DIRECTION
ADJECTIVES
► MULTIVIOUS having many ways or roads; going or leading in many directions; manifold → 1656
► QUAQUAVERSAL turned or pointing in every direction → 1728
► VARIOUS turning different ways; going in different directions → 1621 obs.
ADVERBS
► ALLWAYS in all directions → 1838
► HELL-BENT AND CROOKED into confusion, in all directions → 1914 Amer. dial.
► HELL-BENT FOR ELECTION in all directions, helter-skelter → 1968 Amer. dial.
► HELL-BENT FOR SUNDAY in all directions, helter-skelter → 1960 Amer. dial.
► HELL-FOR-ELECTION in all directions, helter-skelter → 1968 Amer. dial.
► HELL-WEST AND CROOKED into confusion, in all directions → 1907 Amer. dial.
► HELL-WESTERN CROOKED into confusion, in all directions → 1898 Amer. dial.
► HELL-WESTERN CROOKEDY into confusion, in all directions → 1962 Amer. dial.
► REETWAYS in the right direction → 1904 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► REETWISE in the right direction → 1904 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► SAME-WAYS in the same direction → 1887
► YONDER WAY ► YONDERWAYS ► YONNAWAY ► YONNERWAYS ► YONWAY ► YONWAYS over there, in that direction → 1851 Amer. dial.
NOUNS
► ADDRESSION the direction of one’s course → 1596 obs.
► ART a direction, way; locality, district → 1805 Sc. & Eng. dial.
► ARTAN direction; placing towards a certain quarter of the heavens → 1898 Sc. (Bk.)
► GAN course, direction, way → 1900 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► LEAD leading, direction, guidance → a1300 obs.
► LEARNING information or direction → c1386 obs.
► MAGISTRATION command, direction → 1490 obs.
► MANAGE the action or manner of managing; management; conduct of affairs; administration, direction, control → 1581 obs.
► MANUDUCTION the act of leading, guiding, or introducing; guidance, introduction, direction → 1502
► MONITION instruction; direction, prompting → 1400
► ORDINANCE the act of ordering or regulating; regulation, direction, management; authoritative appointment or dispensation; control → c1330 arch.
► SITUATION direction, course → 1509 obs.
► SUING a course, direction → c1410 obs.
PREPOSITIONS
► TILWARD in the direction of, toward → a1300 obs.
PHRASES
► THAT-A-ROAD that way, that direction → 1905 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
VERBS
► DO A B1 ► DO A BEE WAN to go somewhere else; to change direction → 1988 Sc.
► JAG to make a change in direction → 1970 Amer. dial.
► TURN ONE’S TOE to set off in another direction → 1902 Sc.
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