Word Meanings - CHANCERY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

In England, formerly, the highest court of judicature next to the Parliament, exercising jurisdiction at law, but chiefly in equity; but under the jurisdiction act of 1873 it became the chancery division of the High Court of Justice, and now exercises jurisdiction only in equity.

• Undergrove
  A grove of shrubs or low trees under taller ones.
• Understrapper
  A petty fellow; an inferior agent; an underling.
• Court-martial
  A court consisting of military or naval officers, for the trial of one belonging to the army or navy, or of offenses against military or naval law.
• Underjoin
  To join below or beneath; to subjoin.
• Undertenancy
  Tenancy or tenure under a tenant or lessee; the tenure of an undertenant.
• Exercising
  of Exercise
• Underlip
  The lower lip.
• Underween
  To undervalue.
• Parliamentarily
  In a parliamentary manner.
• Underyoke
  To subject to the yoke; to make subject.
• Underbrace
  To brace, fasten, or bind underneath or below.
• Underplay
  To play in a subordinate, or in an inferior manner; to underact a part.
• UNDERPROPPER
  One who, or that which, underprops or supports.
• Undercoat
  A coat worn under another; a light coat, as distinguished from an overcoat, or a greatcoat.
• Underrun
  To run or pass under; especially (Naut.), to pass along and under, as a cable, for the purpose of taking it in, or of examining it.
• Underdolven
  p. p. of Underdelve.
• Undershoot
  To shoot short of (a mark).
• Underfurrow
  To cover as under a furrow; to plow in; as, to underfurrow seed or manure.
• Undersparred
  Having spars smaller than the usual dimension; -- said of vessels.

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