| Words | Parts of Speech | Meaning/Definition/Similar Words |
|---|---|---|
| udal | noun | In Shetland and Orkney, a freehold; property held by udal, or allodial, right., Allodial; — a term used in Finland, Shetland, and Orkney. See Allodial. |
| ugly | superl. | Offensive to the sight; contrary to beauty; being of disagreeable or loathsome aspect; unsightly; repulsive; deformed., Ill-natured; crossgrained; quarrelsome; as, an ugly temper; to feel ugly., Unpleasant; disagreeable; likely to cause trouble or loss; as, an ugly rumor; an ugly customer., A shade for the face, projecting from the bonnet., To make ugly. |
| ulan | noun | See Uhlan. |
| ulna | noun | The postaxial bone of the forearm, or branchium, corresponding to the fibula of the hind limb. See Radius., An ell; also, a yard. |
| ulva | noun | A genus of thin papery bright green seaweeds including the kinds called sea lettuce. |
| umbe | preposition | About. |
| umbo | noun | The boss of a shield, at or near the middle, and usually projecting, sometimes in a sharp spike., A boss, or rounded elevation, or a corresponding depression, in a palate, disk, or membrane; as, the umbo in the integument of the larvae of echinoderms or in the tympanic membrane of the ear., One of the lateral prominence just above the hinge of a bivalve shell. |
| unau | noun | The two-toed sloth (Cholopus didactylus), native of South America. It is about two feet long. Its color is a uniform grayish brown, sometimes with a reddish tint. |
| unbe | verb t. | To cause not to be; to cause to be another. |
| unce | noun | A claw., An ounce; a small portion. |
| unco | adjective | Unknown; strange, or foreign; unusual, or surprising; distant in manner; reserved., In a high degree; to a great extent; greatly; very., A strange thing or person. |
| unci | plural | of Uncus |
| unde | adjective | Waving or wavy; — applied to ordinaries, or division lines. |
| undo | verb t. | To reverse, as what has been done; to annul; to bring to naught., To loose; to open; to take to piece; to unfasten; to untie; hence, to unravel; to solve; as, to undo a knot; to undo a puzzling question; to undo a riddle., To bring to poverty; to impoverish; to ruin, as in reputation, morals, hopes, or the like; as, many are undone by unavoidable losses, but more undo themselves by vices and dissipation, or by indolence. |
| uni- | A prefix signifying one, once; as in uniaxial, unicellular. | |
| unio | noun | Any one of numerous species of fresh-water mussels belonging to Unio and many allied genera. |
| unit | noun | A single thing or person., The least whole number; one., A gold coin of the reign of James I., of the value of twenty shillings., Any determinate amount or quantity (as of length, time, heat, value) adopted as a standard of measurement for other amounts or quantities of the same kind., A single thing, as a magnitude or number, regarded as an undivided whole. |
| unke | noun | A European aquatic toad (Bombinator igneus). Its back is dark; its belly is marked with crimson. Called also feuerkrote. |
| unto | preposition | |
| unty | verb t. | To untie. |
| upas | noun | A tree (Antiaris toxicaria) of the Breadfruit family, common in the forests of Java and the neighboring islands. Its secretions are poisonous, and it has been fabulously reported that the atmosphere about it is deleterious. Called also bohun upas., A virulent poison used in Java and the adjacent islands for poisoning arrows. One kind, upas antiar, is, derived from upas tree (Antiaris toxicaria). Upas tieute is prepared from a climbing plant (Strychnos Tieute). |
| upon | preposition | |
| ural | adjective | Pertaining to, or designating, the Urals, a mountain range between Europe and Asia. |
| urao | noun | See Trona. |
| urdu | noun | The language more generally called Hindustanee. |
| urea | adjective | A very soluble crystalline body which is the chief constituent of the urine in mammals and some other animals. It is also present in small quantity in blood, serous fluids, lymph, the liver, etc. |
| urge | verb t. | To press; to push; to drive; to impel; to force onward., To press the mind or will of; to ply with motives, arguments, persuasion, or importunity., To provoke; to exasperate., To press hard upon; to follow closely, To present in an urgent manner; to press upon attention; to insist upon; as, to urge an argument; to urge the necessity of a case., To treat with forcible means; to take severe or violent measures with; as, to urge an ore with intense heat., To press onward or forward., To be pressing in argument; to insist; to persist. |
| uric | adjective | Of or pertaining to urine; obtained from urine; as, uric acid. |
| urim | noun | A part or decoration of the breastplate of the high priest among the ancient Jews, by which Jehovah revealed his will on certain occasions. Its nature has been the subject of conflicting conjectures. |
| uro- | A combining form fr. Gr. o’y^ron, urine., A combining form from Gr. o’yra`, the tail, the caudal extremity. | |
| urox | noun | The aurochs. |
| urry | noun | A sort of blue or black clay lying near a vein of coal. |
| ursa | noun | Either one of the Bears. See the Phrases below. |
| urus | noun | A very large, powerful, and savage extinct bovine animal (Bos urus / primigenius) anciently abundant in Europe. It appears to have still existed in the time of Julius Caesar. It had very large horns, and was hardly capable of domestication. Called also, ur, ure, and tur. |
| urva | noun | The crab-eating ichneumon (Herpestes urva), native of India. The fur is black, annulated with white at the tip of each hair, and a white streak extends from the mouth to the shoulder. |
| used | imp. & past participle | of Use |
| user | noun | One who uses., Enjoyment of property; use. |
| utas | noun | The eighth day after any term or feast; the octave; as, the utas of St. Michael., Hence, festivity; merriment. |
| utes | noun pl. | An extensive tribe of North American Indians of the Shoshone stock, inhabiting Colorado, Utah, New Mexico, Arizona, and adjacent regions. They are subdivided into several subordinate tribes, some of which are among the most degraded of North American Indians. |
| utia | noun | Any species of large West Indian rodents of the genus Capromys, or Utia. In general appearance and habits they resemble rats, but they are as large as rabbits. |
| utis | noun | See Utas. |
| utro | – (/). A combining form used in anatomy to indicate connection with, or relation to, the uterus; as in utro-ovarian. | |
| uvea | noun | The posterior pigmented layer of the iris; — sometimes applied to the whole iris together with the choroid coat. |
| uvic | adjective | Pertaining to, or obtained from, grapes; specifically, designating an organic acid, C7H8O3 (also called pyrotritartaric acid), obtained as a white crystalline substance by the decomposition of tartaric and pyrotartaric acids. |