| Words | Parts of Speech | Meaning/Definition/Similar Words |
|---|---|---|
| udder | noun | The glandular organ in which milk is secreted and stored; — popularly called the bag in cows and other quadrupeds. See Mamma., One of the breasts of a woman. |
| uhlan | noun | One of a certain description of militia among the Tartars., One of a kind of light cavalry of Tartaric origin, first introduced into European armies in Poland. They are armed with lances, pistols, and sabers, and are employed chiefly as skirmishers. |
| ukase | noun | In Russia, a published proclamation or imperial order, having the force of law. |
| ulcer | noun | A solution of continuity in any of the soft parts of the body, discharging purulent matter, found on a surface, especially one of the natural surfaces of the body, and originating generally in a constitutional disorder; a sore discharging pus. It is distinguished from an abscess, which has its beginning, at least, in the depth of the tissues., Fig.: Anything that festers and corrupts like an open sore; a vice in character., To ulcerate. |
| ulema | noun | A college or corporation in Turkey composed of the hierarchy, namely, the imams, or ministers of religion, the muftis, or doctors of law, and the cadis, or administrators of justice. |
| ullet | noun | A European owl (Syrnium aluco) of a tawny color; — called also uluia. |
| ulmic | adjective | Pertaining to ulmin; designating an acid obtained from ulmin. |
| ulmin | noun | A brown amorphous substance found in decaying vegetation. Cf. Humin. |
| ulmus | noun | A genus of trees including the elm. |
| ulnar | adjective | Of or pertaining to the ulna, or the elbow; as, the ulnar nerve. |
| ultra | adjective | Going beyond others, or beyond due limit; extreme; fanatical; uncompromising; as, an ultra reformer; ultra measures., One who advocates extreme measures; an ultraist; an extremist; a radical. |
| ulula | noun | A genus of owls including the great gray owl (Ulula cinerea) of Arctic America, and other similar species. See Illust. of Owl. |
| umbel | noun | A kind of flower cluster in which the flower stalks radiate from a common point, as in the carrot and milkweed. It is simple or compound; in the latter case, each peduncle bears another little umbel, called umbellet, or umbellule. |
| umber | noun | A brown or reddish pigment used in both oil and water colors, obtained from certain natural clays variously colored by the oxides of iron and manganese. It is commonly heated or burned before being used, and is then called burnt umber; when not heated, it is called raw umber. See Burnt umber, below., An umbrere., See Grayling, 1., An African wading bird (Scopus umbretta) allied to the storks and herons. It is dull dusky brown, and has a large occipital crest. Called also umbrette, umbre, and umber bird., Of or pertaining to umber; resembling umber; olive-brown; dark brown; dark; dusky., To color with umber; to shade or darken; as, to umber over one’s face. |
| umbos | plural | of Umbo |
| umbra | noun | The conical shadow projected from a planet or satellite, on the side opposite to the sun, within which a spectator could see no portion of the sun’s disk; — used in contradistinction from penumbra. See Penumbra., The central dark portion, or nucleus, of a sun spot., The fainter part of a sun spot; — now more commonly called penumbra., Any one of several species of sciaenoid food fishes of the genus Umbrina, especially the Mediterranean species (U. cirrhosa), which is highly esteemed as a market fish; — called also ombre, and umbrine. |
| umbre | noun | See Umber. |
| unapt | adjective | Inapt; slow; dull., Unsuitable; unfit; inappropriate., Not accustomed and not likely; not disposed. |
| unarm | verb t. | To disarm., To puff off, or lay down, one’s arms or armor. |
| unbag | verb t. | To pour, or take, or let go, out of a bag or bags. |
| unbar | verb t. | To remove a bar or bars from; to unbolt; to open; as, to unbar a gate. |
| unbay | verb t. | To free from the restraint of anything that surrounds or incloses; to let loose; to open. |
| unbed | verb t. | To raise or rouse from bed. |
| unbid | adjective | Alt. of Unbidden |
| unbit | verb t. | To remove the turns of (a rope or cable) from the bits; as, to unbit a cable. |
| unbow | verb t. | To unbend. |
| unbox | verb t. | To remove from a box or boxes. |
| unboy | verb t. | To divest of the traits of a boy. |
| uncap | verb t. | To remove a cap or cover from. |
| uncia | noun | A twelfth part, as of the Roman as; an ounce., A numerical coefficient in any particular case of the binomial theorem. |
| uncle | noun | The brother of one’s father or mother; also applied to an aunt’s husband; — the correlative of aunt in sex, and of nephew and niece in relationship., A pawnbroker. |
| uncus | noun | A hook or claw. |
| uncut | adjective | Not cut; not separated or divided by cutting or otherwise; — said especially of books, periodicals, and the like, when the leaves have not been separated by trimming in binding., Not ground, or otherwise cut, into a certain shape; as, an uncut diamond. |
