Word Meanings - HUNTER - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A kind of spider. See Hunting spider, under Hunting. 6. A hunting watch, or one of which the crystal is protected by a metallic cover. Hunter's room, the lunation after the harvest moon. -- Hunter's screw , a differential screw, so named from the

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A kind of spider. See Hunting spider, under Hunting. 6. A hunting watch, or one of which the crystal is protected by a metallic cover. Hunter's room, the lunation after the harvest moon. -- Hunter's screw , a differential screw, so named from the inventor. See under Differential. (more info) 1. One who hunts wild animals either for sport or for food; a huntsman. 2. A dog that scents game, or is trained to the chase; a hunting dog. Shak. 3. A horse used in the chase; especially, a thoroughbred, bred and trained for hunting. 4. One who hunts or seeks after anything, as if for game; as, a fortune hunter a place hunter. No keener hunter after glory breathes. Tennyson.

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• UNDERBRED
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• 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.
• AFTERCAST
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• UNDERSOIL
  The soil beneath the surface; understratum; subsoil.
• UNDERDOLVEN
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• NAMELESSLY
  In a nameless manner.
• UNDERPROP
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• UNDERNIME
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• UNDERCREST
  To support as a crest; to bear. Shak.
• NAMABLE
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• UNDERGROUND INSURANCE
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• UNDERSAY
  To say by way of derogation or contradiction. Spenser.
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