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Word Meanings - CIRCLER - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A mean or inferior poet, perhaps from his habit of wandering around as a stroller; an itinerant poet. Also, a name given to the cyclic poets. See under Cyclic, a. B. Jonson.

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  • UNDERDOER
    One who underdoes; a shirk.
  • UNDERBRED
    Not thoroughly bred; ill-bred; as, an underbred fellow. Goldsmith.
  • 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.
  • UNDERNICENESS
    A want of niceness; indelicacy; impropriety.
  • UNDERSOIL
    The soil beneath the surface; understratum; subsoil.
  • UNDERDOLVEN
    p. p. of Underdelve.
  • UNDERPROP
    To prop from beneath; to put a prop under; to support; to uphold. Underprop the head that bears the crown. Fenton.
  • 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.
  • UNDERCREST
    To support as a crest; to bear. Shak.
  • UNDERGROUND INSURANCE
    Wildcat insurance.
  • UNDERSAY
    To say by way of derogation or contradiction. Spenser.
  • CYCLIC; CYCLICAL
    Of or pertaining to a cycle or circle; moving in cycles; as, cyclical time. Coleridge. Cyclic chorus, the chorus which performed the songs and dances of the dithyrambic odes at Athens, dancing round the altar of Bacchus in a circle. -- Cyclic poets,
  • UNDERTAPSTER
    Assistant to a tapster.
  • HABITURE
    Habitude.
  • UNDERDELVE
    To delve under.
  • UNDERSTOOD
    imp. & p. p. of Understand.
  • UNDERDO
    To do less than is requisite or proper; -- opposed to overdo. Grew.
  • UNDERCOAT
    1. A coat worn under another; a light coat, as distinguished from an overcoat, or a greatcoat. 2. A growth of short hair or fur partially concealed by a longer growth; as, a dog's undercoat.
  • INFERIORLY
    In an inferior manner, or on the inferior part.
  • INHABITATE
    To inhabit.
  • 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.
  • COHABITER
    A cohabitant. Hobbes.
  • INHABITATIVENESS
    A tendency or propensity to permanent residence in a place or abode; love of home and country.

 

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