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A lease by a tenant or lessee to another person; an underlease. Bouvier.

A coarse fish of India, used in making a breakfast relish called burtah.

A thin, elastic, uniformly light-colored tobacco leaf, raised in Sumatra and extensively used for cigar wrappers.

To please exceedingly. [Obs.] B. Jonson.

Situated over or above a trochlea or trochlear surface; -- applied esp. to one of the subdivisions of the trigeminal nerve.

A striking and vivid representation; a picture.

Same as Tableau, n., 2.

A short fly that falls too far out to be handled by an infielder and too close in to be caught by an outfielder. [Cant]

Producing three leaves; as, three-leaved nightshade.

One who complies with prevailing opinions, whatever they may be; a timeserver. Timepleasers, flatterers, foes to nobleness. Shak.

Ton miles collectively; esp., the total ton miles performed by a railroad in a given period.

A pulley, or a structure resembling a pulley; as, the trochlea, or pulleylike end, of the humerus, which articulates with the ulna; or the trochlea, or fibrous ring, in the upper part of the orbit, through which the superior oblique, or trochlear, muscle of the eye passes.

Shaped like, or resembling, a pulley; pertaining to, or connected with, a trochlea; as, a trochlear articular surface; the trochlear muscle of the eye. Trochlear nerve. See Pathetic nerve, under Pathetic.

Pertaining to, or connected with, a trochlea; trochlear; as, the trochleary, or trochlear, nerve.

See Jeffersonia.

Not clean; foul; dirty; filthy.

Incapable of being cleansed or cleaned.

A prolific sort of apple, good for cider. [Obs.] Mortimer.

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.

Possessed of but a single nucleus; as, a uninucleated cell.