Word Meanings - STILL-HUNT - Book Publishers vocabulary database
A hunting for game in a quiet and cautious manner, or under cover; stalking; hence, colloquially, the pursuit of any object quietly and cautiously. -- Still"-hunt`er, n. -- Still"-hunt`ing, n.
Related words: (words related to STILL-HUNT)
- UNDERDOER
One who underdoes; a shirk. - STILL
1. A vessel, boiler, or copper used in the distillation of liquids; specifically, one used for the distillation of alcoholic liquors; a retort. The name is sometimes applied to the whole apparatus used in in vaporization and condensation. 2. A - 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. - UNDERDOLVEN
p. p. of Underdelve. - UNDERSOIL
The soil beneath the surface; understratum; subsoil. - STALKY
Hard as a stalk; resembling a stalk. At the top bears a great stalky head. Mortimer. - 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. - OBJECTIVENESS
Objectivity. Is there such a motion or objectiveness of external bodies, which produceth light Sir M. Hale - UNDERSAY
To say by way of derogation or contradiction. Spenser. - UNDERGROUND INSURANCE
Wildcat insurance. - UNDERTAPSTER
Assistant to a tapster. - STILLBIRTH
The birth of a dead fetus. - COVER-POINT
The fielder in the games of cricket and lacrosse who supports "point." - UNDERDELVE
To delve under. - STILLY
Still; quiet; calm. The stilly hour when storms are gone. Moore. - PLUNDERER
One who plunders or pillages. - RECOVER
To cover again. Sir W. Scott. - INSTILL
To drop in; to pour in drop by drop; hence, to impart gradually; to infuse slowly; to cause to be imbibed. That starlight dews All silently their tears of love instill. Byron. How hast thou instilled Thy malice into thousands. Milton. Syn. -- To - 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.