Word Meanings - FORELIFT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To lift up in front.

Related words: (words related to FORELIFT)

• FRONTIERSMAN
  A man living on the frontier.
• FRONTIERED
  Placed on the frontiers.
• FRONTLESSLY
  Shamelessly; impudently.
• FRONTED
  Formed with a front; drawn up in line. "Fronted brigades." Milton.
• FRONTLET
  The margin of the head, behind the bill of birds, often bearing rigid bristles. (more info) 1. A frontal or brow band; a fillet or band worn on the forehead. They shall be as frontlets between thine eyes. Deut. vi. 8. 2. A frown . What makes that
• FRONTAGE
  The front part of an edifice or lot; extent of front.
• FRONTIER
  An outwork. Palisadoes, frontiers, parapets. Shak. (more info) 1. That part of a country which fronts or faces another country or an unsettled region; the marches; the border, confine, or extreme part of a country, bordering on another country;
• FRONTLESS
  Without face or front; shameless; not diffident; impudent. "Frontless vice." Dryden. "Frontless flattery." Pope.
• FRONTON
  See 2
• FRONTIGNAC; FRONTIGNAN
  A grape of many varieties and colors. (more info) 1. A sweet muscadine wine made in Frontignan , France.
• FRONT
  1. The forehead or brow, the part of the face above the eyes; sometimes, also, the whole face. Bless'd with his father's front, his mother's tongue. Pope. Grim-visaged war hath smoothed his wrinkled front. Shak. His front yet threatens, and his
• FRONTISPIECE
  The part which first meets the eye; as: The principal front of a building. An ornamental figure or illustration fronting the first page, or titlepage, of a book; formerly, the titlepage itself. (more info) beginning, front of a church, fr. L. frons
• FRONTINIAC
  See FRONTIGNAC
• FRONTO-
  A combining form signifying relating to the forehead or the frontal bone; as, fronto-parietal, relating to the frontal and the parietal bones; fronto-nasal, etc.
• FRONTINGLY
  In a fronting or facing position; opposingly.
• FRONTAL
  Belonging to the front part; being in front; esp. ,
• FRONTATE; FRONTATED
  Growing broader and broader, as a leaf; truncate.
• WHITE-FRONTED
  Having a white front; as, the white-fronted lemur. White- fronted goose , the white brant, or snow goose. See Snow goose, under Snow.
• CONFRONT
  1. To stand facing or in front of; to face; esp. to face hostilely; to oppose with firmness. We four, indeed, confronted were with four In Russian habit. Shak. He spoke and then confronts the bull. Dryden. Hester caught hold of Pearl, and drew
• CONFRONTATION
  Act of confronting. H. Swinburne.
• EFFRONTUOUSLY
  Impudently. R. North.
• BIFRONTED
  Having two fronts. "Bifronted Janus." Massinger.
• AFFRONTEE
  One who receives an affront. Lytton.
• AFFRONTEDLY
  Shamelessly. Bacon.
• SUPERFRONTAL
  A cloth which is placed over the top of an altar, and often hangs down a few inches over the frontal.
• CONFRONTE
  See AFFRONTé
• CONFRONTMENT
  The act of confronting; the state of being face to face.
• AFFRONT
  affrontare to strike against, fr. L. ad + frons forehead, front. See 1. To front; to face in position; to meet or encounter face to face. All the sea-coasts do affront the Levant. Holland. That he, as 't were by accident, may here Affront Ophelia.