Word Meanings - UNDERLEASE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A lease granted by a tenant or lessee; especially, a lease granted by one who is himself a lessee for years, for any fewer or less number of years than he himself holds; a sublease. Burrill.

Related words: (words related to UNDERLEASE)

• NUMBERFUL
  Numerous.
• LEASE
  To gather what harvesters have left behind; to glean. Dryden.
• TENANT
  One who holds or possesses lands, or other real estate, by any kind of right, whether in fee simple, in common, in severalty, for life, for years, or at will; also, one who has the occupation or temporary possession of lands or tenements the title
• LEASEHOLD
  Held by lease.
• TENANTLESS
  Having no tenants; unoccupied; as, a tenantless mansion. Shak.
• TENANT SAW
  See TENON
• GRANT
  yield, LL. creantare to promise, assure, for credentare to make believe, fr. L. credens, p. pr. of credere to believe. See 1. To give over; to make conveyance of; to give the possession or title of; to convey; -- usually in answer to petition.
• HIMSELF
  1. An emphasized form of the third person masculine pronoun; -- used as a subject usually with he; as, he himself will bear the blame; used alone in the predicate, either in the nominative or objective case; as, it is himself who saved himself.
• NUMBERLESS
  Innumerable; countless.
• ESPECIALLY
  In an especial manner; chiefly; particularly; peculiarly; in an uncommon degree.
• HIMSELF; HIMSELVE; HIMSELVEN
  Themselves. See Hemself. Chaucer.
• TENANTRY
  1. The body of tenants; as, the tenantry of a manor or a kingdom. 2. Tenancy. Ridley.
• LESSEE
  The person to whom a lease is given, or who takes an estate by lease. Blackstone.
• NUMBER
  The distinction of objects, as one, or more than one (in some languages, as one, or two, or more than two), expressed by a difference in the form of a word; thus, the singular number and the plural number are the names of the forms of
• NUMBERS
  of Number. The fourth book of the Pentateuch, containing the census of the Hebrews.
• GRANTEE
  The person to whom a grant or conveyance is made. His grace will not survive the poor grantee he despises. Burke.
• TENANTABLE
  Fit to be rented; in a condition suitable for a tenant. -- Ten"ant*a*ble*ness, n.
• NUMBERER
  One who numbers.
• GRANTABLE
  Capable of being granted.
• LEASEHOLDER
  A tenant under a lease. -- Lease"hold`ing, a. & n.
• TER-TENANT
  See TERRE-TENANT
• RELEASE
  To lease again; to grant a new lease of; to let back.
• IMMIGRANT
  One who immigrates; one who comes to a country for the purpose of permanent residence; -- correlative of emigrant. Syn. -- See Emigrant.
• FLAGRANT
  1. Flaming; inflamed; glowing; burning; ardent. The beadle's lash still flagrant on their back. Prior. A young man yet flagrant from the lash of the executioner or the beadle. De Quincey. Flagrant desires and affections. Hooker. 2. Actually in
• INTEGRANT
  Making part of a whole; necessary to constitute an entire thing; integral. Boyle. All these are integrant parts of the republic. Burke. Integrant parts, or particles, of bodies, those smaller particles into which a body may be reduced without loss
• SUBLIEUTENANT
  An inferior or second lieutenant; in the British service, a commissioned officer of the lowest rank.
• OVERPLEASE
  To please excessively.
• VAGRANTNESS
  State of being vagrant; vagrancy.
• RELESSEE
  See RELEASEE
• FRAGRANT
  fragrance: cf. OF. fragrant. Affecting the olfactory nerves agreeably; sweet of smell; odorous; having or emitting an agreeable perfume. Fragrant the fertile earth After soft showers. Milton. Syn. -- Sweet-smelling; odorous; odoriferous;
• PLEASER
  One who pleases or gratifies.
• TERRE-TENANT
  One who has the actual possession of land; the occupant.
• OUTNUMBER
  To exceed in number.
• UNDERTENANT
  The tenant of a tenant; one who holds lands or tenements of a tenant or lessee.
• LIEUTENANT
  of tenir to hold, L. tenere. See Lieu, and Tenant, and cf. Locum 1. An officer who supplies the place of a superior in his absence; a representative of, or substitute for, another in the performance of any duty. The lawful magistrate, who is the