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Word Meanings - UNDERHANDED - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. Underhand; clandestine. 2. Insufficiently provided with hands or workers; short-handed; sparsely populated. Norway . . . might defy the world, . . . but it is much underhanded now. Coleridge.

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  • DEFORMER
    One who deforms.
  • ANGULARITY
    The quality or state of being angular; angularness.
  • DISHONESTY
    1. Dishonor; dishonorableness; shame. "The hidden things of dishonesty." 2 Cor. iv. 2. 2. Want of honesty, probity, or integrity in principle; want of fairness and straightforwardness; a disposition to defraud, deceive, or betray; faithlessness.
  • BOW OAR
    . 1. The oar used by the bowman. 2. One who rows at the bow of a boat.
  • CROOKBILL
    A New Zealand plover , remarkable for having the end of the beak abruptly bent to the right.
  • CRAFTY
    1. Relating to, or characterized by, craft or skill; dexterous. "Crafty work." Piers Plowman. 2. Possessing dexterity; skilled; skillful. A noble crafty man of trees. Wyclif. 3. Skillful at deceiving others; characterized by craft; cunning; wily.
  • BOWGE
    To swell out. See Bouge.
  • BOWKNOT
    A knot in which a portion of the string is drawn through in the form of a loop or bow, so as to be readily untied.
  • TURNSTONE
    Any species of limicoline birds of the genera Strepsilas and Arenaria, allied to the plovers, especially the common American and European species . They are so called from their habit of turning up small stones in search of mollusks and
  • TURNINGNESS
    The quality of turning; instability; tergiversation. Sir P. Sidney.
  • TURNING
    The pieces, or chips, detached in the process of turning from the material turned. (more info) 1. The act of one who, or that which, turns; also, a winding; a bending course; a fiexure; a meander. Through paths and turnings often trod
  • CROOKES TUBE
    A vacuum tube in which the exhaustion is carried to a very high degree, with the production of a distinct class of effects; -- so called from W. Crookes who introduced it.
  • ASTUTE
    Critically discerning; sagacious; shrewd; subtle; crafty. Syn. -- Keen; eagle-eyed; penetrating; skilled; discriminating; cunning; sagacious; subtle; wily; crafty. As*tute"ly, adv. -- As*tute"ness, n.
  • BOWYER
    1. An archer; one who uses bow. 2. One who makes or sells bows.
  • TURN-SICK
    Giddy. Bacon.
  • BOWLER
    One who plays at bowls, or who rolls the ball in cricket or any other game.
  • CROOKBACK
    A crooked back; one who has a crooked or deformed back; a hunchback.
  • CUNNINGNESS
    Quality of being cunning; craft.
  • LOWERMOST
    Lowest.
  • SUBTLE
    subtil, OF. soutil, later subtil, F. subtil, L. subtilis; probably, originally, woven fine, and fr. sub under + tela a web, fr. texere to 1. Sly in design; artful; cunning; insinuating; subtile; -- applied to persons; as, a subtle foe. "A subtle
  • WILLOWER
    A willow. See Willow, n., 2.
  • WINDFLOWER
    The anemone; -- so called because formerly supposed to open only when the wind was blowing. See Anemone.
  • RE-TURN
    To turn again.
  • EMBOWER
    To lodge or rest in a bower. "In their wide boughs embow'ring. " Spenser. (more info) -- v. i.
  • FLOWERY-KIRTLED
    Dressed with garlands of flowers. Milton.
  • CAULIFLOWER
    An annual variety of Brassica oleracea, or cabbage of which the cluster of young flower stalks and buds is eaten as a vegetable. 2. The edible head or "curd" of a caulifower plant. (more info) caulis, and by E. flower; F. chou cabbage is fr. L.
  • SUBPENTANGULAR
    Nearly or approximately pentangular; almost pentangular.
  • FLOWER-DE-LUCE
    A genus of perennial herbs with swordlike leaves and large three-petaled flowers often of very gay colors, but probably white in the plant first chosen for the royal French emblem. Note: There are nearly one hundred species, natives of the north
  • DISEMBOWERED
    Deprived of, or removed from, a bower. Bryant.
  • NOCTURNAL
    1. Of, pertaining to, done or occuring in, the night; as, nocturnal darkness, cries, expedition, etc.; -- opposed to Ant: diurnal. Dryden. 2. Having a habit of seeking food or moving about at night; as, nocturnal birds and insects.
  • EMBOWL
    To form like a bowl; to give a globular shape to. Sir P. Sidney.
  • SATURNISM
    Plumbum. Quain.
  • WALLOWER
    A lantern wheel; a trundle. (more info) 1. One who, or that which, wallows.

 

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