Word Meanings - UNDERLETTER - Book Publishers vocabulary database
A tenant or lessee who grants a lease to another.
Related words: (words related to UNDERLETTER)
- ANOTHER-GUESS
Of another sort. It used to go in another-guess manner. Arbuthnot. - 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 - ANOTHER
1. One more, in addition to a former number; a second or additional one, similar in likeness or in effect. Another yet! -- a seventh! I 'll see no more. Shak. Would serve to scale another Hero's tower. Shak. 2. Not the same; different. He winks, - ANOTHER-GAINES
Of another kind. Sir P. Sidney. - LESSEE
The person to whom a lease is given, or who takes an estate by lease. Blackstone. - TENANTRY
1. The body of tenants; as, the tenantry of a manor or a kingdom. 2. Tenancy. Ridley. - TENANTABLE
Fit to be rented; in a condition suitable for a tenant. -- Ten"ant*a*ble*ness, n. - LEASEHOLDER
A tenant under a lease. -- Lease"hold`ing, a. & n. - LEASER
One who leases or gleans. Swift. - ANOTHER-GATES
Of another sort. "Another-gates adventure." Hudibras. - TER-TENANT
See TERRE-TENANT - RELEASE
To lease again; to grant a new lease of; to let back. - SUBLIEUTENANT
An inferior or second lieutenant; in the British service, a commissioned officer of the lowest rank. - OVERPLEASE
To please excessively. - RELESSEE
See RELEASEE - PLEASER
One who pleases or gratifies. - TERRE-TENANT
One who has the actual possession of land; the occupant. - 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 - TIMEPLEASER
One who complies with prevailing opinions, whatever they may be; a timeserver. Timepleasers, flatterers, foes to nobleness. Shak. - LIEUTENANT GENERAL
. An army officer in rank next below a general and next above a major general. Note: In the United States, before the civil war, this rank had been conferred only on George Washington and on Winfield Scott. In 1864 it was revived by Congress and - RELEASEMENT
The act of releasing, as from confinement or obligation. Milton. - MEN-PLEASER
One whose motive is to please men or the world, rather than God. Eph. vi. 6. - LIEUTENANTRY
See LIEUTENANCY