Definition of towards

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Towards (adv.) Near; at hand; in state of preparation.

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Towards :: Towards (prep.) With direction to, in a moral sense; with respect or reference to; regarding; concerning..
Edgewise :: Edgewise (adv.) With the edge towards anything; in the direction of the edge.
Aft :: Aft (adv. & a.) Near or towards the stern of a vessel; astern; abaft.
Levorotatory :: Levorotatory (a.) Turning or rotating the plane of polarization towards the left; levogyrate, as levulose, left-handed quartz crystals, etc..
Pull :: Pull (v. t.) To move or operate by the motion of drawing towards one; as, to pull a bell; to pull an oar..
Gardant :: Gardant (a.) Turning the head towards the spectator, but not the body; -- said of a lion or other beast..
Revert :: Revert (v. i.) To return, wholly or in part, towards some preexistent form; to take on the traits or characters of an ancestral type..
Restitution :: Restitution (v.) The movement of rotetion which usually occurs 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..
Inshore :: Inshore (adv.) Towards the shore; as, the boat was headed inshore..
Towards :: Towards (prep.) Tending to; in the direction of; in behalf of.
Adversion :: Adversion (n.) A turning towards; attention.
Gin :: Gin (n.) Against; near by; towards; as, gin night..
Appulse :: Appulse (n.) A driving or running towards; approach; impulse; also, the act of striking against..
Retraction :: Retraction (n.) The state or condition of a part when drawn back, or towards the center of the body..
Vortex :: Vortex (n.) A mass of fluid, especially of a liquid, having a whirling or circular motion tending to form a cavity or vacuum in the center of the circle, and to draw in towards the center bodies subject to its action; the form assumed by a fluid in such motion; a whirlpool; an eddy..
Dexter :: Dexter (a.) On the right-hand side of a shield, i. e., towards the right hand of its wearer. To a spectator in front, as in a pictorial representation, this would be the left side..
Dextrally :: Dextrally (adv.) Towards the right; as, the hands of a watch rotate dextrally..
Bistoury :: Bistoury (n.) A surgical instrument consisting of a slender knife, either straight or curved, generally used by introducing it beneath the part to be divided, and cutting towards the surface..
Altarwise :: Altarwise (adv.) In the proper position of an altar, that is, at the east of a church with its ends towards the north and south..
Affluxion :: Affluxion (n.) The act of flowing towards; afflux.
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