Word Meanings - PLACOPHORA - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A division of gastropod Mollusca, including the chitons. The back is covered by eight shelly plates. Called also Polyplacophora. See Illust. under Chiton, and Isopleura.

• 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.
• 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.
• Cover-shame
  Something used to conceal infamy.
• Undergrown
  Of small stature; not grown to a full height or size.
• Understrata
  of Understratum
• Eightfold
  Eight times a quantity.
• Underkeeper
  A subordinate keeper or guardian.
• Underthing
  Something that is inferior and of little worth.
• Illustratively
  By way of illustration or elucidation.
• 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.
• CALLISTHENICCALLISTHENICS
  See Calisthenic, Calisthenics.
• Underbred
  Not thoroughly bred; ill-bred; as, an underbred fellow.
• Underpoise
  To weigh, estimate, or rate below desert; to undervalue.
• UNDERSLUNGUNDERHUNG
  Of an automobile body, suspended from the springs in such a manner that the frame of the chassis is below the axles, the object being to lower the center of gravity of the car.

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