Word Meanings - PENNYWORT - Book Publishers vocabulary database
A European trailing herb with roundish, reniform leaves. It is often cultivated in hanging baskets. March, or Water, pennywort. See under March.
Related words: (words related to PENNYWORT)
- UNDERDOER
One who underdoes; a shirk. - UNDERBRED
Not thoroughly bred; ill-bred; as, an underbred fellow. Goldsmith. - WATER-BEARER
The constellation Aquarius. - UNDERSECRETARY
A secretary who is subordinate to the chief secretary; an assistant secretary; as, an undersecretary of the Treasury. - HANGNAIL
A small piece or silver of skin which hangs loose, near the root of finger nail. Holloway. - 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. - WATERWORT
Any plant of the natural order Elatineæ, consisting of two genera , mostly small annual herbs growing in the edges of ponds. Some have a peppery or acrid taste. - UNDERDOLVEN
p. p. of Underdelve. - UNDERSOIL
The soil beneath the surface; understratum; subsoil. - WATER SHREW
Any one of several species of shrews having fringed feet and capable of swimming actively. The two common European species are the best known. The most common American water shrew, or marsh shrew , is rarely seen, owing to its nocturnal habits. - 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. - WATER-TIGHT
So tight as to retain, or not to admit, water; not leaky. - WATER RAT
The water vole. See under Vole. The muskrat. The beaver rat. See under Beaver. 2. A thief on the water; a pirate. - MARCHER
One who marches. - UNDERCREST
To support as a crest; to bear. Shak. - UNDERSAY
To say by way of derogation or contradiction. Spenser. - UNDERGROUND INSURANCE
Wildcat insurance. - WATER CRAKE
The dipper. The spotted crake . See Illust. of Crake. The swamp hen, or crake, of Australia. - ON-HANGER
A hanger-on. - NOMARCH
The chief magistrate of a nome or nomarchy. - PLUNDERER
One who plunders or pillages.