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Word Meanings - UNDERLYING - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Lying under or beneath; hence, fundamental; as, the underlying strata of a locality; underlying principles.

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  • UNDERDOER
    One who underdoes; a shirk.
  • 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.
  • STRATARITHMETRY
    The art of drawing up an army, or any given number of men, in any geometrical figure, or of estimating or expressing the number of men in such a figure.
  • UNDERNICENESS
    A want of niceness; indelicacy; impropriety.
  • UNDERSOIL
    The soil beneath the surface; understratum; subsoil.
  • UNDERDOLVEN
    p. p. of Underdelve.
  • LYRE BIRD
    Any one of two or three species of Australian birds of the genus Menura. The male is remarkable for having the sixteen tail feathers very long and, when spread, arranged in the form of a lyre. The common lyre bird , inhabiting New South Wales,
  • LYSIMETER
    An instrument for measuring the water that percolates through a certain depth of soil. Knight.
  • 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.
  • UNDERCREST
    To support as a crest; to bear. Shak.
  • UNDERSAY
    To say by way of derogation or contradiction. Spenser.
  • UNDERGROUND INSURANCE
    Wildcat insurance.
  • UNDERTAPSTER
    Assistant to a tapster.
  • LYCOPODE
    See LYCOPODIUM
  • LYTHONTHRIPTIC; LYTHONTRIPTIC
    See LITHONTRIPTIC
  • LYONNAISE
    Applied to boiled potatoes cut into small pieces and heated in oil or butter. They are usually flavored with onion and parsley.
  • LYMPH
    An alkaline colorless fluid, contained in the lymphatic vessels, coagulable like blood, but free from red blood corpuscles. It is absorbed from the various tissues and organs of the body, and is finally discharged by the thoracic and right lymphatic
  • SAVELY
    Safely. Chaucer.
  • FAMILIARLY
    In a familiar manner.
  • STILLY
    Still; quiet; calm. The stilly hour when storms are gone. Moore.
  • LIVINGLY
    In a living state. Sir T. Browne.
  • LAUGHINGLY
    With laughter or merriment.
  • POLYPHYLLOUS
    Many-leaved; as, a polyphyllous calyx or perianth.
  • POLYCHROITE
    The coloring matter of saffron; -- formerly so called because of the change of color on treatment with certain acids; -- called also crocin, and safranin.
  • SCOLYTID
    Any one of numerous species of small bark-boring beetles of the genus Scolytus and allied genera. Also used adjectively.
  • DISPROPORTIONALLY
    In a disproportional manner; unsuitably in form, quantity, or value; unequally.
  • SUNDRILY
    In sundry ways; variously.
  • WHIP-TOM-KELLY
    A vireo native of the West Indies and Florida; -- called also black-whiskered vireo.
  • OVERFLOWINGLY
    In great abundance; exuberantly. Boyle.
  • THIRSTILY
    In a thirsty manner.
  • STAUNCH; STAUNCHLY; STAUNCHNESS
    See ETC
  • PRECIPITATELY
    In a precipitate manner; headlong; hastily; rashly. Swift.
  • THERMALLY
    In a thermal manner.
  • ASSISTANTLY
    In a manner to give aid.
  • DISREGARDFULLY
    Negligently; heedlessly.

 

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