Word Meanings - CIRCLER - Book Publishers vocabulary database
A mean or inferior poet, perhaps from his habit of wandering around as a stroller; an itinerant poet. Also, a name given to the cyclic poets. See under Cyclic, a. B. Jonson.
Related words: (words related to CIRCLER)
- UNDERDOER
One who underdoes; a shirk. - UNDERBRED
Not thoroughly bred; ill-bred; as, an underbred fellow. Goldsmith. - UNDERSECRETARY
A secretary who is subordinate to the chief secretary; an assistant secretary; as, an undersecretary of the Treasury. - UNDERPLOT
1. A series of events in a play, proceeding collaterally with the main story, and subservient to it. Dryden. 2. A clandestine scheme; a trick. Addison. - UNDERNICENESS
A want of niceness; indelicacy; impropriety. - UNDERSOIL
The soil beneath the surface; understratum; subsoil. - UNDERDOLVEN
p. p. of Underdelve. - UNDERNIME
1. To receive; to perceive. He the savor undernom Which that the roses and the lilies cast. Chaucer. 2. To reprove; to reprehend. Piers Plowman. - UNDERPROP
To prop from beneath; to put a prop under; to support; to uphold. Underprop the head that bears the crown. Fenton. - UNDERCREST
To support as a crest; to bear. Shak. - UNDERGROUND INSURANCE
Wildcat insurance. - UNDERSAY
To say by way of derogation or contradiction. Spenser. - CYCLIC; CYCLICAL
Of or pertaining to a cycle or circle; moving in cycles; as, cyclical time. Coleridge. Cyclic chorus, the chorus which performed the songs and dances of the dithyrambic odes at Athens, dancing round the altar of Bacchus in a circle. -- Cyclic poets, - UNDERTAPSTER
Assistant to a tapster. - HABITURE
Habitude. - UNDERDELVE
To delve under. - UNDERSTOOD
imp. & p. p. of Understand. - UNDERDO
To do less than is requisite or proper; -- opposed to overdo. Grew. - UNDERCOAT
1. A coat worn under another; a light coat, as distinguished from an overcoat, or a greatcoat. 2. A growth of short hair or fur partially concealed by a longer growth; as, a dog's undercoat. - INFERIORLY
In an inferior manner, or on the inferior part. - INHABITATE
To inhabit. - PLUNDERER
One who plunders or pillages. - DUNDERHEAD
A dunce; a numskull; a blockhead. Beau. & Fl. - TEN-POUNDER
A large oceanic fish found in the tropical parts of all the oceans. It is used chiefly for bait. - COHABITER
A cohabitant. Hobbes. - INHABITATIVENESS
A tendency or propensity to permanent residence in a place or abode; love of home and country.