Word Meanings - SUBMEDIAL - Book Publishers vocabulary database
Lying under the middle.
Related words: (words related to SUBMEDIAL)
- 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. - UNDERDOLVEN
p. p. of Underdelve. - UNDERSOIL
The soil beneath the surface; understratum; subsoil. - LYRE BIRD
Any one of two or three species of Australian birds of the genus Menura. The male is remarkable for having the sixteen tail feathers very long and, when spread, arranged in the form of a lyre. The common lyre bird , inhabiting New South Wales, - LYSIMETER
An instrument for measuring the water that percolates through a certain depth of soil. Knight. - MIDDLE
1. Equally distant from the extreme either of a number of things or of one thing; mean; medial; as, the middle house in a row; a middle rank or station in life; flowers of middle summer; men of middle age. 2. Intermediate; intervening. - 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. - UNDERSAY
To say by way of derogation or contradiction. Spenser. - UNDERGROUND INSURANCE
Wildcat insurance. - UNDERTAPSTER
Assistant to a tapster. - LYCOPODE
See LYCOPODIUM - LYTHONTHRIPTIC; LYTHONTRIPTIC
See LITHONTRIPTIC - LYONNAISE
Applied to boiled potatoes cut into small pieces and heated in oil or butter. They are usually flavored with onion and parsley. - LYMPH
An alkaline colorless fluid, contained in the lymphatic vessels, coagulable like blood, but free from red blood corpuscles. It is absorbed from the various tissues and organs of the body, and is finally discharged by the thoracic and right lymphatic - FAMILIARLY
In a familiar manner. - LIVINGLY
In a living state. Sir T. Browne. - STILLY
Still; quiet; calm. The stilly hour when storms are gone. Moore. - SAVELY
Safely. Chaucer. - POLYPHYLLOUS
Many-leaved; as, a polyphyllous calyx or perianth. - POLYCHROITE
The coloring matter of saffron; -- formerly so called because of the change of color on treatment with certain acids; -- called also crocin, and safranin. - SCOLYTID
Any one of numerous species of small bark-boring beetles of the genus Scolytus and allied genera. Also used adjectively. - LAUGHINGLY
With laughter or merriment. - OVERFLOWINGLY
In great abundance; exuberantly. Boyle. - SUNDRILY
In sundry ways; variously. - THIRSTILY
In a thirsty manner. - WHIP-TOM-KELLY
A vireo native of the West Indies and Florida; -- called also black-whiskered vireo. - DISPROPORTIONALLY
In a disproportional manner; unsuitably in form, quantity, or value; unequally. - STAUNCH; STAUNCHLY; STAUNCHNESS
See ETC - ASSISTANTLY
In a manner to give aid. - IMPISHLY
In the manner of an imp. - PRECIPITATELY
In a precipitate manner; headlong; hastily; rashly. Swift.