| undam | verb t. | To free from a dam, mound, or other obstruction. |
| under | preposition | Below or lower, in place or position, with the idea of being covered; lower than; beneath; — opposed to over; as, he stood under a tree; the carriage is under cover; a cellar extends under the whole house., Denoting relation to some thing or person that is superior, weighs upon, oppresses, bows down, governs, directs, influences powerfully, or the like, in a relation of subjection, subordination, obligation, liability, or the like; as, to travel under a heavy load; to live under extreme oppression; to have fortitude under the evils of life; to have patience under pain, or under misfortunes; to behave like a Christian under reproaches and injuries; under the pains and penalties of the law; the condition under which one enters upon an office; under the necessity of obeying the laws; under vows of chastity., Denoting relation to something that exceeds in rank or degree, in number, size, weight, age, or the like; in a relation of the less to the greater, of inferiority, or of falling short., Denoting relation to something that comprehends or includes, that represents or designates, that furnishes a cover, pretext, pretense, or the like; as, he betrayed him under the guise of friendship; Morpheus is represented under the figure of a boy asleep., Less specifically, denoting the relation of being subject, of undergoing regard, treatment, or the like; as, a bill under discussion., In a lower, subject, or subordinate condition; in subjection; — used chiefly in a few idiomatic phrases; as, to bring under, to reduce to subjection; to subdue; to keep under, to keep in subjection; to control; to go under, to be unsuccessful; to fail., Lower in position, intensity, rank, or degree; subject; subordinate; — generally in composition with a noun, and written with or without the hyphen; as, an undercurrent; undertone; underdose; under-garment; underofficer; undersheriff. |
| undid | imp. of Undo. | |
| undue | adjective | Not due; not yet owing; as, an undue debt, note, or bond., Not right; not lawful or legal; improper; as, an undue proceeding., Not agreeable to a rule or standard, or to duty; disproportioned; excessive; immoderate; inordinate; as, an undue attachment to forms; an undue rigor in the execution of law. |
| ubeth | adverb | Alt. of Unethes |
| unfit | verb t. | To make unsuitable or incompetent; to deprive of the strength, skill, or proper qualities for anything; to disable; to incapacitate; to disqualify; as, sickness unfits a man for labor; sin unfits us for the society of holy beings., Not fit; unsuitable. |
| unfix | verb t. | To loosen from a fastening; to detach from anything that holds; to unsettle; as, to unfix a bayonet; to unfix the mind or affections., To make fluid; to dissolve. |
| unget | verb t. | To cause to be unbegotten or unborn, or as if unbegotten or unborn. |
| ungka | noun | The siamang; — called also ungka ape. |
| ungod | verb t. | To deprive of divinity; to undeify., To cause to recognize no god; to deprive of a god; to make atheistical. |
| ungot | adjective | Alt. of Ungotten |
| unhap | noun | Ill luck; misfortune. |
| unhat | verb t. & i. | To take off the hat of; to remove one’s hat, especially as a mark of respect. |
| uniat | noun | Alt. of Uniate |
| unify | verb t. | To cause to be one; to make into a unit; to unite; to view as one. |
| union | noun | The act of uniting or joining two or more things into one, or the state of being united or joined; junction; coalition; combination., Agreement and conjunction of mind, spirit, will, affections, or the like; harmony; concord., That which is united, or made one; something formed by a combination or coalition of parts or members; a confederation; a consolidated body; a league; as, the weavers have formed a union; trades unions have become very numerous; the United States of America are often called the Union., A textile fabric composed of two or more materials, as cotton, silk, wool, etc., woven together., A large, fine pearl., A device emblematic of union, used on a national flag or ensign, sometimes, as in the military standard of Great Britain, covering the whole field; sometimes, as in the flag of the United States, and the English naval and marine flag, occupying the upper inner corner, the rest of the flag being called the fly. Also, a flag having such a device; especially, the flag of Great Britain., A joint or other connection uniting parts of machinery, or the like, as the elastic pipe of a tender connecting it with the feed pipe of a locomotive engine; especially, a pipe fitting for connecting pipes, or pipes and fittings, in such a way as to facilitate disconnection., A cask suspended on trunnions, in which fermentation is carried on. |
