Word Meanings - FRONTIERED - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Placed on the frontiers.

Related words: (words related to FRONTIERED)

• PLACODERMATA
  See PLACODERMI
• FRONTIERSMAN
  A man living on the frontier.
• PLACEMENT
  1. The act of placing, or the state of being placed. 2. Position; place.
• PLACENTARY
  Having reference to the placenta; as, the placentary system of classification.
• PLACE-KICK
  To make a place kick; to make by a place kick. -- Place"-kick`er, n.
• PLACID
  Pleased; contented; unruffied; undisturbed; serene; peaceful; tranquil; quiet; gentle. "That placid aspect and meek regard." Milton. "Sleeping . . . the placid sleep of infancy." Macaulay.
• PLACIT
  A decree or determination; a dictum. "The placits and opinions of other philosophers." Evelyn.
• PLACOPHORA
  A division of gastropod Mollusca, including the chitons. The back is covered by eight shelly plates. Called also Polyplacophora. See Illust. under Chiton, and Isopleura.
• PLACER
  One who places or sets. Spenser.
• PLACIDNESS
  The quality or state of being placid.
• PLACE
  Position in the heavens, as of a heavenly body; -- usually defined by its right ascension and declination, or by its latitude and longitude. Place of arms , a place calculated for the rendezvous of men in arms, etc., as a fort which affords a safe
• PLACOIDIAN
  One of the placoids.
• PLACABLENESS
  The quality of being placable.
• PLACITORY
  Of or pertaining to pleas or pleading, in courts of law. Clayton.
• PLACENTA
  The vascular appendage which connects the fetus with the parent, and is cast off in parturition with the afterbirth. Note: In most mammals the placenta is principally developed from the allantois and chorion, and tufts of vascular villi
• PLACKET
  1. A petticoat, esp. an under petticoat; hence, a cant term for a woman. Beau. & Fl. 2. The opening or slit left in a petticoat or skirt for convenience in putting it on; -- called also placket hole. 3. A woman's pocket.
• PLACOGANOIDEI
  A division of ganoid fishes including those that have large external bony plates and a cartilaginous skeleton.
• PLACEMAN
  One who holds or occupies a place; one who has office under government. Sir W. Scott.
• PLACENTIOUS
  Pleasing; amiable. "A placentious person." Fuller.
• PLACODERMAL
  Of or pertaining to the placoderms; like the placoderms.
• UNPLACABLE
  Implacable.
• REPLACEMENT
  The removal of an edge or an angle by one or more planes. (more info) 1. The act of replacing.
• COMPLACENCE; COMPLACENCY
  1. Calm contentment; satisfaction; gratification. The inward complacence we find in acting reasonably and virtuously. Atterbury. Others proclaim the infirmities of a great man with satisfaction and complacency, if they discover none of the like
• APLACENTAL
  Belonging to the Aplacentata; without placenta.
• DISPLACER
  The funnel part of the apparatus for solution by displacement. (more info) 1. One that displaces.
• BY-PLACE
  A retired or private place.