Word Meanings - SAVEALL - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Anything which saves fragments, or prevents waste or loss. Specifically: (a) A device in a candlestick to hold the ends of candles, so that they be burned. (b) (Naut.) A small sail sometimes set under the foot of another sail, to catch the wind that would pass under it. Totten. (c) A trough to prevent waste in a paper-making machine.

• Underbid
  To bid less than, as when a contract or service is offered to the lowest bidder; to offer to contract, sell, or do for a less price than.
• Underpinning
  of Underpin
• Whichever
  Alt. of Whichsoever
• Undercliff
  A subordinate cliff on a shore, consisting of material that has fallen from the higher cliff above.
• Underput
  To put or send under.
• MAKEBELIEVE
  A feigning to believe, as in the play of children; a mere pretense; a fiction; an invention. "Childlike make-believe." Tylor. To forswear self-delusion and make-believe. M. Arnold.
• Burnettizing
  of Burnettize
• Underditch
  To dig an underground ditches in, so as to drain the surface; to underdrain; as, to underditch a field or a farm.
• Undersheriff
  A sheriff's deputy.
• WHICHEVERWHICHSOEVER
  Whether one or another; whether one or the other; which; that one (of two or more) which; as, whichever road you take, it will lead you to town.
• Catch-basin
  A cistern or vault at the point where a street gutter discharges into a sewer, to catch bulky matters which would not pass readily through the sewer.
• Underfoot
  Under the feet; underneath; below. See Under foot, under Foot, n.
• Undersoil
  The soil beneath the surface; understratum; subsoil.
• Devicefully
  In a deviceful manner.
• Undergraduateship
  The position or condition of an undergraduate.
• Understate
  To state or represent less strongly than may be done truthfully.
• Underhonest
  Not entirely honest.
• Undertaker
  One who undertakes; one who engages in any project or business.
• Preventable
  Capable of being prevented or hindered; as, preventable diseases.

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