Word Meanings - KINGSTONKINGSTONE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The black angel fish. See Angel fish, under Angel.

• Underdose
  A dose which is less than required; a small or insufficient dose.
• Undershot
  Having the lower incisor teeth projecting beyond the upper ones, as in the bulldog.
• Blackbird
  In England, a species of thrush (Turdus merula), a singing bird with a fin note; the merle. In America the name is given to several birds, as the Quiscalus versicolor, or crow blackbird; the Agelaeus phoeniceus, or red-winged blackbird; the cowbir
• Under-garment
  A garment worn below another.
• Underspend
  To spend less than.
• Blackfin
  See Bluefin.
• Undergrow
  To grow to an inferior, or less than the usual, size or height.
• Understrapping
  Becoming an understrapper; subservient.
• Blacklead
  To coat or to polish with black lead.
• Underkeep
  To keep under, or in subjection; to suppress.
• Undertenant
  The tenant of a tenant; one who holds lands or tenements of a tenant or lessee.
• Black pudding
  A kind of sausage made of blood, suet, etc., thickened with meal.
• Underlock
  A lock of wool hanging under the belly of a sheep.
• Underwing
  One of the posterior wings of an insect.
• Blackwork
  Work wrought by blacksmiths; -- so called in distinction from that wrought by whitesmiths.
• Underneath
  Beneath; below; in a lower place; under; as, a channel underneath the soil.
• ANGELFISH
  See under Angel.
• Underbranch
  A lower branch.
• Underplot
  A series of events in a play, proceeding collaterally with the main story, and subservient to it.
• BLACKHOLE
  A dungeon or dark cell in a prison; a military lock-up or guardroom; -- now commonly with allusion to the cell (the Black Hole) in a fort at Calcutta, into which 146 English prisoners were thrust by the nabob Suraja Dowla on the night of June 20, 17656,

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