Word Meanings - PREACQUAINT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To acquaint previously or beforehand. Fielding.

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• FIELD
  The whole surface of an escutcheon; also, so much of it is shown unconcealed by the different bearings upon it. See Illust. of Fess, where the field is represented as gules , while the fess is argent . 6. An unresticted or favorable opportunity
• FIELDING
  The act of playing as a fielder.
• ACQUAINTANCE
  1. A state of being acquainted, or of having intimate, or more than slight or superficial, knowledge; personal knowledge gained by intercourse short of that of friendship or intimacy; as, I know the man; but have no acquaintance with him. Contract
• ACQUAINTED
  Personally known; familiar. See To be acquainted with, under Acquaint, v. t.
• FIELDY
  Open, like a field. Wyclif.
• FIELDPIECE
  A cannon mounted on wheels, for the use of a marching army; a piece of field artillery; -- called also field gun.
• ACQUAINTEDNESS
  State of being acquainted; degree of acquaintance. Boyle.
• ACQUAINTABLE
  Easy to be acquainted with; affable. Rom. of R.
• FIELDED
  Engaged in the field; encamped. To help fielded friends. Shak.
• BEFOREHAND
  1. In a state of anticipation ore preoccupation; in advance; -- often followed by with. Agricola . . . resolves to be beforehand with the danger. Milton. The last cited author has been beforehand with me. Addison. 2. By way of preparation,
• ACQUAINTANT
  An acquaintance. Swift.
• PREVIOUSLY
  Beforehand; antecedently; as, a plan previously formed.
• ACQUAINT
  Acquainted.
• FIELDEN
  Consisting of fields. The fielden country also and plains. Holland.
• FIELDFARE
  a small thrush which breeds in northern Europe and winters in Great Britain. The head, nape, and lower part of the back are ash-colored; the upper part of the back and wing coverts, chestnut; -- called also fellfare.
• ACQUAINTANCESHIP
  A state of being acquainted; acquaintance. Southey.
• FIELDER
  A ball payer who stands out in the field to catch or stop balls.
• FIELDWORK
  Any temporary fortification thrown up by an army in the field; -- commonly in the plural. All works which do not come under the head of permanent fortification are called fieldworks. Wilhelm.
• HOMEFIELD
  Afield adjacent to its owner's home. Hawthorne.
• INFIELD
  To inclose, as a field.
• DISACQUAINT
  To render unacquainted; to make unfamiliar. While my sick heart With dismal smart Is disacquainted never. Herrick.
• INACQUAINTANCE
  Want of acquaintance. Good.
• PREACQUAINTANCE
  Previous acquaintance or knowledge. Harris.
• PREACQUAINT
  To acquaint previously or beforehand. Fielding.
• HAYFIELD
  A field where grass for hay has been cut; a meadow. Cowper.
• CORNFIELD
  A field where corn is or has been growing; -- in England, a field of wheat, rye, barley, or oats; in America, a field of Indian corn.
• UNACQUAINTANCE
  The quality or state of being unacquainted; want of acquaintance; ignorance. He was then in happy unacquaintance with everything connected with that obnoxious cavity. Sir W. Hamilton.
• NONACQUAINTANCE
  Want of acquaintance; the state of being unacquainted.