Word Meanings - UNDERPOISE - Book Publishers vocabulary database
To weigh, estimate, or rate below desert; to undervalue. Marston.
Related words: (words related to UNDERPOISE)
- DESERTER
One who forsakes a duty, a cause or a party, a friend, or any one to whom he owes service; especially, a soldier or a seaman who abandons the service without leave; one guilty of desertion. - WEIGHTINESS
The quality or state of being weighty; weight; force; importance; impressiveness. - WEIGHTILY
In a weighty manner. - WEIGHMASTER
One whose business it is to weigh ore, hay, merchandise, etc.; one licensed as a public weigher. - UNDERVALUE
1. To value, rate, or estimate below the real worth; to depreciate. 2. To esteem lightly; to treat as of little worth; to hold in mean estimation; to despise. In comparison of it I undervalued all ensigns of authority. Atterbury. I write not this - DESERTLESS
Without desert. - WEIGHER
One who weighs; specifically, an officer whose duty it is to weigh commodities. - DESERT
That which is deserved; the reward or the punishment justly due; claim to recompense, usually in a good sense; right to reward; merit. According to their deserts will I judge them. Ezek. vii. 27. Andronicus, surnamed Pius For many good and great - ESTIMATE
1. To judge and form an opinion of the value of, from imperfect data, -- either the extrinsic , or intrinsic , value; to fix the worth of roughly or in a general way; as, to estimate the value of goods or land; to estimate the worth or talents - WEIGH-HOUSE
A building at or within which goods, and the like, are weighed. - DESERTLESSLY
Undeservedly. Beau. & Fl. - WEIGHT
The resistance against which a machine acts, as opposed to the power which moves it. Atomic weight. See under Atomic, and cf. Element. -- Dead weight, Feather weight, Heavy weight, Light weight, etc. See under Dead, Feather, etc. -- Weight of - WEIGHTY
1. Having weight; heavy; ponderous; as, a weighty body. 2. Adapted to turn the balance in the mind, or to convince; important; forcible; serious; momentous. "For sundry weighty reasons." Shak. Let me have your advice in a weighty affair. Swift. - WEIGHBOARD
Clay intersecting a vein. Weale. - BELOW
1. Under, or lower in place; beneath not so high; as, below the moon; below the knee. Shak. 2. Inferior to in rank, excellence, dignity, value, amount, price, etc.; lower in quality. "One degree below kings." Addison. 3. Unworthy of; unbefitting; - BELOWT
To treat as a lout; to talk abusively to. Camden. - WEIGHABLE
Capable of being weighed. - UNDERVALUER
One who undervalues. - WEIGHBRIDGE
A weighing machine on which loaded carts may be weighed; platform scales. - DESERTRIX; DESERTRICE
A feminine deserter. Milton. - INDESERT
Ill desert. Addison. - COUNTER WEIGHT
A counterpoise. - MISDESERT
Ill desert. Spenser. - WELTERWEIGHT
1. A weight of 28 pounds (one of 40 pounds is called a heavy welterweight) sometimes imposed in addition to weight for age, chiefly in steeplechases and hurdle races. 2. A boxer or wrestler whose weight is intermediate between that - AWEIGH
Just drawn out of the ground, and hanging perpendicularly; atrip; -- said of the anchor. Totten. - UNWEIGHING
Not weighing or pondering; inconsiderate. Shak. - OVERESTIMATE
To estimate too highly; to overvalue. - FURBELOW
A plaited or gathered flounce on a woman's garment.