Word Meanings - UNDERTENANT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The tenant of a tenant; one who holds lands or tenements of a tenant or lessee.

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• LANDSTHING
  See BELOW
• LANDSKIP
  A landscape. Straight my eye hath caught new pleasures, Whilst the landskip round it measures. Milton.
• LANDSMAN
  A sailor on his first voyage. (more info) 1. One who lives on the land; -- opposed to seaman.
• TENANT
  One who holds or possesses lands, or other real estate, by any kind of right, whether in fee simple, in common, in severalty, for life, for years, or at will; also, one who has the occupation or temporary possession of lands or tenements the title
• LANDSCAPE
  land land + -schap, equiv. to E. -schip; akin to G. landschaft, Sw. 1. A portion of land or territory which the eye can comprehend in a single view, including all the objects it contains. 2. A picture representing a scene by land or sea, actual
• TENANTLESS
  Having no tenants; unoccupied; as, a tenantless mansion. Shak.
• LANDSTREIGHT
  A narrow strip of land.
• TENANT SAW
  See TENON
• LANDSTURM
  That part of the reserve force in Germany which is called out last.
• LESSEE
  The person to whom a lease is given, or who takes an estate by lease. Blackstone.
• TENANTRY
  1. The body of tenants; as, the tenantry of a manor or a kingdom. 2. Tenancy. Ridley.
• TENANTABLE
  Fit to be rented; in a condition suitable for a tenant. -- Ten"ant*a*ble*ness, n.
• LANDSTORM
  See VARNPLIGTIGE
• LANDSLIP; LANDSLIDE
  1. The slipping down of a mass of land from a mountain, hill, etc. 2. The land which slips down.
• LANDSCAPIST
  A painter of landscapes.
• TER-TENANT
  See TERRE-TENANT
• COWPER'S GLANDS
  Two small glands discharging into the male urethra.
• SUBLIEUTENANT
  An inferior or second lieutenant; in the British service, a commissioned officer of the lowest rank.
• RELESSEE
  See RELEASEE
• TERRE-TENANT
  One who has the actual possession of land; the occupant.
• UNDERTENANT
  The tenant of a tenant; one who holds lands or tenements of a tenant or lessee.
• LIEUTENANT
  of tenir to hold, L. tenere. See Lieu, and Tenant, and cf. Locum 1. An officer who supplies the place of a superior in his absence; a representative of, or substitute for, another in the performance of any duty. The lawful magistrate, who is the
• LIEUTENANT GENERAL
  . An army officer in rank next below a general and next above a major general. Note: In the United States, before the civil war, this rank had been conferred only on George Washington and on Winfield Scott. In 1864 it was revived by Congress and
• LIEUTENANTRY
  See LIEUTENANCY
• COTENANT
  A tenant in common, or a joint tenant.
• HOLLANDS
  See HOLLAND (more info) 1. Gin made in Holland. 2. pl.