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Word Meanings - UNDERPOISE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To weigh, estimate, or rate below desert; to undervalue. Marston.

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  • 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.

 

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