Word Meanings - FORESKIRT - Book Publishers vocabulary database
The front skirt of a garment, in distinction from the train. Honor's train Is longer than his foreskirt. Shak.
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- FRONTIERSMAN
A man living on the frontier. - HONORABLE
1. Worthy of honor; fit to be esteemed or regarded; estimable; illustrious. Thy name and honorable family. Shak. 2. High-minded; actuated by principles of honor, or a scrupulous regard to probity, rectitude, or reputation. 3. Proceeding from an - 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 - GARMENT
Any article of clothing, as a coat, a gown, etc. No man putteth a piece of new cloth unto old garment. Matt. ix. 16. - FRONTAGE
The front part of an edifice or lot; extent of front. - HONORABLENESS
1. The state of being honorable; eminence; distinction. 2. Conformity to the principles of honor, probity, or moral rectitude; fairness; uprightness; reputableness. - SKIRTING
A skirting board. 2. Skirts, taken collectivelly; material for skirts. Skirting board, the board running around a room on the wall next the floor; baseboard. - TRAINING
The act of one who trains; the act or process of exercising, disciplining, etc.; education. Fan training , the operation of training fruit trees, grapevines, etc., so that the branches shall radiate from the stem like a fan. -- Horizontal training - FORESKIRT
The front skirt of a garment, in distinction from the train. Honor's train Is longer than his foreskirt. Shak. - TRAINABLE
Capable of being trained or educated; as, boys trainable to virtue. Richardson. - 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 - GARMENTURE
Clothing; dress. - HONOR
1. Esteem due or paid to worth; high estimation; respect; consideration; reverence; veneration; manifestation of respect or reverence. A prophet is not without honor, save in his own country. Matt. xiii. - SKIRT
1. The lower and loose part of a coat, dress, or other like garment; the part below the waist; as, the skirt of a coat, a dress, or a mantle. 2. A loose edging to any part of a dress. A narrow lace, or a small skirt of ruffled linen, which runs - DISTINCTION
1. A marking off by visible signs; separation into parts; division. The distinction of tragedy into acts was not known. Dryden. 2. The act of distinguishing or denoting the differences between objects, or the qualities by which one is known from - 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. - STRAINABLE
1. Capable of being strained. 2. Violent in action. Holinshed. - 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 - RESTRAINABLE
Capable of being restrained; controllable. Sir T. Browne. - DISTRAINER
See DISTRAINOR - HALF-STRAINED
Half-bred; imperfect. "A half-strained villain." Dryden. - CONFRONTATION
Act of confronting. H. Swinburne. - INDISTINCTION
Want of distinction or distinguishableness; confusion; uncertainty; indiscrimination. The indistinction of many of the same name . . . hath made some doubt. Sir T. Browne. An indistinction of all persons, or equality of all orders, is far from being - EFFRONTUOUSLY
Impudently. R. North. - UPTRAIN
To train up; to educate. "Daughters which were well uptrained." Spenser. - CORRIDOR TRAIN
A train whose coaches are connected so as to have through its entire length a continuous corridor, into which the compartments open.