Word Meanings - ABACK - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Backward against the mast;-said of the sails when pressed by the wind. Totten. To be taken aback. To be driven backward against the mast; -- said of the sails, also of the ship when the sails are thus driven. To be suddenly checked, baffled,

Additional info about word: ABACK

Backward against the mast;-said of the sails when pressed by the wind. Totten. To be taken aback. To be driven backward against the mast; -- said of the sails, also of the ship when the sails are thus driven. To be suddenly checked, baffled, or discomfited. Dickens. (more info) 1. Toward the back or rear; backward. "Therewith aback she started." Chaucer. 2. Behind; in the rear. Knolles.

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• CHECKWORK
  Anything made so as to form alternate squares lke those of a checkerboard.
• AGAINSTAND
  To withstand.
• CHECKREIN
  1. A short rein looped over the check hook to prevent a horse from lowering his head; -- called also a bearing rein. 2. A branch rein connecting the driving rein of one horse of a span or pair with the bit of the other horse.
• ABACK
  Backward against the mast;-said of the sails when pressed by the wind. Totten. To be taken aback. To be driven backward against the mast; -- said of the sails, also of the ship when the sails are thus driven. To be suddenly checked, baffled,
• PRESSIROSTRAL
  Of or pertaining to the pressirosters.
• PRESSIVE
  Pressing; urgent; also, oppressive; as, pressive taxation. Bp. Hall.
• BACKWARD; BACKWARDS
  1. With the back in advance or foremost; as, to ride backward. 2. Toward the back; toward the rear; as, to throw the arms backward. 3. On the back, or with the back downward. Thou wilt fall backward. Shak. 4. Toward, or in, past time or events;
• PRESSGANG
  See PRESS
• CHECKLATON
  1. Ciclatoun. 2. Gilded leather. Spenser.
• BAFFLEMENT
  The process or act of baffling, or of being baffled; frustration; check.
• CHECKERBERRY
  A spicy plant and its bright red berry; the wintergreen . Also incorrectly applied to the partridge berry .
• PRESSURAGE
  1. Pressure. 2. The juice of the grape extracted by the press; also, a fee paid for the use of a wine press.
• PRESSURE WIRES
  Wires leading from various points of an electric system to a central station, where a voltmeter indicates the potential of the system at those points.
• PRESSWORK
  The art of printing from the surface of type, plates, or engravings in relief, by means of a press; the work so done. MacKellar.
• PRESSLY
  Closely; concisely.
• CHECKROLL
  A list of servants in a household; -- called also chequer roll.
• CHECKAGE
  1. The act of checking; as, the checkage of a name or of an item in a list. 2. The items, or the amount, to which attention is called by a check or checks.
• CHECKERWORK
  1. Work consisting of or showing checkers varied alternately as to colors or materials. 2. Any aggregate of varied vicissitudes. How strange a checkerwork of Providence is the life of man. De Foe.
• PRESSOR
  Causing, or giving rise to, pressure or to an increase of pressure; as, pressor nerve fibers, stimulation of which excites the vasomotor center, thus causing a stronger contraction of the arteries and consequently an increase of the arterial blood
• AGAINST
  1. Abreast; opposite to; facing; towards; as, against the mouth of a river; -- in this sense often preceded by over. Jacob saw the angels of God come against him. Tyndale. 2. From an opposite direction so as to strike or come in contact with; in
• PICKABACK
  A woman stooping to take a child pickaback. R,Jefferies.
• HOTPRESSED
  Pressed while heat is applied. See Hotpress, v. t.
• HOTPRESS
  To apply to, in conjunction with mechanical pressure, for the purpose of giving a smooth and glosay surface, or to express oil, etc.; as, to hotpress paper, linen, etc.
• SUPPRESSOR
  One who suppresses.
• INCOMPRESSIBLE
  Not compressible; incapable of being reduced by force or pressure into a smaller compass or volume; resisting compression; as, many liquids and solids appear to be almost incompressible. -- In`com*press"i*ble*ness, n.
• INSUPPRESSIBLE
  That can not be suppressed or concealed; irrepressible. Young. -- In`sup*press"i*bly, adv.
• REPRESSIBLE
  Capable of being repressed.
• ESPRESSIVO
  With expression.
• INEXPRESSIBLY
  In an inexpressible manner or degree; unspeakably; unutterably. Spectator.
• IMPRESS
  To take by force for public service; as, to impress sailors or money. The second five thousand pounds impressed for the service of the sick and wounded prisoners. Evelyn. (more info) pref. im- in, on + premere to press. See Press to squeeze, and
• INTROPRESSION
  Pressure acting within.
• REIMPRESS
  To impress anew.