| unite | verb t. | To put together so as to make one; to join, as two or more constituents, to form a whole; to combine; to connect; to join; to cause to adhere; as, to unite bricks by mortar; to unite iron bars by welding; to unite two armies., Hence, to join by a legal or moral bond, as families by marriage, nations by treaty, men by opinions; to join in interest, affection, fellowship, or the like; to cause to agree; to harmonize; to associate; to attach., To become one; to be cemented or consolidated; to combine, as by adhesion or mixture; to coalesce; to grow together., To join in an act; to concur; to act in concert; as, all parties united in signing the petition., United; joint; as, unite consent. |
| unity | noun | The state of being one; oneness., Concord; harmony; conjunction; agreement; uniformity; as, a unity of proofs; unity of doctrine., Any definite quantity, or aggregate of quantities or magnitudes taken as one, or for which 1 is made to stand in calculation; thus, in a table of natural sines, the radius of the circle is regarded as unity., In dramatic composition, one of the principles by which a uniform tenor of story and propriety of representation are preserved; conformity in a composition to these; in oratory, discourse, etc., the due subordination and reference of every part to the development of the leading idea or the eastablishment of the main proposition., Such a combination of parts as to constitute a whole, or a kind of symmetry of style and character., The peculiar characteristics of an estate held by several in joint tenancy. |
| unked | adjective | Odd; strange; ugly; old; uncouth., Lonely; dreary; unkard. |
| unkle | noun | See Uncle. |
| unlap | verb t. | To unfold. |
| unlaw | verb t. | To deprive of the authority or character of law., To put beyond protection of law; to outlaw., To impose a fine upon; to fine., Any transgression or offense against the law., A fine imposed as a penalty for violation of the law. |
| unlay | verb t. | To untwist; as, to unlay a rope. |
| unman | verb t. | To deprive of the distinctive qualities of a human being, as reason, or the like., To emasculate; to deprive of virility., To deprive of the courage and fortitude of a man; to break or subdue the manly spirit in; to cause to despond; to dishearten; to make womanish., To deprive of men; as, to unman a ship. |
| unmew | verb t. | To release from confinement or restraint. |
| unnun | verb t. | To remove from condition of being a nun. |
| unoil | verb t. | To remove the oil from. |
| unpay | verb t. | To undo, take back, or annul, as a payment. |
| unpeg | verb t. | To remove a peg or pegs from; to unfasten; to open. |
| unpen | verb t. | To release from a pen or from confinement. |
| unpin | verb t. | To loose from pins; to remove the pins from; to unfasten; as, to unpin a frock; to unpin a frame. |
| unrig | verb t. | To strip of rigging; as, to unrig a ship. |
| unrip | verb t. | To rip; to cut open. |
| unsad | adjective | Unsteady; fickle. |
| unsay | verb t. | To recant or recall, as what has been said; to refract; to take back again; to make as if not said. |
| unset | adjective | Not set; not fixed or appointed. |
| unsew | verb t. | To undo, as something sewn, or something inclosed by sewing; to rip apart; to take out the stitches of. |
| unsex | verb t. | To deprive of sex, or of qualities becoming to one’s sex; esp., to make unfeminine in character, manners, duties, or the like; as, to unsex a woman. |
| unsin | verb t. | To deprive of sinfulness, as a sin; to make sinless. |
| untie | verb t. | To loosen, as something interlaced or knotted; to disengage the parts of; as, to untie a knot., To free from fastening or from restraint; to let loose; to unbind., To resolve; to unfold; to clear., To become untied or loosed. |
| until | preposition | |
| unwit | verb t. | To deprive of wit., Want of wit or understanding; ignorance. |
| upbar | verb t. | To fasten with a bar., To remove the bar or bards of, as a gate; to under. |
| upend | verb t. | To end up; to set on end, as a cask. |
| uphaf | imp. of Upheave. | |
| upher | noun | A fir pole of from four to seven inches diameter, and twenty to forty feet long, sometimes roughly hewn, used for scaffoldings, and sometimes for slight and common roofs, for which use it is split. |
| uplay | verb t. | To hoard. |
| upper | comp. | Being further up, literally or figuratively; higher in place, position, rank, dignity, or the like; superior; as, the upper lip; the upper side of a thing; the upper house of a legislature., The upper leather for a shoe; a vamp. |
| uprun | verb i. | To run up; to ascend. |
| upset | verb t. | To set up; to put upright., To thicken and shorten, as a heated piece of iron, by hammering on the end., To shorten (a tire) in the process of resetting, originally by cutting it and hammering on the ends., To overturn, overthrow, or overset; as, to upset a carriage; to upset an argument., To disturb the self-possession of; to disorder the nerves of; to make ill; as, the fright upset her., To become upset., Set up; fixed; determined; — used chiefly or only in the phrase upset price; that is, the price fixed upon as the minimum for property offered in a public sale, or, in an auction, the price at which property is set up or started by the auctioneer, and the lowest price at which it will be sold., The act of upsetting, or the state of being upset; an overturn; as, the wagon had an upset. |
