Word Meanings - UNDERSTAIRS - Book Publishers vocabulary database
The basement or cellar.
Related words: (words related to UNDERSTAIRS)
- CELLARIST
See CELLARER - BASEMENT
The outer wall of the ground story of a building, or of a part of that story, when treated as a distinct substructure. ( See Base, n., 3 .) Hence: The rooms of a ground floor, collectively. Basement membrane , a delicate membrane composed of a - CELLAR
A room or rooms under a building, and usually below the surface of the ground, where provisions and other stores are kept. - CELLARAGE
1. The space or storerooms of a cellar; a cellar. Sir W. Scott. You hear this fellow in the cellarage. Shak. 2. Chare for storage in a cellar. - CELLARET
A receptacle, as in a dining room, for a few bottles of wine or liquor, made in the form of a chest or coffer, or a deep drawer in a sideboard, and usually lined with metal. - CELLARER
A steward or butler of a monastery or chapter; one who has charge of procuring and keeping the provisions. - OCELLARY
Of or pertaining to ocelli. - ABASEMENT
The act of abasing, humbling, or bringing low; the state of being abased or humbled; humiliation. - EMBASEMENT
Act of bringing down; depravation; deterioration. South. - SUBCELLAR
A cellar beneath another story wholly or partly underground; usually, a cellar under a cellar. - CYCLONE CELLAR; CYCLONE PIT
A cellar or excavation used for refuge from a cyclone, or tornado. - PROCELLARIAN
One of a family of oceanic birds including the petrels, fulmars, and shearwaters. They are often seen in great abundance in stormy weather. - CANCELLAREAN
Cancellarean. - DEBASEMENT
The act of debasing or the state of being debased. Milton. - SALTCELLAR
Formerly a large vessel, now a small vessel of glass or other material, used for holding salt on the table. - SELF-ABASEMENT
1. Degradation of one's self by one's own act. 2. Humiliation or abasement proceeding from consciousness of inferiority, guilt, or shame. - PEDICELLARIA
A peculiar forcepslike organ which occurs in large numbers upon starfishes and echini. Those of starfishes have two movable jaws, or blades, and are usually nearly, or quite, sessile; those of echini usually have three jaws and a pedicel.