Word Meanings - SHALE - Book Publishers vocabulary database
A fine-grained sedimentary rock of a thin, laminated, and often friable, structure. Bituminous shale. See under Bituminous. (more info) 1. A shell or husk; a cod or pod. "The green shales of a bean." Chapman. 2. Etym:
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- UNDERDOER
One who underdoes; a shirk. - UNDERBRED
Not thoroughly bred; ill-bred; as, an underbred fellow. Goldsmith. - GREENLANDER
A native of Greenland. - UNDERSECRETARY
A secretary who is subordinate to the chief secretary; an assistant secretary; as, an undersecretary of the Treasury. - GREENLET
l. One of numerous species of small American singing birds, of the genus Vireo, as the solitary, or blue-headed (Vireo solitarius); the brotherly-love ; the warbling greenlet ; the yellow-throated greenlet and others. See Vireo. 2. Any species - SHELL-LESS
, a. Having no shell. J. Burroughs. - 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. - GRAINED
Having tubercles or grainlike processes, as the petals or sepals of some flowers. (more info) 1. Having a grain; divided into small particles or grains; showing the grain; hence, rough. 2. Dyed in grain; ingrained. Persons lightly dipped, - UNDERCREST
To support as a crest; to bear. Shak. - UNDERGROUND INSURANCE
Wildcat insurance. - UNDERSAY
To say by way of derogation or contradiction. Spenser. - GREENSAND
A variety of sandstone, usually imperfectly consolidated, consisting largely of glauconite, a silicate of iron and potash of a green color, mixed with sand and a trace of phosphate of lime. Note: Greensand is often called marl, because - UNDERTAPSTER
Assistant to a tapster. - GREENFISH
See POLLOCK - GREENOCKITE
Native cadmium sulphide, a mineral occurring in yellow hexagonal crystals, also as an earthy incrustation. - GOROON SHELL
A large, handsome, marine, univalve shell . - VALVE-SHELL
Any fresh-water gastropod of the genus Valvata. - PLUNDERER
One who plunders or pillages. - SPOUTSHELL
Any marine gastropod shell of the genus Apporhais having an elongated siphon. See Illust. under Rostrifera. - TEN-POUNDER
A large oceanic fish found in the tropical parts of all the oceans. It is used chiefly for bait. - DUNDERHEAD
A dunce; a numskull; a blockhead. Beau. & Fl.