| upsun | noun | The time during which the sun is up, or above the horizon; the time between sunrise and sunset. |
| uptie | verb t. | To tie up. |
| upupa | noun | A genus of birds which includes the common hoopoe. |
| upyat | imp. of Upgive. | |
| urali | noun | See Curare. |
| urare | noun | Alt. of Urari |
| urari | noun | See Curare. |
| urate | noun | A salt of uric acid; as, sodium urate; ammonium urate. |
| urban | adjective | Of or belonging to a city or town; as, an urban population., Belonging to, or suiting, those living in a city; cultivated; polite; urbane; as, urban manners. |
| ureal | adjective | Of or pertaining to urea; containing, or consisting of, urea; as, ureal deposits. |
| uredo | noun | One of the stages in the life history of certain rusts (Uredinales), regarded at one time as a distinct genus. It is a summer stage preceding the teleutospore, or winter stage. See Uredinales, in the Supplement., Nettle rash. See Urticaria. |
| urged | imp. & past participle | of Urge |
| urger | noun | One who urges. |
| urine | noun | In mammals, a fluid excretion from the kidneys; in birds and reptiles, a solid or semisolid excretion., To urinate. |
| urite | noun | One of the segments of the abdomen or post-abdomen of arthropods. |
| urith | noun | The bindings of a hedge. |
| urnal | adjective | Of or pertaining to an urn; effected by an urn or urns. |
| ursal | noun | The ursine seal. See the Note under 1st Seal. |
| urson | noun | The Canada porcupine. See Porcupine. |
| ursuk | noun | The bearded seal. |
| ursus | noun | A genus of Carnivora including the common bears. |
| urubu | noun | The black vulture (Catharista atrata). It ranges from the Southern United States to South America. See Vulture. |
| usage | noun | The act of using; mode of using or treating; treatment; conduct with respect to a person or a thing; as, good usage; ill usage; hard usage., Manners; conduct; behavior., Long-continued practice; customary mode of procedure; custom; habitual use; method., Customary use or employment, as of a word or phrase in a particular sense or signification., Experience. |
| usant | adjective | Using; accustomed. |
| using | present participle & vb. noun | of Use |
| usher | noun | An officer or servant who has the care of the door of a court, hall, chamber, or the like; hence, an officer whose business it is to introduce strangers, or to walk before a person of rank. Also, one who escorts persons to seats in a church, theater, etc., An under teacher, or assistant master, in a school., To introduce or escort, as an usher, forerunner, or harbinger; to forerun; — sometimes followed by in or forth; as, to usher in a stranger; to usher forth the guests; to usher a visitor into the room. |
| usnea | noun | A genus of lichens, most of the species of which have long, gray, pendulous, and finely branched fronds. Usnea barbata is the common bearded lichen which grows on branches of trees in northern forests. |
| usnic | adjective | Pertaining to, or designating, a complex acid obtained, as a yellow crystalline substance, from certain genera of lichens (Usnea, Parmelia, etc.). |
| usual | noun | Such as is in common use; such as occurs in ordinary practice, or in the ordinary course of events; customary; ordinary; habitual; common. |
| usure | verb i. | To practice usury; to charge unlawful interest., Usury. |
| usurp | verb t. | To seize, and hold in possession, by force, or without right; as, to usurp a throne; to usurp the prerogatives of the crown; to usurp power; to usurp the right of a patron is to oust or dispossess him., To commit forcible seizure of place, power, functions, or the like, without right; to commit unjust encroachments; to be, or act as, a usurper. |
| usury | verb t. | A premium or increase paid, or stipulated to be paid, for a loan, as of money; interest., The practice of taking interest., Interest in excess of a legal rate charged to a borrower for the use of money. |
| utica | adjective | Of, pertaining to, or designating, a subdivision of the Trenton Period of the Lower Silurian, characterized in the State of New York by beds of shale. |
| utile | verb t. | Profitable; useful. |
| utter | adjective | Outer., Situated on the outside, or extreme limit; remote from the center; outer., Complete; perfect; total; entire; absolute; as, utter ruin; utter darkness., Peremptory; unconditional; unqualified; final; as, an utter refusal or denial., To put forth or out; to reach out., To dispose of in trade; to sell or vend., hence, to put in circulation, as money; to put off, as currency; to cause to pass in trade; — often used, specifically, of the issue of counterfeit notes or coins, forged or fraudulent documents, and the like; as, to utter coin or bank notes., To give public expression to; to disclose; to publish; to speak; to pronounce. |
| uvate | noun | A conserve made of grapes. |
| uvrou | noun | See Euphroe. |
| uvula | noun | The pendent fleshy lobe in the middle of the posterior border of the soft palate. |
| uzema | noun | A Burman measure of twelve miles. |