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Word Meanings - UNDERSTRAPPER - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A petty fellow; an inferior agent; an underling. This was going to the fountain head at once, not applying to the understrappers. Goldsmith.

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  • GOAL
    Fries. walu staff, stick, rod, Goth. walus, Icel. völr a round stick; 1. The mark set to bound a race, and to or around which the constestants run, or from which they start to return to it again; the place at which a race or a journey is to end.
  • GOROON SHELL
    A large, handsome, marine, univalve shell .
  • GOOD-HUMORED
    Having a cheerful spirit and demeanor; good-tempered. See Good- natured.
  • GOOSEFOOT
    A genus of herbs mostly annual weeds; pigweed.
  • GOLD; GOLDE; GOOLDE
    An old English name of some yellow flower, -- the marigold , according to Dr. Prior, but in Chaucer perhaps the turnsole.
  • GORGONIACEA
    One of the principal divisions of Alcyonaria, including those forms which have a firm and usually branched axis, covered with a porous crust, or c Note: The axis is commonly horny, but it may be solid and stony , as in the red coral of commerce,
  • GOOSERY
    1. A place for keeping geese. 2. The characteristics or actions of a goose; silliness. The finical goosery of your neat sermon actor. Milton.
  • GOLDFINNY
    One of two or more species of European labroid fishes ; -- called also goldsinny, and goldney.
  • GODCHILD
    One for whom a person becomes sponsor at baptism, and whom he promises to see educated as a Christian; a godson or goddaughter. See Godfather.
  • GONOCALYX
    The bell of a sessile gonozooid.
  • GOPHER
    1. One of several North American burrowing rodents of the genera Geomys and Thomomys, of the family Geomyidæ; -- called also pocket gopher and pouched rat. See Pocket gopher, and Tucan. Note: The name was originally given by French settlers to
  • GOAF
    That part of a mine from which the mineral has been partially or wholly removed; the waste left in old workings; -- called also gob . To work the goaf or gob, to remove the pillars of mineral matter previously left to support the roof, and replace
  • GORGEOUS
    Imposing through splendid or various colors; showy; fine; magnificent. Cloud-land, gorgeous land. Coleridge. Gogeous as the sun at midsummer. Shak. -- Gor"geous*ly, adv. -- Gor"geous*ness, n. (more info) luxurious; cf. OF. gorgias ruff,
  • FELLOW-COMMONER
    A student at Cambridge University, England, who commons, or dines, at the Fellow's table.
  • GONIMOUS
    Pertaining to, or containing, gonidia or gonimia, as that part of a lichen which contains the green or chlorophyll-bearing cells.
  • GONOPHORE
    A sexual zooid produced as a medusoid bud upon a hydroid, sometimes becoming a free hydromedusa, sometimes remaining attached. See Hydroidea, and Illusts. of Athecata, Campanularian, and Gonosome.
  • GONGORISM
    An affected elegance or euphuism of style, for which the Spanish poet Gongora y Argote , among others of his time, was noted. Gongorism, that curious disease of euphuism, that broke out simultaneously in Italy, England, and Spain. The Critic. The
  • GOLDYLOCKS
    A plant of several species of the genus Chrysocoma; -- so called from the tufts of yellow flowers which terminate the stems; also, the Ranunculus auricomus, a kind of buttercup.
  • GOD
    Good. Chaucer.
  • INFERIORLY
    In an inferior manner, or on the inferior part.
  • RUBIGO
    same as Rust, n., 2.
  • MYSTAGOGY
    The doctrines, principles, or practice of a mystagogue; interpretation of mysteries.
  • ISAGOGE
    An introduction. Harris.
  • STEATOPYGOUS
    Having fat buttocks. Specimens of the steatopygous Abyssinian breed. Burton.
  • SYRINGOCOELE
    The central canal of the spinal cord. B. G. Wilder.
  • AGOUARA
    The crab-eating raccoon , found in the tropical parts of America.
  • FULGOR
    Dazzling brightness; splendor. Sir T. Browne.
  • BERGOMASK
    A rustic dance, so called in ridicule of the people of Bergamo, in Italy, once noted for their clownishness.
  • OSTROGOTHIC
    Of or pertaining to the Ostrogoths.
  • PYGOBRANCHIA
    A division of opisthobranchiate mollusks having the branchiæ in a wreath or group around the anal opening, as in the genus Doris.
  • YELLOW-GOLDS
    A certain plant, probably the yellow oxeye. B. Jonson.
  • PHYSIOGONY
    The birth of nature. Coleridge.
  • EPIPTERYGOID
    Situated upon or above the pterygoid bone. -- n.

 

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