Word Meanings - UNDERLAYER - Book Publishers vocabulary database
A perpendicular shaft sunk to cut the lode at any required depth. Weale. (more info) 1. One who, or that which, underlays or is underlaid; a lower layer.
Related words: (words related to UNDERLAYER)
- SHAFTING
Shafts, collectivelly; a system of connected shafts for communicating motion. - LOWERMOST
Lowest. - LAYERING
A propagating by layers. Gardner. - DEPTH
The number of simple elements which an abstract conception or notion includes; the comprehension or content. (more info) 1. The quality of being deep; deepness; perpendicular measurement downward from the surface,or horizontal measurement backward - PERPENDICULAR
At right angles to a given line or surface; as, the line ad is perpendicular to the line bc. Perpendicular style , a name given to the latest variety of English Gothic architecture, which prevailed from the close of the 14th century to the early - LOWERY
Cloudy; gloomy; lowering; as, a lowery sky; lowery weather. - WHICHEVER; WHICHSOEVER
Whether one or another; whether one or the other; which; that one which; as, whichever road you take, it will lead you to town. - SHAFTMAN; SHAFTMENT
A measure of about six inches. - UNDERLAID
Laid or placed underneath; also, having something laid or lying underneath. - PERPENDICULARITY
The quality or state of being perpendicular. - REQUIRER
One who requires. - WHICH
the root of hwa who + lic body; hence properly, of what sort or kind; akin to OS. hwilik which, OFries. hwelik, D. welk, G. welch, OHG. welih, hwelih, Icel. hvilikr, Dan. & Sw. hvilken, Goth. hwileiks, 1. Of what sort or kind; what; what a; who. - LOWER
Compar. of Low, a. - DEPTHLESS
1. Having no depth; shallow. 2. Of measureless depth; unfathomable. In clouds of depthless night. Francis. - SHAFT
A rod at the end of a heddle. A solid or hollow cylinder or bar, having one or more journals on which it rests and revolves, and intended to carry one or more wheels or other revolving parts and to transmit power or motion; as, the shaft of a steam - REQUIREMENT
1. The act of requiring; demand; requisition. 2. That which is required; an imperative or authoritative command; an essential condition; something needed or necessary; a need. One of those who believe that they can fill up every requirement - SHAFTED
Having a shaft; -- applied to a spear when the head and the shaft are of different tinctures. (more info) 1. Furnished with a shaft, or with shafts; as, a shafted arch. - DEPTHEN
To deepen. - LOWER-CASE
Pertaining to, or kept in, the lower case; -- used to denote the small letters, in distinction from capitals and small capitals. See the Note under 1st Case, n., 3. - LOWERING
Dark and threatening; gloomy; sullen; as, lowering clouds or sky. - WILLOWER
A willow. See Willow, n., 2. - WINDFLOWER
The anemone; -- so called because formerly supposed to open only when the wind was blowing. See Anemone. - FLOWERY-KIRTLED
Dressed with garlands of flowers. Milton. - CAULIFLOWER
An annual variety of Brassica oleracea, or cabbage of which the cluster of young flower stalks and buds is eaten as a vegetable. 2. The edible head or "curd" of a caulifower plant. (more info) caulis, and by E. flower; F. chou cabbage is fr. L. - WAYLAYER
One who waylays another. - FLOWER-DE-LUCE
A genus of perennial herbs with swordlike leaves and large three-petaled flowers often of very gay colors, but probably white in the plant first chosen for the royal French emblem. Note: There are nearly one hundred species, natives of the north - WAY SHAFT
A rock shaft. - WALLOWER
A lantern wheel; a trundle. (more info) 1. One who, or that which, wallows. - FLOWERY
1. Full of flowers; abounding with blossoms. 2. Highly embellished with figurative language; florid; as, a flowery style. Milton. The flowery kingdom, China. - FLOWERLESSNESS
State of being without flowers. - TRACKLAYER
Any workman engaged in work involved in putting the track in place. -- Track"lay`ing, n. - MAYFLOWER
In England, the hawthorn; in New England, the trailing arbutus ; also, the blossom of these plants. - UNFLOWER
To strip of flowers. G. Fletcher. - FLOWERLESS
Having no flowers. Flowerless plants, plants which have no true flowers, and produce no seeds; cryptigamous plants. - ALLOWER
1. An approver or abettor. 2. One who allows or permits.