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Uchees
A tribe of North American Indians belonging to the Creek confederation.
Ulnare
One of the bones or cartilages of the carpus, which articulates with the ulna and corresponds to the cuneiform in man.
Ulterior
Ulterior side or part.
Umbellet
A small or partial umbel; an umbellule.
Unanswerable
Not answerable; irrefutable; conclusive; decisive; .
Unarmed
Not armed or armored; having no arms or weapons.
unartistic
Inartistic.
Unavoidable
Not avoidable; incapable of being shunned or prevented; inevitable; necessary; .
Unbereaven
Unbereft.
Unbreast
To disclose, or lay open; to unbosom.
Uncinus
One of the peculiar minute chitinous hooks found in large numbers in the tori of tubicolous annelids belonging to the Uncinata.
Uncomely
Not comely.
Unconfidence
Absence of confidence; uncertainty; doubt.
Uncontinent
Not continent; incontinent.
Uncouple
To roam at liberty.
Unctious
Unctuous.
Unctuous
Of the nature or quality of an unguent or ointment; fatty; oily; greasy.
Uncurrent
Not current. Specifically: Not passing in common payment; not receivable at par or full value; .
Uncuth
Unknown; strange.
Undeniably
In an undeniable manner.
Under-arm
Done (as bowling) with the arm not raised above the elbow, that is, not swung far out from the body; underhand. Cf. and .
Undercry
To cry aloud.
Underdrain
To drain by forming an underdrain or underdrains in; .
Underestimate
To set too low a value on; to estimate below the truth.
Underestimate
The act of underestimating; too low an estimate.
Underhanded
Underhand; clandestine.
Underministry
A subordinate or inferior ministry.
Underplot
A series of events in a play, proceeding collaterally with the main story, and subservient to it.
Undersized
Of a size less than is common.
Undertake
To take upon one's self; to engage in; to enter upon; to take in hand; to begin to perform; to set about; to attempt.
Undeserve
To fail to deserve.
Undirectly
Indirectly.
Undomesticate
To make wild or roving.
Unembarrassed
Not embarrassed.
Unequivocal
Not equivocal; not doubtful; not ambiguous; evident; sincere; plain;
Unguard
To deprive of a guard; to leave unprotected.
Unhappied
Made unhappy.
Unharness
To strip of harness; to loose from harness or gear; .
Unheart
To cause to lose heart; to dishearten.
Unhelmed
Divested or deprived of the helm or helmet.
Uniclinal
See .
Uniformitarian
One who accepts uniformitarianism, or the uniformitarian doctrine.
Universalness
The quality or state of being universal; universality.
Unjustice
Want of justice; injustice.
Unked
Odd; strange; ugly; old; uncouth.
Unlaw
Any transgression or offense against the law.
Unorderly
Disorderly.
Unordinate
Disorderly; irregular; inordinate.
Unpaint
To remove the paint from; to efface, as a painting.
Unpalped
Destitute of a palp.
Unpeeled
Thoroughly stripped; pillaged.
Unperfection
Want of perfection; imperfection.
Unpitied
Not pitied.
Unpraise
To withhold praise from; to deprive of praise.
Unprotestantize
To render other than Protestant; to cause to change from Protestantism to some other form of religion; to deprive of some Protestant feature or characteristic.
Unpure
Not pure; impure.
Unrepentance
Impenitence.
Unresistance
Nonresistance; passive submission; irresistance.
Unrivet
To take out, or loose, the rivets of; .
Unshakable
Not capable of being shaken; firm; fixed.
Unspirit
To dispirit.
Untraded
Not dealt with in trade; not visited for purposes of trade.
Unwonted
Not wonted; unaccustomed; unused; not made familiar by practice; .
Unworship
Lack of worship or respect; dishonor.
Upgrow
To grow up.
Uplift
A raising or upheaval of strata so as to disturb their regularity and uniformity, and to occasion folds, dislocations, and the like.
Uppent
A Pent up; confined.
Upper
Being further up, literally or figuratively; higher in place, position, rank, dignity, or the like; superior; .
Uprighteously
In an upright or just manner.
Upshoot
To shoot upward.
Upsodown
Upside down.
Upstart
One who has risen suddenly, as from low life to wealth, power, or honor; a parvenu.
Urachus
A cord or band of fibrous tissue extending from the bladder to the umbilicus.
Urali
See .
Uraniscoplasty
The process of forming an artificial palate.
Ureide
Any one of the many complex derivatives of urea; thus, hydantoin, and, in an extended dense, guanidine, caffeine, et., are ureides.
Ureter
The duct which conveys the urine from the kidney to the bladder or cloaca. There are two ureters, one for each kidney.
Ureteritis
Inflammation of the ureter.
Us
The persons speaking, regarded as an object; ourselves; -- the objective case of . See .
Ushership
The office of an usher; usherdom.
Usual
Such as is in common use; such as occurs in ordinary practice, or in the ordinary course of events; customary; ordinary; habitual; common.
Uvulatome
An instrument for removing the uvula.