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Word Meanings - PALATINE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Of or pertaining to a palace, or to a high officer of a palace; hence, possessing royal privileges. Count palatine, County palatine. See under Count, and County. -- Palatine hill, or The palatine, one of the seven hills of Rome, once occupied by

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Of or pertaining to a palace, or to a high officer of a palace; hence, possessing royal privileges. Count palatine, County palatine. See under Count, and County. -- Palatine hill, or The palatine, one of the seven hills of Rome, once occupied by the palace of the Cæsars. See Palace.

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  • UNDERDOER
    One who underdoes; a shirk.
  • COUNTERBRACE
    To brace in opposite directions; as, to counterbrace the yards, i. e., to brace the head yards one way and the after yards another.
  • UNDERBRED
    Not thoroughly bred; ill-bred; as, an underbred fellow. Goldsmith.
  • UNDERSECRETARY
    A secretary who is subordinate to the chief secretary; an assistant secretary; as, an undersecretary of the Treasury.
  • UNDERPLOT
    1. A series of events in a play, proceeding collaterally with the main story, and subservient to it. Dryden. 2. A clandestine scheme; a trick. Addison.
  • UNDERNICENESS
    A want of niceness; indelicacy; impropriety.
  • UNDERSOIL
    The soil beneath the surface; understratum; subsoil.
  • UNDERDOLVEN
    p. p. of Underdelve.
  • COUNTERVIEW
    1. An opposite or opposing view; opposition; a posture in which two persons front each other. Within the gates of hell sat Death and Sin, In counterview. Milton M. Peisse has ably advocated the counterview in his preface and appendixx.
  • COUNTERFLEURY
    Counterflory.
  • POSSESSIVE
    Of or pertaining to possession; having or indicating possession. Possessive case , the genitive case; the case of nouns and pronouns which expresses ownership, origin, or some possessive relation of one thing to another; as, Homer's admirers; the
  • COUNTABLE
    Capable of being numbered.
  • COUNTER WEIGHT
    A counterpoise.
  • COUNTRY-DANCE
    See MACUALAY
  • UNDERNIME
    1. To receive; to perceive. He the savor undernom Which that the roses and the lilies cast. Chaucer. 2. To reprove; to reprehend. Piers Plowman.
  • UNDERPROP
    To prop from beneath; to put a prop under; to support; to uphold. Underprop the head that bears the crown. Fenton.
  • HILLSIDE
    The side or declivity of a hill.
  • UNDERCREST
    To support as a crest; to bear. Shak.
  • COUNTERJUMPER
    A salesman in a shop; a shopman; -- used contemtuously.
  • COUNTERACTIVE
    Tending to counteract.
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    One who plunders or pillages.
  • SUPERROYAL
    Larger than royal; -- said of a particular size of printing and writing paper. See the Note under Paper, n.

 

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