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Word Meanings - BACKSTITCH - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A stitch made by setting the needle back of the end of the last stitch, and bringing it out in front of the end.

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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
  • NEEDLESS
    1. Having no need. Weeping into the needless stream. Shak. 2. Not wanted; unnecessary; not requiste; as, needless labor; needless expenses. 3. Without sufficient cause; groundless; cuseless. "Needless jealousy." Shak. -- Need"less*ly,
  • FRONTAGE
    The front part of an edifice or lot; extent of front.
  • NEEDLESTONE
    Natrolite; -- called also needle zeolite.
  • SETTLEMENT
    A disposition of property for the benefit of some person or persons, usually through the medium of trustees, and for the benefit of a wife, children, or other relatives; jointure granted to a wife, or the act of granting it. 2. That which settles,
  • SETT
    See 3
  • NEEDLEWOMAN
    A woman who does needlework; a seamstress.
  • SETTER
    A hunting dog of a special breed originally derived from a cross between the spaniel and the pointer. Modern setters are usually trained to indicate the position of game birds by standing in a fixed position, but originally they indicated it by
  • 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;
  • FRONTLESS
    Without face or front; shameless; not diffident; impudent. "Frontless vice." Dryden. "Frontless flattery." Pope.
  • STITCH
    A space of work taken up, or gone over, in a single pass of the needle; hence, by extension, any space passed over; distance. You have gone a good stitch. Bunyan. In Syria the husbandmen go lightly over with their plow, and take no deep stitch in
  • FRONTON
    See 2
  • BRINGER
    One who brings. Yet the first bringer of unwelcome news Hath but a losing office. Shak. Bringer in, one who, or that which, introduces.
  • NEEDLE
    One of the needle-shaped secondary leaves of pine trees. See Pinus. 5. Any slender, pointed object, like a needle, as a pointed crystal, a sharp pinnacle of rock, an obelisk, etc. Dipping needle. See under Dipping. -- Needle bar, the reciprocating
  • FRONTIGNAC; FRONTIGNAN
    A grape of many varieties and colors. (more info) 1. A sweet muscadine wine made in Frontignan , France.
  • SETTEE
    A long seat with a back, -- made to accommodate several persons at once.
  • 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
  • UPSETTING
    Conceited; assuming; as, an upsetting fellow. Jamieson.
  • TYPESETTING
    The act or art of setting type.
  • ROSETTA WOOD
    An east Indian wood of a reddish orange color, handsomely veined with darker marks. It is occasionally used for cabinetwork. Ure.
  • SUNSET; SUNSETTING
    1. The descent of the sun below the horizon; also, the time when the sun sets; evening. Also used figuratively. 'T is the sunset of life gives me mystical lore. Campbell. 2. Hence, the region where the sun sets; the west. Sunset shell , a West
  • BACKSTITCH
    A stitch made by setting the needle back of the end of the last stitch, and bringing it out in front of the end.
  • CONFRONTATION
    Act of confronting. H. Swinburne.
  • FRISETTE; FRIZETTE
    a fringe of hair or curls worn about the forehead by women.
  • EFFRONTUOUSLY
    Impudently. R. North.
  • HEMSTITCHED
    Having a broad hem separated from the body of the article by a line of open work; as, a hemistitched handkerchief.
  • BLANKET STITCH
    A buttonhole stitch worked wide apart on the edge of material, as blankets, too thick to hem.

 

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