Word Meanings - GURGE - Book Publishers vocabulary database
A whirlpool. The plain, wherein a black bituminous gurge Boils out from under ground. Milton.
Related words: (words related to GURGE)
- 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. - WHEREIN
1. In which; in which place, thing, time, respect, or the like; -- used relatively. Her clothes wherein she was clad. Chaucer. There are times wherein a man ought to be cautious as well as innocent. Swift. 2. In what; -- used interrogatively. Yet - UNDERSAY
To say by way of derogation or contradiction. Spenser. - UNDERGROUND INSURANCE
Wildcat insurance. - GROUNDWORK
That which forms the foundation or support of anything; the basis; the essential or fundamental part; first principle. Dryden. - GURGE
A whirlpool. The plain, wherein a black bituminous gurge Boils out from under ground. Milton. - BLACK LETTER
The old English or Gothic letter, in which the Early English manuscripts were written, and the first English books were printed. It was conspicuous for its blackness. See Type. - UNDERTAPSTER
Assistant to a tapster. - BLACKEN
Etym: 1. To make or render black. While the long funerals blacken all the way. Pope 2. To make dark; to darken; to cloud. "Blackened the whole heavens." South. 3. To defame; to sully, as reputation; to make infamous; as, vice blackens - GROUNDEN
p. p. of Grind. Chaucer. - UNDERDELVE
To delve under. - MISGROUND
To found erroneously. "Misgrounded conceit." Bp. Hall. - PLUNDERER
One who plunders or pillages. - FRANKFORT BLACK
. A black pigment used in copperplate printing, prepared by burning vine twigs, the lees of wine, etc. McElrath. - TEN-POUNDER
A large oceanic fish found in the tropical parts of all the oceans. It is used chiefly for bait. - DUNDERHEAD
A dunce; a numskull; a blockhead. Beau. & Fl.