Word Meanings - PEARLSTONE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A glassy volcanic rock of a grayish color and pearly luster, often having a spherulitic concretionary structure due to the curved cracks produced by contraction in cooling. See Illust. under Perlitic.

• Underdrain
  An underground drain or trench with openings through which the water may percolate from the soil or ground above.
• Undershrievalty
  The office or position of an undersheriff.
• Curvograph
  An arcograph.
• Underget
  To get under or beneath; also, to understand.
• Undersphere
  A sphere which is smaller than, and in its movements subject to, another; a satellite.
• Havildar
  In the British Indian armies, a noncommissioned officer of native soldiers, corresponding to a sergeant.
• Undergrown
  Of small stature; not grown to a full height or size.
• Understrata
  of Understratum
• Luster
  One who lusts.
• Underkeeper
  A subordinate keeper or guardian.
• Underthing
  Something that is inferior and of little worth.
• Producer
  One who produces, brings forth, or generates.
• Underlocker
  A person who inspects a mine daily; -- called also underviewer.
• Underwitted
  Weak in intellect; half-witted; silly.
• Underniceness
  A want of niceness; indelicacy; impropriety.
• Volcanically
  Like a volcano.
• Colorless
  Without color; not distinguished by any hue; transparent; as, colorless water.
• Underbred
  Not thoroughly bred; ill-bred; as, an underbred fellow.
• Underpoise
  To weigh, estimate, or rate below desert; to undervalue.

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