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A pawnbroker. [Slang] Thackeray. My uncle, a pawnbroker. [Slang] - - Uncle Sam, a humorous appellation given to the United States Government. See Uncle Sam, in Dictionary of Noted Names in Fiction.

ally impure; needing ritual cleansing. He that toucheth the dead body of any man shall be unclean seven days. Num. xix. 11.

Incapable of being cleansed or cleaned.

Same as Unclinch.

The office or position of an uncle. Lamb.

To unwind, unfold, or untie; hence, to undo; to ruin. Shak.

stone. It has eight scepters or staves radiating from a common center. Called also escarbuncle.

Set with carbuncles. He has deserves it [armor], were it carbuncled Like holy Phabus' car. Shak.

A small fleshy prominence or excrescence; especially the small, reddish body, the caruncula lacrymalis, in the inner angle of the eye.

See Carbuncle, 3.

A superficial, inflammatory tumor, suppurating with a central core; a boil.

father's or mother's uncle.

A band of nervous or fibrous matter connecting different parts of the brain; as, the peduncles of the cerebellum; the peduncles of the pineal gland.

Having a peduncle; supported on a peduncle; pedunculate.

A little or petty sect. [R.] "Some new sect or sectiuncle." J. Martineau.

The tube which runs through the partitions of chambered cephalopod shells.

Having a siphuncle; siphunculated.

A small vibration. [R.] Chambers.

e or call after, to name like and reference to. Our eldest son was named George after his uncle. Goldsmith.

om the nautili in having the margins of the septa very much lobed or plaited, and the siphuncle dorsal. Also called serpent stone, snake stone, and cornu Ammonis.