Word Meanings - TURNUS - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A common, large, handsome, American swallowtail butterfly, now regarded as one of the forms of Papilio, / Jasoniades, glaucus. The wings are yellow, margined and barred with black, and with an orange-red spot near the posterior angle of the hind wings. Called also tiger swallowtail. See Illust. under Swallowtail.

• Blackener
  One who blackens.
• Large-hearted
  Having a large or generous heart or disposition; noble; liberal.
• Undergrown
  Of small stature; not grown to a full height or size.
• Understrata
  of Understratum
• Underwrit
  of Underwrite
• Black hole
  A dungeon or dark cell in a prison; a military lock-up or guardroom; -- now commonly with allusion to the cell (the Black Hole) in a fort at Calcutta, into which 146 English prisoners were thrust by the nabob Suraja Dowla on the night of June 20,
• Orange
  The fruit of a tree of the genus Citrus (C. Aurantium). It is usually round, and consists of pulpy carpels, commonly ten in number, inclosed in a leathery rind, which is easily separable, and is reddish yellow when ripe.
• Underkeeper
  A subordinate keeper or guardian.
• Underthing
  Something that is inferior and of little worth.
• Yellow-golds
  A certain plant, probably the yellow oxeye.
• Blackmoor
  See Blackamoor.
• Regarded
  of Regard
• Underlocker
  A person who inspects a mine daily; -- called also underviewer.
• AMERICANPROTECTIVEASSOCIATION
  A secret organization in the United States, formed in Iowa in 1887, ostensibly for the protection of American institutions by keeping Roman Catholics out of public office. Abbrev. commonly to A.
• Black vomit
  A copious vomiting of dark-colored matter; or the substance so discharged; -- one of the most fatal symptoms in yellow fever.
• Underniceness
  A want of niceness; indelicacy; impropriety.
• BLACKFACED
  Having a black, dark, or gloomy face or aspect.
• Calligrapher
  One skilled in calligraphy; a good penman.

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