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To fill underneath; to stuff. [Obs.] He drank and well his girdle underpight. Chaucer.

n, or the like; as, the fingers are of unequal length; peers and commoners are unequal in rank.

ll uniform (Mil.), wearing the whole of the prescribed uniform, with ornaments, badges of rank, sash, side arms, etc. -- Uniform sword, an officer's sword of the regulation pattern prescribed for the army or navy.

temperature of greatest density (39.1º Fahr.) through one degree of the Fahrenheit scale. Rankine. -- Unit of illumination, the light of a sperm candle burning 120 grains per hour. Standard gas, burning at the rate of five cubic feet per hour, must have an illuminating power equal to that of fourteen such candles. --…

To deprive of the rank or position of a lord. Milton.

Deprived of the rank of a lord.

To degrade from the rank of a martyr. [Obs.] Fuller.

To deprive of a miter; to depose or degrade from the rank of a bishop. Milton.

To divest of the rank or authority of queen. Shak.

Absence of reverse; frankness; freedom of communication. T. Warton.

Being further up, literally or figuratively; higher in place, position, rank, dignity, or the like; superior; as, the upper lip; the upper side of a thing; the upper house of a legislature. The upper hand, the superiority; the advantage. See To have the upper hand, under Hand. Jowett (Thucyd.). -- Upper Bench (Eng. Hi…

Highest in place, position, rank, power, or the like; upmost; supreme. Whatever faction happens to be uppermost. Swift.

ce, an officer whose business it is to introduce strangers, or to walk before a person of rank. Also, one who escorts persons to seats in a church, theater, etc. "The ushers and the squires." Chaucer. These are the ushers of Marcius. Shak.

e valedictory of the graduating class at the annual commencement, usually the student who ranks first in scholarship.

y kind, as a hogshead, a barrel, a firkin, a bottle, a kettle, a cup, a bowl, etc. [They drank] out of these noble vessels. Chaucer.

the office or duties of a superior; designating an officer or an office that is second in rank or authority; as, vice president; vice agent; vice consul, etc. Vice admiral. Etym: [Cf. F. vice-amiral.] (a) An officer holding rank next below an admiral. By the existing laws, the rank of admiral and vice admiral in the Un…

View halloo, the shout uttered by a hunter upon seeing the fox break cover. -- View of frankpledge (Law), a court of record, held in a hundred, lordship, or manor, before the steward of the leet. Blackstone. -- View of premises (Law), the inspection by the jury of the place where a litigated transaction is said to h…

A nobleman of the fourth rank, next in order below an earl and next above a baron; also, his degree or title of nobility. See Peer, n., 3. [Eng.] Chaucer.

The quality, rank, or office of a viscount.

lumes. An odd volume of a set of books bears not the value of its proportion to the set. Franklin.