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Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

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526 words match “BELOW”

UNDERGROUND a.
Being below the surface of the ground; as, an underground story or apartment.
UNDERHEAVE v.
To heave or lift from below. [Obs.] Wyclif.
UNDERJOIN v.
To join below or beneath; to subjoin. Wyclif.
UNDERLET v.
To let below the value. All my farms were underlet. Smollett.
UNDERLIE v.
To lie below or under.
UNDERLINE v.
To mark a line below, as words; to underscore.
UNDERLOAD SWITCH n.
A switch which opens a circuit when the current falls below a certain predetermined value, used to protect certain types of motors from running at excessive speed upon decrease of load.
UNDERNEATH adv. 2 definitions
Beneath; below; in a lower place; under; as, a channel underneath the soil. Or sullen mole, that runneth underneath. Milton.
UNDERPOISE v.
To weigh, estimate, or rate below desert; to undervalue. [R.] Marston.
UNDERPRAISE v.
To praise below desert.
UNDERRATE v.
To rate too low; to rate below the value; to undervalue. Burke.
UNDERRECKON v.
To reckon below what is right or proper; to underrate. Bp. Hall.
UNDERSLUNG; UNDERHUNG a.
mobile body, suspended from the springs in such a manner that the frame of the chassis is below the axles, the object being to lower the center of gravity of the car.
UNDERSTATEMENT n.
derstating, or the condition of being understated; that which is understated; a statement below the truth.
UNDERVALUE v.
To value, rate, or estimate below the real worth; to depreciate.
UNDERWORLD n.
The portion of the world which is below the horizon; the opposite side of the world; the antipodes. [R.] Fresh as the first beam glittering on a sail, That brings our friends up from the underworld. Tennyson.
UNIVERSAL a.
the Note under Catholic, a., 1. -- Universal coupling. (Mach.) Same as Universal joint, below. -- Universal dial, a dial by which the hour may be found in any part of the world, or under any elevation of the pole. -- Universal instrument (Astron.), a species of altitude and azimuth instrument, the peculiarity of wh…
UP-OVER a.
Designating a method of shaft excavation by drifting to a point below, and then raising instead of sinking.
UPRISE v.
To rise; to get up; to appear from below the horizon. "Uprose the sun." Cowley. Uprose the virgin with the morning light. Pope.
URCEOLATE; URCELATE a.
Shaped like a pitcher or urn; swelling below, and contrasted at the orifice, as a calyx or corolla.
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