Word Meanings - DORSALLY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

On, or toward, the dorsum, or back; on the dorsal side of; dorsad.

Related words: (words related to 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.
• DORSAD
  Toward the dorsum or back; on the dorsal side; dorsally.
• 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.