Word Meanings - LONGICORNIA - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A division of beetles, including a large number of species, in which the antennae are very long. Most of them, while in the larval state, bore into the wood or beneath the bark of trees, and some species are very destructive to fruit and shade trees. See Apple borer, under Apple, and Locust beetle, under Locust.

• Statehood
  The condition of being a State; as, a territory seeking Statehood.
• Underling
  An inferior person or agent; a subordinate; hence, a mean, sorry fellow.
• Underwear
  That which is worn under the outside clothing; underclothes.
• Statesmanship
  The qualifications, duties, or employments of a statesman.
• Undermost
  Lowest, as in place, rank, or condition.
• Underwriter
  One who underwrites his name to the conditions of an insurance policy, especially of a marine policy; an insurer.
• Underboard
  Under the board, or table; hence, secretly; unfairly; underhand. See the Note under Aboveboard.
• Underpitch
  To fill underneath; to stuff.
• BEETLEHEADED
  Dull; stupid. Shak.
• Underclothing
  Same as Underclothes.
• Underreckon
  To reckon below what is right or proper; to underrate.
• UNDERTIDEUNDERTIME
  The under or after part of the day; undermeal; evening. [Obs.] He, coming home at undertime, there found The fairest creature that he ever saw. Spenser.
• Beneath
  Lower in place, with something directly over or on; under; underneath; hence, at the foot of.
• Underdoer
  One who underdoes; a shirk.
• Undershirt
  A shirt worn next the skin, under another shirt; -- called also undervest.
• Fruitery
  Fruit, taken collectively; fruitage.
• Underfurnish
  To supply with less than enough; to furnish insufficiently.
• Undersong
  The burden of a song; the chorus; the refrain.
• Largely
  In a large manner.
• Underground
  The place or space beneath the surface of the ground; subterranean space.

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