Word Meanings - JANUS-FACED - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Double-faced; deceitful. Janus-faced lock, one having duplicate faces so as to go upon a right or a left hand door, the key entering on either side indifferently. Knight.

Related words: (words related to JANUS-FACED)

• KNIGHTLESS
  Unbecoming a knight. "Knightless guile." Spenser.
• RIGHT-RUNNING
  Straight; direct.
• FACETIAE
  Witty or humorous writings or saying; witticisms; merry conceits.
• ENTERPARLANCE
  Mutual talk or conversation; conference. Sir J. Hayward.
• FACIES
  The general aspect or habit of a species, or group of species, esp. with reference to its adaptation to its environment. (more info) 1. The anterior part of the head; the face.
• ENTERPRISER
  One who undertakes enterprises. Sir J. Hayward.
• FACILITATION
  The act of facilitating or making easy.
• HAVENED
  Sheltered in a haven. Blissful havened both from joy and pain. Keats.
• FACIEND
  The multiplicand. See Facient,
• ENTERDEAL
  Mutual dealings; intercourse. The enterdeal of princes strange. Spenser.
• FACUND
  Eloquent.
• HAVENER
  A harbor master.
• DOUBLEGANGER
  An apparition or double of a living person; a doppelgänger. Either you are Hereward, or you are his doubleganger. C. Kingsley.
• DOUBLE
  Having the petals in a flower considerably increased beyond the natural number, usually as the result of cultivation and the expense of the stamens, or stamens and pistils. The white water lily and some other plants have their blossoms naturally
• DOUBLE-SHADE
  To double the natural darkness of . Milton.
• DOUBLE-LOCK
  To lock with two bolts; to fasten with double security. Tatler.
• RIGHTEOUSNESS
  The state of being right with God; justification; the work of Christ, which is the ground justification. There are two kinds of Christian righteousness: the one without us, which we have by imputation; the other in us, which consisteth of faith,
• FACTIOUS
  1. Given to faction; addicted to form parties and raise dissensions, in opposition to government or the common good; turbulent; seditious; prone to clamor against public measures or men; -- said of persons. Factious for the house of Lancaster.
• INDIFFERENTLY
  In an indifferent manner; without distinction or preference; impartially; without concern, wish, affection, or aversion; tolerably; passably. That they may truly and indifferently minister justice, to the punishment of wickedness and vice, and to
• FACTION
  One of the divisions or parties of charioteers (distinguished by their colors) in the games of the circus. 2. A party, in political society, combined or acting in union, in opposition to the government, or state; -- usually applied to a minority,
• CREAM-FACED
  White or pale, as the effect of fear, or as the natural complexion. Thou cream-faced loon. Shak.
• BAREFACEDNESS
  The quality of being barefaced; shamelessness; assurance; audaciousness.
• CHYLIFACTIVE
  Producing, or converting into, chyle; having the power to form chyle.
• MESENTERY
  The membranes, or one of the membranes (consisting of a fold of the peritoneum and inclosed tissues), which connect the intestines and their appendages with the dorsal wall of the abdominal cavity. The mesentery proper is connected with the jejunum
• CONCENTER; CONCENTRE
  To come to one point; to meet in, or converge toward, a common center; to have a common center. God, in whom all perfections concenter. Bp. Beveridge.
• BRIGHT
  See I
• CRABFACED
  Having a sour, disagreeable countenance. Beau & Fl.
• UNKNIGHT
  To deprive of knighthood. Fuller.
• TEMPOROFACIAL
  Of or pertaining to both the temple and the face.
• OLFACTOR
  A smelling organ; a nose.