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Word Meanings - PREDORSAL - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Situated in front of the back; immediately in front, or on the ventral side the dorsal part of the vertebral column.

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  • FRONTIERSMAN
    A man living on the frontier.
  • FRONTIERED
    Placed on the frontiers.
  • FRONTLESSLY
    Shamelessly; impudently.
  • FRONTED
    Formed with a front; drawn up in line. "Fronted brigades." Milton.
  • FRONTLET
    The margin of the head, behind the bill of birds, often bearing rigid bristles. (more info) 1. A frontal or brow band; a fillet or band worn on the forehead. They shall be as frontlets between thine eyes. Deut. vi. 8. 2. A frown . What makes that
  • FRONTAGE
    The front part of an edifice or lot; extent of front.
  • COLUMN
    A kind of pillar; a cylindrical or polygonal support for a roof, ceiling, statue, etc., somewhat ornamented, and usually composed of base, shaft, and capital. See Order. 2. Anything resembling, in form or position, a column an architecture;
  • VERTEBRAL
    Of or pertaining to a vertebræ, or the vertebral column; spinal; rachidian. 2. Vertebrate.
  • SITUATE
    To place. Landor.
  • COLUMNARITY
    The state or quality of being columnar.
  • FRONTIER
    An outwork. Palisadoes, frontiers, parapets. Shak. (more info) 1. That part of a country which fronts or faces another country or an unsettled region; the marches; the border, confine, or extreme part of a country, bordering on another country;
  • DORSALLY
    On, or toward, the dorsum, or back; on the dorsal side of; dorsad.
  • FRONTLESS
    Without face or front; shameless; not diffident; impudent. "Frontless vice." Dryden. "Frontless flattery." Pope.
  • FRONTON
    See 2
  • SITUATE; SITUATED
    1. Having a site, situation, or location; being in a relative position; permanently fixed; placed; located; as, a town situated, or situate, on a hill or on the seashore. 2. Placed; residing. Pleasure situate in hill and dale. Milton. Note: Situate
  • FRONTIGNAC; FRONTIGNAN
    A grape of many varieties and colors. (more info) 1. A sweet muscadine wine made in Frontignan , France.
  • COLUMNIATION
    The employment or arrangement of columns in a structure. Gwilt.
  • FRONT
    1. The forehead or brow, the part of the face above the eyes; sometimes, also, the whole face. Bless'd with his father's front, his mother's tongue. Pope. Grim-visaged war hath smoothed his wrinkled front. Shak. His front yet threatens, and his
  • FRONTISPIECE
    The part which first meets the eye; as: The principal front of a building. An ornamental figure or illustration fronting the first page, or titlepage, of a book; formerly, the titlepage itself. (more info) beginning, front of a church, fr. L. frons
  • FRONTINIAC
    See FRONTIGNAC
  • WHITE-FRONTED
    Having a white front; as, the white-fronted lemur. White- fronted goose , the white brant, or snow goose. See Snow goose, under Snow.
  • CONFRONT
    1. To stand facing or in front of; to face; esp. to face hostilely; to oppose with firmness. We four, indeed, confronted were with four In Russian habit. Shak. He spoke and then confronts the bull. Dryden. Hester caught hold of Pearl, and drew
  • DORSIVENTRAL
    Having distinct upper and lower surfaces, as most common leaves. The leaves of the iris are not dorsiventral.
  • SACROVERTEBRAL
    Of or pertaining to the sacrum and that part of the vertebral column immediately anterior to it; as, the sacrovertebral angle.
  • SEMICOLUMNAR
    Like a semicolumn; flat on one side and round on the other; imperfectly columnar.
  • CONFRONTATION
    Act of confronting. H. Swinburne.
  • DORSOVENTRAL
    From the dorsal to the ventral side of an animal; as, the dorsoventral axis.
  • EFFRONTUOUSLY
    Impudently. R. North.
  • AFFRONTEE
    One who receives an affront. Lytton.
  • BIFRONTED
    Having two fronts. "Bifronted Janus." Massinger.

 

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