Word Meanings - LEFTWARD - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Toward or on the left side. Rightward and leftward rise the rocks. Southey.

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.
LEFTWARD
Toward or on the left side. Rightward and leftward rise the rocks. Southey.
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.
ROCKSUCKER
A lamprey.
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.
RIGHTWARD
Toward the right. Rightward and leftward rise the rocks. Southey.
UNTOWARDLY
Perverse; froward; untoward. "Untowardly tricks and vices." Locke.
UNTOWARD
Toward. Gower.
LONGMYND ROCKS
The sparingly fossiliferous conglomerates, grits, schists, and states of Great Britain, which lie at the base of the Cambrian system; -- so called, because typically developed in the Longmynd Hills, Shropshire.