Word Meanings - SCAR - Book Publishers vocabulary database
A mark left upon a stem or branch by the fall of a leaf, leaflet, or frond, or upon a seed by the separation of its support. See Illust. under Axillary. (more info) 1. A mark in the skin or flesh of an animal, made by a wound or ulcer,
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A mark left upon a stem or branch by the fall of a leaf, leaflet, or frond, or upon a seed by the separation of its support. See Illust. under Axillary. (more info) 1. A mark in the skin or flesh of an animal, made by a wound or ulcer, and remaining after the wound or ulcer is healed; a cicatrix; a mark left by a previous injury; a blemish; a disfigurement. This earth had the beauty of youth, . . . and not a wrinkle, scar, or fracture on all its body. T. Burnet.
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- UNDERDOER
One who underdoes; a shirk. - FRONDEUR
A member of the Fronde. - 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. - ULCER
A solution of continuity in any of the soft parts of the body, discharging purulent matter, found on a surface, especially one of the natural surfaces of the body, and originating generally in a constitutional disorder; a sore discharging pus. It - UNDERNICENESS
A want of niceness; indelicacy; impropriety. - UNDERSOIL
The soil beneath the surface; understratum; subsoil. - UNDERDOLVEN
p. p. of Underdelve. - SUPPORTABLE
Capable of being supported, maintained, or endured; endurable. -- Sup*port"a*ble*ness, n. -- Sup*port"a*bly, adv. - 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. - ANIMALIZATION
1. The act of animalizing; the giving of animal life, or endowing with animal properties. 2. Conversion into animal matter by the process of assimilation. Owen. - UNDERCREST
To support as a crest; to bear. Shak. - BRANCHIOSTOMA
The lancelet. See Amphioxus. - SUPPORTATION
Maintenance; support. Chaucer. Bacon. - UNDERGROUND INSURANCE
Wildcat insurance. - UNDERSAY
To say by way of derogation or contradiction. Spenser. - FRONDED
Furnished with fronds. "Fronded palms." Whittier. - UNDERTAPSTER
Assistant to a tapster. - TECTIBRANCHIA
See TECTIBRANCHIATA - ADEN ULCER
A disease endemic in various parts of tropical Asia, due to a specific microƶrganism which produces chronic ulcers on the limbs. It is often fatal. Called also Cochin China ulcer, Persian ulcer, tropical ulcer, etc. - NUDIBRANCHIATA
A division of opisthobranchiate mollusks, having no shell except while very young. The gills are naked and situated upon the back or sides. See Ceratobranchia. - ABRANCHIAL
Abranchiate. - PYGOBRANCHIA
A division of opisthobranchiate mollusks having the branchiƦ in a wreath or group around the anal opening, as in the genus Doris. - PLUNDERER
One who plunders or pillages. - EXTRAAXILLAR; EXTRAAXILLARY
Growing outside of the axils; as, an extra-axillary bud.