Word Meanings - CONFRONTING - Book Publishers vocabulary database

dealing with directly; taking the bull by the horns. Syn. -- braving, coping with, grappling, tackling.

Related words: (words related to CONFRONTING)

• TACKLE
  The rigging and apparatus of a ship; also, any purchase where more than one block is used. Fall and tackle. See the Note under Pulley. -- Fishing tackle. See under Fishing, a. -- Ground tackle , anchors, cables, etc. -- Gun tackle, the apparatus
• COPYING
  From Copy, v. Copying ink. See under Ink. -- Copying paper, thin unsized paper used for taking copies of letters, etc., in a copying press. -- Copying press, a machine for taking by pressure, an exact copy of letters, etc., written in copying ink.
• COPROLITE
  A piece of petrified dung; a fossil excrement.
• COPATAIN
  Having a high crown, or a point or peak at top. A copatain hat made on a Flemish block. Gascoigne.
• TAKING
  1. Apt to take; alluring; attracting. Subtile in making his temptations most taking. Fuller. 2. Infectious; contageous. Beau. & Fl. -- Tak"ing*ly, adv. -- Tak"ing*ness, n.
• COPYHOLDER
  One possessed of land in copyhold. A device for holding copy for a compositor. One who reads copy to a proof reader.
• COPED
  Clad in a cope.
• COPIST
  A copier. "A copist after nature." Shaftesbury.
• COPEMAN
  A chapman; a dealer; a merchant. He would have sold his part of paradise For ready money, had he met a copeman. B. Jonson.
• COPARCENARY
  Partnership in inheritance; joint heirship; joint right of sucession to an inheritance.
• DEALBATION
  Act of bleaching; a whitening.
• COPE
  The top part of a flask or mold; the outer part of a loam mold. Knight. De Colange. (more info) 1. A covering for the head. Johnson. 2. Anything regarded as extended over the head, as the arch or concave of the sky, the roof of a house, the arch
• COPULATE
  Joining subject and predicate; copulative. F. A. March. (more info) 1. Joined; associated; coupled. Bacon.
• HORNSTONE
  A siliceous stone, a variety of quartz, closely resembling flint, but more brittle; -- called also chert.
• DEALFISH
  A long, thin fish of the arctic seas .
• COPPER-FACED
  Faced or covered with copper; as, copper-faced type.
• COPYIST
  A copier; a transcriber; an imitator; a plagiarist.
• COPROPHAGAN
  A kind of beetle which feeds upon dung.
• COPARTMENT
  A compartment. T. Warton.
• BRAVENESS
  The quality of state or being brave.
• ONEIROSCOPY
  The interpretation of dreams.
• HAEMATOSCOPE
  A hæmoscope.
• HYGROSCOPICITY
  The property possessed by vegetable tissues of absorbing or discharging moisture according to circumstances.
• THYROIDEAL
  Thyroid.
• LACTOSCOPE
  An instrument for estimating the amount of cream contained in milk by ascertaining its relative opacity.
• THORNSET
  Set with thorns. Dyer.
• METEOROSCOPE
  An astrolabe; a planisphere. An instrument for measuring the position, length, and direction, of the apparent path of a shooting star.
• ENTERDEAL
  Mutual dealings; intercourse. The enterdeal of princes strange. Spenser.
• UNMISTAKABLE
  Incapable of being mistaken or misunderstood; clear; plain; obvious; evident. -- Un`mis*tak"a*bly, adv.
• OTOSCOPEIC
  Of or pertaining to the otoscope or to otoscopy.
• SCOPELINE
  Scopeloid.
• LYCOPODE
  See LYCOPODIUM
• ENDOSCOPE
  An instrument for examining the interior of the rectum, the urethra, and the bladder.