Codpiece: alternatives and connections

Formerly the part sung by the highest male, or counter-tenor, voices; now the part sung by the lowest female, or contralto, voices, be…

A combining form meaning anterior, front; as, antero-posterior, front and back; antero-lateral, front side, anterior and at the side.

Order; a regular and imposing arrangement; disposition in regular lines; hence, order of battle; as, drawn up in battle array.

A fillet, strap, or any narrow ligament with which a thing is encircled, or fastened, or by which a number of things are tied, bound t…

Pertaining to Biscay, its people, or their language.

In front of; preceding in space; ahead of; as, to stand before the fire; before the house.

A piece of heavy ordnance formerly used for throwing stones and other ponderous missiles. It was the earliest kind of cannon.

A headdress for men and boys; a cap.

The breast of a human being; the part, between the arms, to which anything is pressed when embraced by them.

The lower part of the body behind; the buttocks.

Breeches.

The skin of a buck.

The male of any species of cattle (Bovidae); hence, the male of any large quadruped, as the elephant; also, the male of the whale.

A sort of cotton velveteen, having the surface raised in ridges.

To march back, or to march in reversed order.

Extending far below the surface; of great perpendicular dimension (measured from the surface downward, and distinguished from high, wh…

To direct; to put right or straight; to regulate; to order.

The make or form of anything; the style, shape, appearance, or mode of structure; pattern, model; as, the fashion of the ark, of a coa…