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See Tourmaline.

The quality or state of being ugly.

Absence of courtliness; rudeness; rusticity. Addison.

To mark a line below, as words; to underscore.

The state or quality of being ungainly; awkwardness.

Unkindness. Tennyson.

The quality or state of being unlikely.

To take the lining out of; hence, to empty; as, to unline one's purse.

Quality or state unruly.

The quality or state of being unseemly; unbecomingness. Udall.

Unseasonableness.

A line or track leading from the provinces toward the metropolis or a principal terminus; the track upon which up-trains run. See Up-train. [Eng.]

Of or pertaining to St. Ursula, or the order of Ursulines; as, the Ursuline nuns.

A yellowish translucent substance, almost odorless and tasteless, obtained as a residue in the purification of crude petroleum, and consisting essentially of a mixture of several of the higher members of the paraffin series. It is used as an unguent, and for various purposes in the arts. See the Note under Petrolatum.…

Straight; rectilinear. [R.]

A dyestuff of the induline group, made from aniline, and used as a substitute for indigo in dyeing wool and silk a violet-blue or a gray-blue color.

Mauve aniline. See under Mauve.

Of or pertaining to the yolk of eggs; as, the vitelline membrane, a smooth, transparent membrane surrounding the vitellus.

Of or pertaining to a calf or veal.

A line, within a rotating fluid, whose tangent at every point is the instantaneous axis of rotation as that point of the fluid.