Word Meanings - DORSAD - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Toward the dorsum or back; on the dorsal side; dorsally.

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
TOWARDS
See TOWARD
TOWARDNESS
Quality or state of being toward.
DORSALLY
On, or toward, the dorsum, or back; on the dorsal side of; dorsad.
DORSUM
The back or dorsal region of an animal; the upper side of an appendage or part; as, the dorsum of the tongue. (more info) 1. The ridge of a hill.
TOWARDLY
See DRYDEN
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.
DORSAL
Pertaining to, or situated near, the back, or dorsum, of an animal or of one of its parts; notal; tergal; neural; as, the dorsal fin of a fish; the dorsal artery of the tongue; -- opposed to ventral. Pertaining to the surface naturally inferior,
DORSALE
See N
UNTOWARDLY
Perverse; froward; untoward. "Untowardly tricks and vices." Locke.
UNTOWARD
Toward. Gower.
PREDORSAL
Situated in front of the back; immediately in front, or on the ventral side the dorsal part of the vertebral column.