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Word Meanings - DEBT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

An action at law to recover a certain specified sum of money alleged to be due. Burrill. Bond debt, Book debt, etc. See under Bond, Book, etc. -- Debt of nature, death. (more info) p. p. of debere to owe, prop., to have on loan; de- + habere to

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An action at law to recover a certain specified sum of money alleged to be due. Burrill. Bond debt, Book debt, etc. See under Bond, Book, etc. -- Debt of nature, death. (more info) p. p. of debere to owe, prop., to have on loan; de- + habere to have. 1. That which is due from one person to another, whether money, goods, or services; that which one person is bound to pay to another, or to perform for his benefit; thing owed; obligation; liability. Your son, my lord, has paid a soldier's debt. Shak. When you run in debt, you give to another power over your liberty. Franklin. 2. A duty neglected or violated; a fault; a sin; a trespass. "Forgive us our debts." Matt. vi. 12.

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  • 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.
  • SPECIFICNESS
    The quality or state of being specific.
  • 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.
  • UNDERDOLVEN
    p. p. of Underdelve.
  • UNDERSOIL
    The soil beneath the surface; understratum; subsoil.
  • DEATHLIKE
    1. Resembling death. A deathlike slumber, and a dead repose. Pope. 2. Deadly. "Deathlike dragons." Shak.
  • 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.
  • UNDERSAY
    To say by way of derogation or contradiction. Spenser.
  • UNDERGROUND INSURANCE
    Wildcat insurance.
  • UNDERTAPSTER
    Assistant to a tapster.
  • 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.
  • UNDERCAST
    To cast under or beneath.
  • PLUNDERER
    One who plunders or pillages.
  • RECOVER
    To cover again. Sir W. Scott.
  • DEATHLY
    Deadly; fatal; mortal; destructive.
  • 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.
  • ASCERTAINMENT
    The act of ascertaining; a reducing to certainty; a finding out by investigation; discovery. The positive ascertainment of its limits. Burke.

 

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