Word Meanings - SPINEBACK - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A fish having spines in, or in front of, the dorsal fins.

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• HAVENED
  Sheltered in a haven. Blissful havened both from joy and pain. Keats.
• FRONTIERSMAN
  A man living on the frontier.
• HAVENER
  A harbor master.
• 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
• HAVELOCK
  A light cloth covering for the head and neck, used by soldiers as a protection from sunstroke.
• FRONTAGE
  The front part of an edifice or lot; extent of front.
• 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.
• 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
• HAVENAGE
  Harbor dues; port dues.
• HAVEN
  habe, Dan. havn, Icel. höfn, Sw. hamn; akin to E. have, and hence orig., a holder; or to heave ; or akin to AS. hæf sea, 1. A bay, recess, or inlet of the sea, or the mouth of a river, which affords anchorage and shelter for shipping; a harbor;
• HAVANA
  Of or pertaining to Havana, the capital of the island of Cuba; as, an Havana cigar; -- formerly sometimes written Havannah. -- n.
• HAVERSIAN
  Pertaining to, or discovered by, Clopton Havers, an English physician of the seventeenth century. Haversian canals , the small canals through which the blood vessels ramify in bone.
• FRONTIGNAC; FRONTIGNAN
  A grape of many varieties and colors. (more info) 1. A sweet muscadine wine made in Frontignan , France.
• 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
• 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
• CONFRONTATION
  Act of confronting. H. Swinburne.
• EFFRONTUOUSLY
  Impudently. R. North.
• 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.
• BIFRONTED
  Having two fronts. "Bifronted Janus." Massinger.
• AFFRONTEE
  One who receives an affront. Lytton.