Word Meanings - WAISTCOAT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A short, sleeveless coat or garment for men, worn under the coat, extending no lower than the hips, and covering the waist; a vest.

• Underjaw
  The lower jaw.
• Undertaxed
  Taxed too little, or at a lower rate than others.
• Shortening
  of Shorten
• Underling
  An inferior person or agent; a subordinate; hence, a mean, sorry fellow.
• Underwear
  That which is worn under the outside clothing; underclothes.
• Shortwing
  Any one of several species of small wrenlike Asiatic birds having short wings and a short tail. They belong to Brachypterix, Callene, and allied genera.
• Undermost
  Lowest, as in place, rank, or condition.
• Underwriter
  One who underwrites his name to the conditions of an insurance policy, especially of a marine policy; an insurer.
• Underboard
  Under the board, or table; hence, secretly; unfairly; underhand. See the Note under Aboveboard.
• Underpitch
  To fill underneath; to stuff.
• LOWERCASE
  Pertaining to, or kept in, the lower case; -- used to denote the small letters, in distinction from capitals and small capitals. See the Note under 1st Case, n., 3.
• Underclothing
  Same as Underclothes.
• Underreckon
  To reckon below what is right or proper; to underrate.
• UNDERPLANT
  To plant under; specif. (Forestry),
• Underdoer
  One who underdoes; a shirk.
• Undershirt
  A shirt worn next the skin, under another shirt; -- called also undervest.
• Underfurnish
  To supply with less than enough; to furnish insufficiently.
• Undersong
  The burden of a song; the chorus; the refrain.
• Covertness
  Secrecy; privacy.
• Underground
  The place or space beneath the surface of the ground; subterranean space.

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