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398 words match “UNCO”

UNCORK v.
To draw the cork from; as, to uncork a bottle.
UNCORRECT a.
Incorrect. Dryden.
UNCORRIGIBLE a.
Incorrigible; not capable of correction. [Obs.]
UNCORRUPT a.
Incorrupt.
UNCORRUPTIBLE a.
Incorruptible. "The glory of the uncorruptible God." Rom. i. 23.
UNCORRUPTION n.
Incorruption.
UNCOUPLE v. 2 definitions
loose, as dogs, from their couples; also, to set loose; to disconnect; to disjoin; as, to uncouple railroad cars.
UNCOURTLINESS n.
Absence of courtliness; rudeness; rusticity. Addison.
UNCOUS a.
Hooklike; hooked. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.
UNCOUTH a. 3 definitions
Unknown. [Obs.] "This uncouth errand." Milton. To leave the good that I had in hand, In hope of better that was uncouth. Spenser.
UNCOVENABLE a.
Not covenable; inconvenient. [Obs.] Wyclif (1 Tim. iv. 7).
UNCOVENANTED a. 3 definitions
he Stuarts. In Scotland a few fanatical nonjurors may have grudged their allegiance to an uncovenanted king. Sir T. E. May.
UNCOVER v. 5 definitions
To take the cover from; to divest of covering; as, to uncover a box, bed, house, or the like; to uncover one's body.
UNCOWL v.
To divest or deprive of a cowl. Pope.
ADUNCOUS a.
Curved inwards; hooked.
BUNCOMBE; BUNKUM n.
anada sheriff was bunkum . . . slavery speeches are all bunkum. Haliburton. To speak for Buncombe, to speak for mere show, or popularly.
GUNCOTTON n.
See under Gun.
JUNCO n.
Any bird of the genus Junco, which includes several species of North American finches; -- called also snowbird, or blue snowbird.
JUNCOUS a.
Full of rushes: resembling rushes; juncaceous. [R.] Johnson.
OBUNCOUS a.
Hooked or crooked in an extreme degree. Maunder.
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