Word Meanings - THANE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A dignitary under the Anglo-Saxons and Danes in England. Of these there were two orders, the king's thanes, who attended the kings in their courts and held lands immediately of them, and the ordinary thanes, who were lords of manors and who had particular jurisdiction within their limits. After the Conquest, this title was disused, and baron took its place.

• Underactor
  A subordinate actor.
• Underofficer
  A subordinate officer.
• AFTERDAMP
  An irrespirable gas, remaining after an explosion of fire damp in mines; choke damp. See Carbonic acid.
• Attendement
  Intent.
• Underbuilding
  Same as Substruction.
• Underprize
  To undervalue; to underestimate.
• ANGLOSAXONDOM
  The Anglo-Saxon domain (i. e., Great Britain and the United States, etc.); the Anglo-Saxon race.
• Disusage
  Gradual cessation of use or custom; neglect of use; disuse.
• Undercrest
  To support as a crest; to bear.
• Underscore
  To draw a mark or line under; to underline.
• UNDERGARMENT
  A garment worn below another.
• Landslide
  The slipping down of a mass of land from a mountain, hill, etc.
• Underfaction
  A subordinate party or faction.
• Undershut
  Closed from beneath.
• Particularizing
  of Particularize
• Underwent
  of Undergo
• Understairs
  The basement or cellar.
• Placentalia
  A division of Mammalia including those that have a placenta, or all the orders above the marsupials.
• Underhand
  Secret; clandestine; hence, mean; unfair; fraudulent.
• Understroke
  To underline or underscore.

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