Word Meanings - CANADA - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A British province in North America, giving its name to various plants and animals. Canada balsam. See under Balsam. -- Canada goose. See Whisky Jack. -- Canada lynx. See Lynx. -- Canada porcupine See Porcupine, and Urson. -- Canada rice

Additional info about word: CANADA

A British province in North America, giving its name to various plants and animals. Canada balsam. See under Balsam. -- Canada goose. See Whisky Jack. -- Canada lynx. See Lynx. -- Canada porcupine See Porcupine, and Urson. -- Canada rice See under Rick. -- Canada robin , the cedar bird.

Related words: (words related to CANADA)

• UNDERDOER
  One who underdoes; a shirk.
• UNDERBRED
  Not thoroughly bred; ill-bred; as, an underbred fellow. Goldsmith.
• GOOSEFOOT
  A genus of herbs mostly annual weeds; pigweed.
• UNDERSECRETARY
  A secretary who is subordinate to the chief secretary; an assistant secretary; as, an undersecretary of the Treasury.
• UNDERPLOT
  1. A series of events in a play, proceeding collaterally with the main story, and subservient to it. Dryden. 2. A clandestine scheme; a trick. Addison.
• GOOSERY
  1. A place for keeping geese. 2. The characteristics or actions of a goose; silliness. The finical goosery of your neat sermon actor. Milton.
• UNDERNICENESS
  A want of niceness; indelicacy; impropriety.
• UNDERSOIL
  The soil beneath the surface; understratum; subsoil.
• UNDERDOLVEN
  p. p. of Underdelve.
• UNDERNIME
  1. To receive; to perceive. He the savor undernom Which that the roses and the lilies cast. Chaucer. 2. To reprove; to reprehend. Piers Plowman.
• UNDERPROP
  To prop from beneath; to put a prop under; to support; to uphold. Underprop the head that bears the crown. Fenton.
• UNDERCREST
  To support as a crest; to bear. Shak.
• UNDERGROUND INSURANCE
  Wildcat insurance.
• UNDERSAY
  To say by way of derogation or contradiction. Spenser.
• UNDERTAPSTER
  Assistant to a tapster.
• UNDERDELVE
  To delve under.
• UNDERSTOOD
  imp. & p. p. of Understand.
• NORTHERNMOST
  Farthest north.
• UNDERDO
  To do less than is requisite or proper; -- opposed to overdo. Grew.
• WHISKYFIED; WHISKEYFIED
  Drunk with whisky; intoxicated. Thackeray.
• PLUNDERER
  One who plunders or pillages.
• DUNDERHEAD
  A dunce; a numskull; a blockhead. Beau. & Fl.
• TEN-POUNDER
  A large oceanic fish found in the tropical parts of all the oceans. It is used chiefly for bait.
• TERGIVERSATOR
  One who tergiversates; one who suffles, or practices evasion.