bell notificationshomepageloginedit profileclubsdmBox

Search word meanings:

Word Meanings - SHUTTLEWISE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Back and forth, like the movement of a shuttle.

Related words: (words related to SHUTTLEWISE)

  • FORTHPUTING
    Bold; forward; aggressive.
  • FORTHCOMING
    Ready or about to appear; making appearance.
  • FORTHY
    Therefore. Spenser.
  • FORTHWARD
    Forward. Bp. Fisher.
  • FORTHRIGHTNESS
    Straightforwardness; explicitness; directness. Dante's concise forthrightness of phrase. Hawthorne.
  • SHUTTLEWISE
    Back and forth, like the movement of a shuttle.
  • FORTHINK
    To repent; to regret; to be sorry for; to cause regret. "Let it forthink you." Tyndale. That me forthinketh, quod this January. Chaucer.
  • FORTHWITH
    As soon as the thing required may be done by reasonable exertion confined to that object. Bouvier. (more info) 1. Immediately; without delay; directly. Immediately there fell from his eyes as it had been scales; and he received sight forthwith.
  • FORTHGOING
    A going forth; an utterance. A. Chalmers.
  • FORTHRIGHT
    Straight forward; in a straight direction. Sir P. Sidney.
  • MOVEMENT
    A system of mechanism for transmitting motion of a definite character, or for transforming motion; as, the wheelwork of a watch. Febrille movement , an elevation of the body temperature; a fever. -- Movement cure. See Kinesiatrics. -- Movement
  • FORTH
    1. Forward; onward in time, place, or order; in advance from a given point; on to end; as, from that day forth; one, two, three, and so forth. Lucas was Paul's companion, at the leastway from the sixteenth of the Acts forth. Tyndale. From this
  • SHUTTLECORK
    See SHUTTLECOCK
  • SHUTTLE
    OE. schitel a bolt of a door, AS. scyttes; all from AS. sceĆ³tan to shoot; akin to Dan. skyttel, skytte, shuttle, dial. Sw. skyttel, 1. An instrument used in weaving for passing or shooting the thread of the woof from one side of the cloth to the
  • FORTHBY
    See FORBY
  • SHUTTLECOCK
    A cork stuck with feathers, which is to be struck by a battledoor in play; also, the play itself.
  • WHENCEFORTH
    From, or forth from, what or which place; whence. Spenser.
  • HOLDER-FORTH
    One who speaks in public; an haranguer; a preacher. Addison.
  • WITHOUTFORTH
    Without; outside' outwardly. Cf. Withinforth. Chaucer.
  • THENCEFORTH
    From that time; thereafter. If the salt have lost his savor, wherewith shall it be salted it is thenceforth good for nothing. Matt. v. 13. Note: This word is sometimes preceded by from, -- a redundancy sanctioned by custom. Chaucer. John. xix. 12.
  • FERFORTH
    Far forth. As ferforth as, as far as. -- So ferforth, to such a degree.
  • STRAIGHTFORTH
    Straightway.
  • FERFORTHLY
    Ferforth. Chaucer.

 

Back to top