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Word Meanings - PENNYWORT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A European trailing herb with roundish, reniform leaves. It is often cultivated in hanging baskets. March, or Water, pennywort. See under March.

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  • UNDERDOER
    One who underdoes; a shirk.
  • UNDERBRED
    Not thoroughly bred; ill-bred; as, an underbred fellow. Goldsmith.
  • WATER-BEARER
    The constellation Aquarius.
  • UNDERSECRETARY
    A secretary who is subordinate to the chief secretary; an assistant secretary; as, an undersecretary of the Treasury.
  • HANGNAIL
    A small piece or silver of skin which hangs loose, near the root of finger nail. Holloway.
  • 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.
  • WATERWORT
    Any plant of the natural order Elatineæ, consisting of two genera , mostly small annual herbs growing in the edges of ponds. Some have a peppery or acrid taste.
  • UNDERSOIL
    The soil beneath the surface; understratum; subsoil.
  • UNDERDOLVEN
    p. p. of Underdelve.
  • WATER SHREW
    Any one of several species of shrews having fringed feet and capable of swimming actively. The two common European species are the best known. The most common American water shrew, or marsh shrew , is rarely seen, owing to its nocturnal habits.
  • 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.
  • WATER-TIGHT
    So tight as to retain, or not to admit, water; not leaky.
  • WATER RAT
    The water vole. See under Vole. The muskrat. The beaver rat. See under Beaver. 2. A thief on the water; a pirate.
  • MARCHER
    One who marches.
  • UNDERCREST
    To support as a crest; to bear. Shak.
  • UNDERSAY
    To say by way of derogation or contradiction. Spenser.
  • UNDERGROUND INSURANCE
    Wildcat insurance.
  • WATER CRAKE
    The dipper. The spotted crake . See Illust. of Crake. The swamp hen, or crake, of Australia.
  • ON-HANGER
    A hanger-on.
  • NOMARCH
    The chief magistrate of a nome or nomarchy.
  • PLUNDERER
    One who plunders or pillages.

 

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