Word Meanings - CASTLING - Book Publishers vocabulary database

That which is cast or brought forth prematurely; an abortion. Sir T. Browne.

Related words: (words related to CASTLING)

• FORTHPUTING
  Bold; forward; aggressive.
• FORTHCOMING
  Ready or about to appear; making appearance.
• FORTHY
  Therefore. Spenser.
• ABORTION
  Arrest of development of any organ, so that it remains an imperfect formation or is absorbed. 4. Any fruit or produce that does not come to maturity, or anything which in its progress, before it is matured or perfect; a complete failure; as, his
• FORTHWARD
  Forward. Bp. Fisher.
• WHICHEVER; WHICHSOEVER
  Whether one or another; whether one or the other; which; that one which; as, whichever road you take, it will lead you to town.
• FORTHRIGHTNESS
  Straightforwardness; explicitness; directness. Dante's concise forthrightness of phrase. Hawthorne.
• WHICH
  the root of hwa who + lic body; hence properly, of what sort or kind; akin to OS. hwilik which, OFries. hwelik, D. welk, G. welch, OHG. welih, hwelih, Icel. hvilikr, Dan. & Sw. hvilken, Goth. hwileiks, 1. Of what sort or kind; what; what a; who.
• FORTHINK
  To repent; to regret; to be sorry for; to cause regret. "Let it forthink you." Tyndale. That me forthinketh, quod this January. Chaucer.
• ABORTIONAL
  Pertaining to abortion; miscarrying; abortive. Carlyle.
• 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.
• ABORTIONIST
  One who procures abortion or miscarriage.
• FORTHRIGHT
  Straight forward; in a straight direction. Sir P. Sidney.
• 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
• FORTHBY
  See FORBY
• 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.