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Word Meanings - OUTFACE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To face or look out of countenance; to resist or bear down by bold looks or effrontery; to brave. Shak. Having outfaced all the world. South.

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  • SOUTHWEST
    Pertaining to, or in the direction of, the southwest; proceeding toward the southwest; coming from the southwest; as, a southwest wind.
  • SOUTHSAY
    See SOOTHSAY
  • HAVENED
    Sheltered in a haven. Blissful havened both from joy and pain. Keats.
  • SOUTHWESTERLY
    To ward or from the southwest; as, a southwesterly course; a southwesterly wind.
  • WORLDLY
    1. Relating to the world; human; common; as, worldly maxims; worldly actions. "I thus neglecting worldly ends." Shak. Many years it hath continued, standing by no other worldly mean but that one only hand which erected it. Hooker. 2. Pertaining
  • SOUTHPAW
    A pitcher who pitches with the left hand.
  • HAVENER
    A harbor master.
  • SOUTHERNLINESS
    Southerliness.
  • SOUTHREN
    Southern. "I am a Southren man." Chaucer.
  • WORLDLY-MINDED
    Devoted to worldly interests; mindful of the affairs of the present life, and forgetful of those of the future; loving and pursuing this world's goods, to the exclusion of piety and attention to spiritual concerns. -- World"ly*mind`ed*ness, n.
  • HAVELOCK
    A light cloth covering for the head and neck, used by soldiers as a protection from sunstroke.
  • WORLD-WIDE
    Extended throughout the world; as, world-wide fame. Tennyson.
  • BRAVENESS
    The quality of state or being brave.
  • BRAVE
    1. A brave person; one who is daring. The star-spangled banner, O,long may it wave O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave. F. S. Key. 2. Specifically, an Indian warrior. 3. A man daring beyond discretion; a bully. Hot braves like thee
  • HAVE
    haven, habben, AS. habben ; akin to OS. hebbian, D. hebben, OFries, hebba, OHG. hab, G. haben, Icel. hafa, Sw. hafva, Dan. have, Goth. haban, and prob. to L. habere, whence F. 1. To hold in possession or control; to own; as, he has a farm. 2.
  • SOUTHSAYER
    See SOOTHSAYER
  • SOUTH; SOUTHERLY
    the old squaw; -- so called in imitation of its cry. Called also southerly, and southerland. See under Old.
  • HAVENAGE
    Harbor dues; port dues.
  • SOUTHING
    Distance of any heavenly body south of the equator; south declination; south latitude. (more info) 1. Tendency or progress southward; as, the southing of the sun. Emerson. 2. The time at which the moon, or other heavenly body, passes the meridian
  • WORLDLING
    A person whose soul is set upon gaining temporal possessions; one devoted to this world and its enjoyments. A foutre for the world and worldlings base. Shak. If we consider the expectations of futurity, the worldling gives up the argument. Rogers.
  • UNRESISTANCE
    Nonresistance; passive submission; irresistance. Bp. Hall.
  • MISBEHAVE
    To behave ill; to conduct one's self improperly; -- often used with a reciprocal pronoun.
  • INSHAVE
    A plane for shaving or dressing the concave or inside faces of barrel staves.
  • UNRESISTED
    1. Not resisted; unopposed. Bentley. 2. Resistless; as, unresisted fate. Pope.
  • COUNTENANCE
    demeanor, composure, F. contenance demeanor, fr. L. continentia continence, LL. also, demeanor, fr. L. continere to hold together, 1. Appearance or expression of the face; look; aspect; mien. So spake the Son, and into terror changed
  • IRRESISTIBLENESS
    Quality of being irrestible.

 

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