Word Meanings - UNDERHEW - Book Publishers vocabulary database

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.

• SQUARETOED
  Having the toe square. Obsolete as fardingales, ruffs, and square-toed shoes. V. Knox.
• Mannered
  Having a certain way, esp. a polite way, of carrying and conducting one's self.
• Property
  That which is proper to anything; a peculiar quality of a thing; that which is inherent in a subject, or naturally essential to it; an attribute; as, sweetness is a property of sugar.
• Timbered
  of Timber
• SQUARETOES
  A precise person; -- used contemptuously or jocularly. Thackeray.
• Mannerism
  Adherence to a peculiar style or manner; a characteristic mode of action, bearing, or treatment, carried to excess, especially in literature or art.
• Piecemeal
  In pieces; in parts or fragments.
• Timbering
  of Timber
• WHICHEVERWHICHSOEVER
  Whether one or another; whether one or the other; which; that one (of two or more) which; as, whichever road you take, it will lead you to town.
• Contained
  of Contain
• Mannerist
  One addicted to mannerism; a person who, in action, bearing, or treatment, carries characteristic peculiarities to excess. See citation under Mannerism.
• Piecemealed
  Divided into pieces.
• Shoulder
  The joint, or the region of the joint, by which the fore limb is connected with the body or with the shoulder girdle; the projection formed by the bones and muscles about that joint.
• Timberhead
  The top end of a timber, rising above the gunwale, and serving for belaying ropes, etc.; -- called also kevel head.
• Containing
  of Contain
• Mannerliness
  The quality or state of being mannerly; civility; complaisance.

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