Word Meanings - TURNBULLSBLUE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The double cyanide of ferrous and ferric iron, a dark blue amorphous substance having a coppery luster, used in dyeing, calico printing, etc. Cf. Prussian blue, under Prussian.

• Underleaf
  A prolific sort of apple, good for cider.
• Undervaluation
  The act of undervaluing; a rate or value not equal to the real worth.
• Undermine
  To excavate the earth beneath, or the part of, especially for the purpose of causing to fall or be overthrown; to form a mine under; to sap; as, to undermine a wall.
• Underworld
  The lower of inferior world; the world which is under the heavens; the earth.
• Under-arm
  Done (as bowling) with the arm not raised above the elbow, that is, not swung far out from the body; underhand. Cf. Over-arm and Round-Arm.
• Underpeer
  To peer under.
• DOUBLEDECKER
  A man-of-war having two gun decks. 2. A public conveyance, as a street car, with seats on the roof. [Colloq.]
• Underchanter
  Same as Subchanter.
• Underproportioned
  Of inadequate or inferior proportions; small; poor.
• DOUBLETONGUE
  Deceit; duplicity. Now cometh the sin of double-tongue, such as speak fair before folk and wickedly behind. Chaucer.
• Undercut
  The lower or under side of a sirloin of beef; the fillet.
• Underset
  To prop or support.
• UNDERPROPPER
  One who, or that which, underprops or supports.
• Double-charge
  To load with a double charge, as of gunpowder.
• Underfellow
  An underling // mean, low fellow.
• Underskinker
  Undertapster.
• Double-milled
  Twice milled or fulled, to render more compact or fine; -- said of cloth; as, double-milled kerseymere.
• Undergod
  A lower or inferio/ god; a subordinate deity; a demigod.

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