Word Meanings - ROCKET - Book Publishers vocabulary database
A cruciferous plant sometimes eaten in Europe as a salad. Damewort. Rocket larkspur. See below. Dyer's Rocket. See Dyer's broom, under Broom. -- Rocket larkspur , an annual plant with showy flowers in long racemes . -- Sea rocket , either
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A cruciferous plant sometimes eaten in Europe as a salad. Damewort. Rocket larkspur. See below. Dyer's Rocket. See Dyer's broom, under Broom. -- Rocket larkspur , an annual plant with showy flowers in long racemes . -- Sea rocket , either of two fleshy cruciferous plants found on the seashore of Europe and America. -- Yellow rocket , a common cruciferous weed with yellow flowers .
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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. - ANNUALIST
One who writes for, or who edits, an annual. - UNDERTAPSTER
Assistant to a tapster. - 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. - UNDERCAST
To cast under or beneath. - UNDERRATE
A price less than the value; as, to sell a thing at an underrate. Cowley. - DISPLANTATION
The act of displanting; removal; displacement. Sir W. Raleigh. - SUPPLANT
heels, to throw down; sub under + planta the sole of the foot, also, 1. To trip up. "Supplanted, down he fell." Milton. 2. To remove or displace by stratagem; to displace and take the place of; to supersede; as, a rival supplants another in the - PLUNDERER
One who plunders or pillages. - SEMIANNUALLY
Every half year. - 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.