Word Meanings - STREPSIPTERA - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A group of small insects having the anterior wings rudimentary, and in the form of short and slender twisted appendages, while the posterior ones are large and membranous. They are parasitic in the larval state on bees, wasps, and the like; -- called also Rhipiptera. See Illust. under Rhipipter.

• 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
• SHORTDATED
  Having little time to run from the date. "Thy short-dated life." Sandys.
• Illustration
  The act of illustrating; the act of making clear and distinct; education; also, the state of being illustrated, or of being made clear and distinct.
• Undercliff
  A subordinate cliff on a shore, consisting of material that has fallen from the higher cliff above.
• Underput
  To put or send under.
• UNDERPROPPER
  One who, or that which, underprops or supports.
• Largesse
  Liberality; generosity; bounty.
• 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.
• Shortage
  Amount or extent of deficiency, as determined by some requirement or standard; as, a shortage in money accounts.
• Underfoot
  Under the feet; underneath; below. See Under foot, under Foot, n.
• Undersoil
  The soil beneath the surface; understratum; subsoil.
• Shorthead
  A sucking whale less than one year old; -- so called by sailors.
• Undergraduateship
  The position or condition of an undergraduate.
• Understate
  To state or represent less strongly than may be done truthfully.
• Smallclothes
  A man's garment for the hips and thighs; breeches. See Breeches.
• Underhonest
  Not entirely honest.
• Undertaker
  One who undertakes; one who engages in any project or business.
• Calligraphic
  Alt. of Calligraphical

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