Word Meanings - SUBSTRATUM - Book Publishers vocabulary database

That which is laid or spread under; that which underlies something, as a layer of earth lying under another; specifically (Agric.), the subsoil.

• Underbearer
  One who supports or sustains; especially, at a funeral, one of those who bear the copse, as distinguished from a bearer, or pallbearer, who helps to hold up the pall.
• Underpinned
  of Underpin
• EARTHTONGUE
  A fungus of the genus Geoglossum.
• Layer
  One who, or that which, lays.
• Underclay
  A stratum of clay lying beneath a coal bed, often containing the roots of coal plants, especially the Stigmaria.
• Underpuller
  One who underpulls.
• SPREADEAGLED
  1. To place in a spread-eagle position, especially as a means of punishment. 2. being in a position with the arms and legs extended fully.
• Lychnis
  A genus of Old World plants belonging to the Pink family (Caryophyllaceae). Most of the species have brilliantly colored flowers and cottony leaves, which may have anciently answered as wicks for lamps. The botanical name is in common use for the
• Underdig
  To dig under or beneath; to undermine.
• Undershapen
  Under the usual shape or size; small; dwarfish.
• Lyencephalous
  Pertaining to, or characteristic of, the Lyencephala.
• Underfong
  To undertake; to take in hand; to receive.
• Undersleeve
  A sleeve of an under-garment; a sleeve worn under another,
• Lymphated
  Frightened into madness; raving.
• Undergraduate
  A member of a university or a college who has not taken his first degree; a student in any school who has not completed his course.
• Understandingly
  In an understanding manner; intelligibly; with full knowledge or comprehension; intelligently; as, to vote upon a question understandingly; to act or judge understandingly.
• Lynden
  See Linden.
• Underhew
  To hew less than is usual or proper; specifically, to hew, as a piece of timber which should be square, in such a manner that it appears to contain a greater number of cubic feet than it really does contain.
• Undertake
  To take upon one's self; to engage in; to enter upon; to take in hand; to begin to perform; to set about; to attempt.
• Lyrid
  One of the group of shooting stars which come into the air in certain years on or about the 19th of April; -- so called because the apparent path among the stars the stars if produced back wards crosses the constellation Lyra.

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