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Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

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13,702 words match “ERS”

TROSSERS n.
Trousers. [Obs.] Shak.
TROUSERS n.
A garment worn by men and boys, extending from the waist to the knee or to the ankle, and covering each leg separately. pants; used attrib. in the singular, as a trouser leg; see pant
TROWSERS n.
Same as Trousers.
TWEEZERS n.
Small pinchers used to pluck out hairs, and for other purposes.
UNCONTROVERSORY a.
Not involving controversy. [Obs.] Bp. Hall.
UNCONVERSION n.
The state of being unconverted; impenitence. [R.]
UNDERSAIL v.
To sail alongshore. [Obs.]
UNDERSAILED a.
Inadequately equipped with sails. [Obs.]
UNDERSATURATED a.
Not fully saturated; imperfectly saturated.
UNDERSAY v.
To say by way of derogation or contradiction. [Obs.] Spenser.
UNDERSCORE v.
To draw a mark or line under; to underline. J. Tucker.
UNDERSECRETARY n.
A secretary who is subordinate to the chief secretary; an assistant secretary; as, an undersecretary of the Treasury.
UNDERSELL v.
To sell the same articles at a lower price than; to sell cheaper than.
UNDERSERVANT n.
An inferior servant.
UNDERSET v. 2 definitions
To prop or support. Bacon.
UNDERSETTER n.
One who, or that which, undersets or supports; a prop; a support; a pedestal.
UNDERSETTING n.
Something set or built under as a support; a pedestal. Sir H. Wotton.
UNDERSHAPEN a.
Under the usual shape or size; small; dwarfish. [Poetic] His dwarf, a vicious undershapen thing. Tennyson.
UNDERSHERIFF n.
A sheriff's deputy.
UNDERSHERIFFRY n.
Undershrievalty. [Obs.]
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