Word Meanings - UNDERGROWN - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Of small stature; not grown to a full height or size.

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• SMALLISH
  Somewhat small. G. W. Cable.
• SMALLCLOTHES
  A man's garment for the hips and thighs; breeches. See Breeches.
• STATURE
  The natural height of an animal body; -- generally used of the human body. Foreign men of mighty stature came. Dryden. (more info) originally, an upright posture, hence, height or size of the body,
• SMALLPOX
  A contagious, constitutional, febrile disease characterized by a peculiar eruption; variola. The cutaneous eruption is at first a collection of papules which become vesicles (first flat, subsequently umbilicated) and then pustules, and finally thick
• SMALL
  sm$l; akin to D. smal narrow, OS. & OHG. smal small, G. schmal narrow, Dan. & Sw. smal, Goth. smals small, Icel. smali smal cattle, sheep, or goats; cf. Gr. 1. Having little size, compared with other things of the same kind; little in quantity
• SMALLAGE
  A biennial umbelliferous plant native of the seacoats of Europe and Asia. When deprived of its acrid and even poisonous properties by cultivation, it becomes celery.
• 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
• SMALLY
  In a small quantity or degree; with minuteness. Ascham.
• 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.
• STATURED
  Arrived at full stature.
• HEIGHTENER
  One who, or that which, heightens.
• SMALLNESS
  The quality or state of being small.
• SMALLS
  See 3
• GROWN
  p. p. of Grow.
• SMALLSWORD
  A light sword used for thrusting only; especially, the sword worn by civilians of rank in the eighteenth century.
• DISMALLY
  In a dismal manner; gloomily; sorrowfully; uncomfortably.
• FULL-GROWN
  Having reached the limits of growth; mature. "Full-grown wings." Lowell.
• LIVER-GROWN
  Having an enlarged liver. Dunglison.
• MOSS-GROWN
  Overgrown with moss.
• LUNG-GROWN
  Having lungs that adhere to the pleura.
• GRASS-GROWN
  Overgrown with grass; as, a grass-grown road.
• UNDERGROWN
  Of small stature; not grown to a full height or size.
• ABYSMALLY
  To a fathomless depth; profoundly. "Abysmally ignorant." G. Eliot.
• AHEIGHT
  Aloft; on high. "Look up aheight." Shak.