Word Meanings - SOUTHWEST - Book Publishers vocabulary database
The point of the compass equally from the south and the west; the southwest part or region.
Related words: (words related to SOUTHWEST)
- SOUTHSAY
See SOOTHSAY - COMPASSIONATELY
In a compassionate manner; mercifully. Clarendon. - SOUTHWESTERLY
To ward or from the southwest; as, a southwesterly course; a southwesterly wind. - SOUTHERNLINESS
Southerliness. - SOUTHREN
Southern. "I am a Southren man." Chaucer. - POINT SWITCH
A switch made up of a rail from each track, both rails being tapered far back and connected to throw alongside the through rail of either track. - POINTLESSLY
Without point. - POINT-DEVICE; POINT-DEVISE
Uncommonly nice and exact; precise; particular. You are rather point-devise in your accouterments. Shak. Thus he grew up, in logic point-devise, Perfect in grammar, and in rhetoric nice. Longfellow. (more info) + point point, condition + devis - POINTAL
The pistil of a plant. 2. A kind of pencil or style used with the tablets of the Middle Ages. "A pair of tablets . . . and a pointel." Chaucer. - POINTED
1. Sharp; having a sharp point; as, a pointed rock. 2. Characterized by sharpness, directness, or pithiness of expression; terse; epigrammatic; especially, directed to a particular person or thing. His moral pleases, not his pointed wit. Pope. - SOUTHSAYER
See SOOTHSAYER - SOUTH; SOUTHERLY
the old squaw; -- so called in imitation of its cry. Called also southerly, and southerland. See under Old. - POINT ALPHABET
An alphabet for the blind with a system of raised points corresponding to letters. - POINTSMAN
A man who has charge of railroad points or switches. - SOUTHING
Distance of any heavenly body south of the equator; south declination; south latitude. (more info) 1. Tendency or progress southward; as, the southing of the sun. Emerson. 2. The time at which the moon, or other heavenly body, passes the meridian - SOUTHNESS
A tendency in the end of a magnetic needle to point toward the south pole. Faraday. - COMPASSABLE
Capable of being compassed or accomplished. Burke. - POINTLESS
Having no point; blunt; wanting keenness; obtuse; as, a pointless sword; a pointless remark. Syn. -- Blunt; obtuse, dull; stupid. - SOUTHWEST
The point of the compass equally from the south and the west; the southwest part or region. - SOUTHEASTERN
Of or pertaining to the southeast; southeasterly. - COVER-POINT
The fielder in the games of cricket and lacrosse who supports "point." - PHOTIC REGION
The uppermost zone of the sea, which receives the most light. - INCOMPASSIONATE
Not compassionate; void of pity or of tenderness; remorseless. -- In`com*pas"sion*ate*ly, adv. -- In`com*pas"sion*ate*ness, n. - TROIS POINT
The third point from the outer edge on each player's home table. - REAPPOINT
To appoint again. - 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. - INTERPOINT
To point; to mark with stops or pauses; to punctuate. Her sighs should interpoint her words. Daniel. - PREAPPOINTMENT
Previous appointment. - APPOINTER
One who appoints, or executes a power of appointment. Kent. - ENCOMPASSMENT
The act of surrounding, or the state of being surrounded; circumvention. By this encompassment and drift of question. Shak.