Word Meanings - UNDER-ARM - Book Publishers vocabulary database

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.

• Underhandedly
  In an underhand manner.
• Raisin
  A grape, or a bunch of grapes.
• Roundish
  Somewhat round; as, a roundish seed; a roundish figure.
• Roundlet
  A little circle.
• ABOVECITED
  Cited before, in the preceding part of a book or writing.
• Bowless
  Destitute of a bow.
• Raisonne
  Arranged systematically, or according to classes or subjects; as, a catalogue raisonne. See under Catalogue.
• Roundly
  In a round form or manner.
• ABOVEMENTIONEDABOVENAMED
  Mentioned or named before; aforesaid.
• Bowline
  A rope fastened near the middle of the leech or perpendicular edge of the square sails, by subordinate ropes, called bridles, and used to keep the weather edge of the sail tight forward, when the ship is closehauled.
• Roundness
  The quality or state of being round in shape; as, the roundness of the globe, of the orb of the sun, of a ball, of a bowl, a column, etc.
• BOWLDERBOULDER
  A mass of any rock, whether rounded or not, that has been transported by natural agencies from its native bed. See Drift. Bowlder clay, the unstratified clay deposit of the Glacial or Drift epoch, often containing large numbers of bowlders. -- Bowlder
• Aboveboard
  Above the board or table. Hence: in open sight; without trick, concealment, or deception.
• Rounded
  of Round
• Roundridge
  To form into round ridges by plowing.
• BOWLEGGED
  Having crooked legs, esp. with the knees bent outward. Johnson.

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