Word Meanings - GLYCERINGLYCERINE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

An oily, viscous liquid, C3H5(OH)3, colorless and odorless, and with a hot, sweetish taste, existing in the natural fats and oils as the base, combined with various acids, as oleic, margaric, stearic, and palmitic. It is a triatomic alcohol, and hence is also called glycerol. See Note under Gelatin. Note: It is obtained from fats by saponification, or, on a large scale, by the action of superheated steam. It is used as an ointment, as a solvent and vehicle for medicines, and as an adulterant in wine, beer, etc.

• Steamship
  A ship or seagoing vessel propelled by the power of steam; a steamer.
• Undermanned
  Insufficiently furnished with men; short-handed.
• Underworked
  of Underwork
• Callithumpian
  Of, pertaining to, or resembling, a callithump.
• Underaction
  Subordinate action; a minor action incidental or subsidiary to the main story; an episode.
• Undernime
  To receive; to perceive.
• Vehicled
  Conveyed in a vehicle; furnished with a vehicle.
• Combined
  of Combine
• Underbuilder
  A subordinate or assistant builder.
• Underpraise
  To praise below desert.
• UNDERAGE
  Not having arrived at adult age, or at years of discretion; hence, raw; green; immature; boyish; childish. [Obs.] I myself have loved a lady, and pursued her with a great deal of under-age protestation. J. Webster.
• Gelatine
  Animal jelly; glutinous material obtained from animal tissues by prolonged boiling. Specifically (Physiol. Chem.), a nitrogeneous colloid, not existing as such in the animal body, but formed by the hydrating action of boiling water on the collagen
• Undercreep
  To creep secretly or privily.
• Undersay
  To say by way of derogation or contradiction.
• Large-handed
  Having large hands, Fig.: Taking, or giving, in large quantities; rapacious or bountiful.
• Underestimate
  To set to/ low a value on; to estimate below the truth.
• Undershrub
  Partly shrublike.
• Liquidized
  of Liquidize
• Underglaze
  Applied under the glaze, that is, before the glaze, that is, before the glaze is put on; fitted to be so applied; -- said of colors in porcelain painting.
• Understair
  Of or pertaining to the kitchen, or the servants' quarters; hence, subordinate; menial.

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