Word Meanings - FOOTBOARD - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. A board or narrow platfrom upon which one may stand or brace his feet; as: The platform for the engineer and fireman of a locomotive. The foot-rest of a coachman's box. 2. A board forming the foot of a bedstead. 3. A treadle.

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• FORMALITY
  The dress prescribed for any body of men, academical, municipal, or sacerdotal. The doctors attending her in their formalities as far as Shotover. Fuller. 6. That which is formal; the formal part. It unties the inward knot of marriage, . . . while
• FORMICARY
  The nest or dwelling of a swarm of ants; an ant-hill.
• FORMULIZE
  To reduce to a formula; to formulate. Emerson.
• FORMERLY
  In time past, either in time immediately preceding or at any indefinite distance; of old; heretofore.
• FORMICAROID
  Like or pertaining to the family Formicaridæ or ant thrushes.
• FORMIDABLY
  In a formidable manner.
• STANDARD
  The proportion of weights of fine metal and alloy established by authority. By the present standard of the coinage, sixty-two shillings is coined out of one pound weight of silver. Arbuthnot. (more info) extendere to spread out, extend,
• STANDPOINT
  A fixed point or station; a basis or fundamental principle; a position from which objects or principles are viewed, and according to which they are compared and judged.
• COACHMAN
  A tropical fish of the Atlantic ocean ; -- called also charioteer. The name refers to a long, lashlike spine of the dorsal fin. (more info) 1. A man whose business is to drive a coach or carriage.
• FORMICATE
  Resembling, or pertaining to, an ant or ants.
• STANDPIPE
  A vertical pipe, open at the top, between a hydrant and a reservoir, to equalize the flow of water; also, a large vertical pipe, near a pumping engine, into which water is forced up, so as to give it sufficient head to rise to the required level
• FORME
  See PATTé
• FORMEDON
  A writ of right for a tenant in tail in case of a discontinuance of the estate tail. This writ has been abolished.
• FORMAT
  The shape and size of a book; hence, its external form. The older manuscripts had been written in a much larger format than that found convenient for university work. G. H. Putnam. One might, indeed, protest that the format is a little
• 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.
• COACHMANSHIP
  Skill in driving a coach.
• FORMYL
  A univalent radical, H.C:O, regarded as the essential residue of formic acid and aldehyde. Formerly, the radical methyl, CH3.
• NARROW-MINDED
  Of narrow mental scope; illiberal; mean. -- Nar"row-mind`ed*ness, n.
• FORMALIZE
  1. To give form, or a certain form, to; to model. 2. To render formal.
• FORMAL
  1. Belonging to the form, shape, frame, external appearance, or organization of a thing. 2. Belonging to the constitution of a thing, as distinguished from the matter composing it; having the power of making a thing what it is; constituent;
• FALCIFORM
  Having the shape of a scithe or sickle; resembling a reaping hook; as, the falciform ligatment of the liver.
• COUNTERBRACE
  To brace in opposite directions; as, to counterbrace the yards, i. e., to brace the head yards one way and the after yards another.
• INFORMITY
  Want of regular form; shapelessness.
• OMNIFORMITY
  The condition or quality of having every form. Dr. H. More.
• DEFORMER
  One who deforms.
• DIVERSIFORM
  Of a different form; of varied forms.
• VARIFORM
  Having different shapes or forms.
• PREFORM
  To form beforehand, or for special ends. "Their natures and preformed faculties. " Shak.
• RESINIFORM
  Having the form of resin.
• BIFORM
  Having two forms, bodies, or shapes. Croxall.
• VILLIFORM
  Having the form or appearance of villi; like close-set fibers, either hard or soft; as, the teeth of perch are villiform.
• REFORMALIZE
  To affect reformation; to pretend to correctness.
• FULL-FORMED
  Full in form or shape; rounded out with flesh. The full-formed maids of Afric. Thomson.
• SCORIFORM
  In the form of scoria.
• REFORMATIVE
  Forming again; having the quality of renewing form; reformatory. Good.
• MALCONFORMATION
  Imperfect, disproportionate, or abnormal formation; ill form; disproportion of parts.
• PENNIFORM
  Having the form of a feather or plume.
• DENDRIFORM
  Resembling in structure a tree or shrub.
• WELL-INFORMED
  Correctly informed; provided with information; well furnished with authentic knowledge; intelligent.