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Word Meanings - TIEBEAM - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A beam acting as a tie, as at the bottom of a pair of principal rafters, to prevent them from thrusting out the wall. See Illust. of Timbers, under Roof. Gwilt.

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  • ACTURE
    Action. Shak.
  • ACTURIENCE
    Tendency or impulse to act. Acturience, or desire of action, in one form or another, whether as restlessness, ennui, dissatisfaction, or the imagination of something desirable. J. Grote.
  • UNDERDOER
    One who underdoes; a shirk.
  • PRINCIPALNESS
    The quality of being principal.
  • UNDERBRED
    Not thoroughly bred; ill-bred; as, an underbred fellow. Goldsmith.
  • ACTINOLITE
    A bright green variety of amphibole occurring usually in fibrous or columnar masses.
  • UNDERSECRETARY
    A secretary who is subordinate to the chief secretary; an assistant secretary; as, an undersecretary of the Treasury.
  • ACTINOSTOME
    The mouth or anterior opening of a coelenterate animal.
  • 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.
  • ACTINARIA
    A large division of Anthozoa, including those which have simple tentacles and do not form stony corals. Sometimes, in a wider sense, applied to all the Anthozoa, expert the Alcyonaria, whether forming corals or not.
  • 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.
  • PREVENTATIVE
    That which prevents; -- incorrectly used instead of preventive.
  • UNDERCREST
    To support as a crest; to bear. Shak.
  • PRINCIPALITY
    preëminence, excellence: cf. F. principalité, principauté. See 1. Sovereignty; supreme power; hence, superiority; predominance; high, or the highest, station. Sir P. Sidney. Your principalities shall come down, even the crown of your glory.
  • UNDERGROUND INSURANCE
    Wildcat insurance.
  • UNDERSAY
    To say by way of derogation or contradiction. Spenser.
  • SELF-ACTIVE
    Acting of one's self or of itself; acting without depending on other agents.
  • HEMIDACTYL
    Any species of Old World geckoes of the genus Hemidactylus. The hemidactyls have dilated toes, with two rows of plates beneath.
  • CHYLIFACTIVE
    Producing, or converting into, chyle; having the power to form chyle.
  • PHYLACTERED
    Wearing a phylactery.
  • INACTUATE
    To put in action.
  • CHARACTERISTIC
    Pertaining to, or serving to constitute, the character; showing the character, or distinctive qualities or traits, of a person or thing; peculiar; distinctive. Characteristic clearness of temper. Macaulay.
  • INTRACTABILITY
    The quality of being intractable; intractableness. Bp. Hurd.
  • IMPREVENTABLE
    Not preventable; invitable.
  • SULPHUR-BOTTOM
    A very large whalebone whale of the genus Sibbaldius, having a yellowish belly; especially, S. sulfureus of the North Pacific, and S. borealis of the North Atlantic; -- called also sulphur whale.
  • COUNTERACTIVE
    Tending to counteract.

 

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