Word Meanings - PREACQUAINT - Book Publishers vocabulary database
To acquaint previously or beforehand. Fielding.
Related words: (words related to PREACQUAINT)
- FIELD
The whole surface of an escutcheon; also, so much of it is shown unconcealed by the different bearings upon it. See Illust. of Fess, where the field is represented as gules , while the fess is argent . 6. An unresticted or favorable opportunity - FIELDING
The act of playing as a fielder. - ACQUAINTANCE
1. A state of being acquainted, or of having intimate, or more than slight or superficial, knowledge; personal knowledge gained by intercourse short of that of friendship or intimacy; as, I know the man; but have no acquaintance with him. Contract - ACQUAINTED
Personally known; familiar. See To be acquainted with, under Acquaint, v. t. - FIELDY
Open, like a field. Wyclif. - FIELDPIECE
A cannon mounted on wheels, for the use of a marching army; a piece of field artillery; -- called also field gun. - ACQUAINTEDNESS
State of being acquainted; degree of acquaintance. Boyle. - ACQUAINTABLE
Easy to be acquainted with; affable. Rom. of R. - FIELDED
Engaged in the field; encamped. To help fielded friends. Shak. - BEFOREHAND
1. In a state of anticipation ore preoccupation; in advance; -- often followed by with. Agricola . . . resolves to be beforehand with the danger. Milton. The last cited author has been beforehand with me. Addison. 2. By way of preparation, - ACQUAINTANT
An acquaintance. Swift. - PREVIOUSLY
Beforehand; antecedently; as, a plan previously formed. - ACQUAINT
Acquainted. - FIELDEN
Consisting of fields. The fielden country also and plains. Holland. - FIELDFARE
a small thrush which breeds in northern Europe and winters in Great Britain. The head, nape, and lower part of the back are ash-colored; the upper part of the back and wing coverts, chestnut; -- called also fellfare. - ACQUAINTANCESHIP
A state of being acquainted; acquaintance. Southey. - FIELDER
A ball payer who stands out in the field to catch or stop balls. - FIELDWORK
Any temporary fortification thrown up by an army in the field; -- commonly in the plural. All works which do not come under the head of permanent fortification are called fieldworks. Wilhelm. - HOMEFIELD
Afield adjacent to its owner's home. Hawthorne. - INFIELD
To inclose, as a field. - DISACQUAINT
To render unacquainted; to make unfamiliar. While my sick heart With dismal smart Is disacquainted never. Herrick. - INACQUAINTANCE
Want of acquaintance. Good. - PREACQUAINTANCE
Previous acquaintance or knowledge. Harris. - PREACQUAINT
To acquaint previously or beforehand. Fielding. - HAYFIELD
A field where grass for hay has been cut; a meadow. Cowper. - CORNFIELD
A field where corn is or has been growing; -- in England, a field of wheat, rye, barley, or oats; in America, a field of Indian corn. - UNACQUAINTANCE
The quality or state of being unacquainted; want of acquaintance; ignorance. He was then in happy unacquaintance with everything connected with that obnoxious cavity. Sir W. Hamilton. - NONACQUAINTANCE
Want of acquaintance; the state of being unacquainted.