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To look toward; to front upon or toward. [Obs.] Palladius adviseth the front of his house should so respect the Sir T. Browne.

Looking towardl having reference to; relative, not absolute; as, the respective connections of society.

urs in childbirth after the head has been delivered, and which causes the latter to point towards the side to which it was directed at the beginning of labor.

Taking back; resuming, or tending toward resumption; as, resumptive measures.

s; as, a retired officer; a retired physician. Retired flank (Fort.), a flank bent inward toward the rear of the work. -- Retired list (Mil. & Naval), a list of officers, who, by reason of advanced age or other disability, are relieved from active service, but still receive a specified amount of pay from the governmen…

The state or condition of a part when drawn back, or towards the center of the body.

ce; to withdraw; as, the defeated army retreated from the field. The rapid currents drive Towards the retreating sea their furious tide. Milton.

eating), a pipe by which water of condensation from a heater or radiator is conveyed back toward the boiler.

A return towards some ancestral type or character; atavism. Reversion of series (Alg.), the act of reverting a series. See To revert a series, under Revert, v. t.

To return, wholly or in part, towards some preëxistent form; to take on the traits or characters of an ancestral type.

A revolutionist. [R.] Dumfries was a Tory town, and could not tolerate a revolutionary. Prof. Wilson.

A huge bow fixed on the wall of a fortified town for casting javelins.

ver ridded myself of an overmastering and brooding sense of some great calamity traveling toward me. De Quincey.

To laugh at mockingly or disparagingly; to awaken ridicule toward or respecting. I 've known the young, who ridiculed his rage. Goldsmith.

ly opposite; as, to turn to the right-about. To send to the right-about, to cause to turn toward the opposite point or quarter; -- hence, of troops, to cause to turn and retreat. [Colloq.] Sir W. Scott.

Toward the right. Rightward and leftward rise the rocks. Southey.

To be filled with report or talk; as, the whole town rings with his fame.

One who brings fish from the seacoast to markets in inland towns. [Obs.] But what's the action we are for now Robbing a ripper of his fish. Beau & Fl.

To tower up; to be heaved up; as, the Alps rise far above the sea.

sons, and animals; a track for travel, forming a means of communication between one city, town, or place, and another. The most villainous house in all the London road. Shak.