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.
• 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
• LEASE
  To gather what harvesters have left behind; to glean. Dryden.
• 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