Word Meanings - UNDERGROW - Book Publishers vocabulary database
To grow to an inferior, or less than the usual, size or height. Wyclif.
Related words: (words related to UNDERGROW)
- INFERIORLY
In an inferior manner, or on the inferior part. - INFERIOR
Junior or subordinate in rank; as, an inferior officer. Inferior court , a court subject to the jurisdiction of another court known as the superior, or higher, court. -- Inferior letter, Inferior figure , a small letter or figure standing at the - INFERIORITY
The state of being inferior; a lower state or condition; as, inferiority of rank, of talents, of age, of worth. A deep sense of our own great inferiority. Boyle. - HEIGHT
AS. heáh, fr. heah high; akin to D. hoogte, Sw. höjd, Dan. höide, 1. The condition of being high; elevated position. Behold the height of the stars, how high they are! Job xxii. 12. 2. The distance to which anything rises above its foot, above - HEIGHTEN
1. To make high; to raise higher; to elevate. 2. To carry forward; to advance; to increase; to augment; to aggravate; to intensify; to render more conspicuous; -- used of things, good or bad; as, to heighten beauty; to heighten a flavor or a tint. - WYCLIFITE; WYCLIFFITE
A follower of Wyclif, the English reformer; a Lollard. - USUAL
Such as is in common use; such as occurs in ordinary practice, or in the ordinary course of events; customary; ordinary; habitual; common. Consultation with oracles was a thing very usual and frequent in their times. Hooker. We can make friends - HEIGHTENER
One who, or that which, heightens. - UNUSUALITY
Unusualness. Poe. - AHEIGHT
Aloft; on high. "Look up aheight." Shak. - UNUSUAL
Not usual; uncommon; rare; as, an unusual season; a person of unusual grace or erudition. -- Un*u"su*al*ly, adv. -- Un*u"su*al*ness, n. - BREASTHEIGHT
The interior slope of a fortification, against which the garnison lean in firing.