Word Meanings - SEAWARD - Book Publishers vocabulary database
Directed or situated toward the sea. Donne. Two still clouds . . . sparkled on their seaward edges like a frosted fleece. G. W. Cable.
Related words: (words related to SEAWARD)
- STILLY
Still; quiet; calm. The stilly hour when storms are gone. Moore. - FROSTED
Covered with hoarfrost or anything resembling hoarfrost; ornamented with frosting; also, frost-bitten; as, a frosted cake; frosted glass. Frosted work is introduced as a foil or contrast to burnished work. Knight. - DIRECT CURRENT
A current flowing in one direction only; -- distinguished from alternating current. When steady and not pulsating a direct current is often called a continuous current. A direct induced current, or momentary current of the same direction as the - DIRECTER
One who directs; a director. Directer plane , the plane to which all right-lined elements in a warped surface are parallel. - STILLBIRTH
The birth of a dead fetus. - 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 - DIRECT ACTION
See BELOW - STILLSTAND
A standstill. Shak. - DIRECT NOMINATION
The nomination or designation of candidates for public office by direct popular vote rather than through the action of a convention or body of elected nominating representatives or delegates. The term is applied both to the nomination of candidates - DIRECTRIX
1. A directress. Jer. Taylor. A line along which a point in another line moves, or which in any way governs the motion of the point and determines the position of the curve generated by it; the line along which the generatrix moves in generating - TOWARDNESS
Quality or state of being toward. - STILLING
A stillion. - SITUATE
To place. Landor. - SPARKLER
One who scatters; esp., one who scatters money; an improvident person. - STILLAGE
A low stool to keep the goods from touching the floor. Knight. - FROSTILY
In a frosty manner. - FROST-BITTEN
Nipped, withered, or injured, by frost or freezing. - SPARKLING
Emitting sparks; glittering; flashing; brilliant; lively; as, sparkling wine; sparkling eyes. -- Spar"kling*ly, adv. -- Spar"kling*ness, n. Syn. -- Brilliant; shining. See Shining. - DIRECT
In the direction of the general planetary motion, or from west to east; in the order of the signs; not retrograde; -- said of the motion of a celestial body. Direct action. See Direct-acting. -- Direct discourse , the language of any one quoted - APPLICABLE
Capable of being applied; fit or suitable to be applied; having relevance; as, this observation is applicable to the case under consideration. -- Ap"pli*ca*ble*ness, n. -- Ap"pli*ca*bly, adv. - VOCABLE
A word; a term; a name; specifically, a word considered as composed of certain sounds or letters, without regard to its meaning. Swamped near to drowning in a tide of ingenious vocables. Carlyle. (more info) fr. vocare to call, fr. vox, vocis, - UNPLACABLE
Implacable. - INSTILL
To drop in; to pour in drop by drop; hence, to impart gradually; to infuse slowly; to cause to be imbibed. That starlight dews All silently their tears of love instill. Byron. How hast thou instilled Thy malice into thousands. Milton. Syn. -- To - PROGNOSTICABLE
Capable of being prognosticated or foretold. Sir T. Browne. - IMMEDICABLE
Not to be healed; incurable. "Wounds immedicable." Milton. - PISTILLIFEROUS
Pistillate. - OUTSPARKLE
To exceed in sparkling. - INEXPLICABLE
Not explicable; not explainable; incapable of being explained, interpreted, or accounted for; as, an inexplicable mystery. "An inexplicable scratching." Cowper. Their reason is disturbed; their views become vast and perplexed, to others - MULTIPLICABLE
Capable of being multiplied; multipliable. - DISTILLABLE
Capable of being distilled; especially, capable of being distilled without chemical change or decomposition; as, alcohol is distillable; olive oil is not distillable. - DISTILLATION
The separation of the volatile parts of a substance from the more fixed; specifically, the operation of driving off gas or vapor from volatile liquids or solids, by heat in a retort or still, and the condensation of the products as far as possible - FINESTILLER
One who finestills. - ERADICABLE
Capable of being eradicated.