Word Meanings - WEDGE-TAILED - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Having a tail which has the middle pair of feathers longest, the rest successively and decidedly shorter, and all more or less attenuate; -- said of certain birds. See Illust. of Wood hoopoe, under Wood.

• Underground
  The place or space beneath the surface of the ground; subterranean space.
• Understock
  To supply insufficiently with stock.
• Havelock
  A light cloth covering for the head and neck, used by soldiers as a protection from sunstroke.
• Underjaw
  The lower jaw.
• Undertaxed
  Taxed too little, or at a lower rate than others.
• Illustration
  The act of illustrating; the act of making clear and distinct; education; also, the state of being illustrated, or of being made clear and distinct.
• Underling
  An inferior person or agent; a subordinate; hence, a mean, sorry fellow.
• Underwear
  That which is worn under the outside clothing; underclothes.
• Middlemost
  Being in the middle, or nearest the middle; midmost.
• 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.
• MIDDLEAGE
  Of or pertaining to the Middle Ages; mediæval.
• Underclothing
  Same as Underclothes.
• Underreckon
  To reckon below what is right or proper; to underrate.
• 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.

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