on, we do not known. Carpenter. Syn. -- To conceal; hide. See - SOUTHREN
Southern. "I am a Southren man." Chaucer. - SECRETARY
secretari, Sp. & Pg. secretario, It. secretario, segretario) LL. secretarius, originally, a confidant, one intrusted with secrets, 1. One who keeps, or is intrusted with, secrets. 2. A person employed to write orders, letters, dispatches, public - SECRET
segreto), fr. L. secretus, p.p. of secrernere to put apart, to 1. Hidden; concealed; as, secret treasure; secret plans; a secret vow. Shak. The secret things belong unto the Lord our God; but those things which are revealed belong unto us. Deut. - SOUTHSAYER
See SOOTHSAYER - SOUTH; SOUTHERLY
the old squaw; -- so called in imitation of its cry. Called also southerly, and southerland. See under Old. - SOUTHING
Distance of any heavenly body south of the equator; south declination; south latitude. (more info) 1. Tendency or progress southward; as, the southing of the sun. Emerson. 2. The time at which the moon, or other heavenly body, passes the meridian - SOUTHERN
A Southerner. - SOUTHNESS
A tendency in the end of a magnetic needle to point toward the south pole. Faraday. - SOUTHEASTERN
Of or pertaining to the southeast; southeasterly. - SECRETNESS
1. The state or quality of being secret, hid, or concealed. 2. Secretiveness; concealment. Donne. - SOUTHWESTWARD; SOUTHWESTWARDLY
Toward the southwest. - SOUTHER
A strong wind, gale, or storm from the south. - SOUTHERLINESS
The quality or state of being southerly; direction toward the south. - SOUTHERNWOOD
A shrubby species of wormwood having aromatic foliage. It is sometimes used in making beer. - UNDERSECRETARY
A secretary who is subordinate to the chief secretary; an assistant secretary; as, an undersecretary of the Treasury. - EMPIRE STATE OF THE SOUTH
Georgia; -- a nickname. - SOUTHEAST
The point of the compass equally distant from the south and the east; the southeast part or region.