(prep.) To; -- now used only in antiquated, formal, or scriptural style. See To.

(prep.) Until; till.

(conj.) Until; till.

(n.) A tree (Antiaris toxicaria) of the Breadfruit family, common in the forests of Java and the neighboring islands. Its secretions are poisonous, and it has been fabulously reported that the atmosphere about it is deleterious. Called also bohun upas.

(n.) A virulent poison used in Java and the adjacent islands for poisoning arrows. One kind, upas antiar, is, derived from upas tree (Antiaris toxicaria). Upas tieute is prepared from a climbing plant (Strychnos Tieute).

(prep.) On; -- used in all the senses of that word, with which it is interchangeable.

(n.) See Trona.

(a.) A very soluble crystalline body which is the chief constituent of the urine in mammals and some other animals. It is also present in small quantity in blood, serous fluids, lymph, the liver, etc.

(v. t.) To press; to push; to drive; to impel; to force onward.

(v. t.) To press the mind or will of; to ply with motives, arguments, persuasion, or importunity.

(v. t.) To provoke; to exasperate.

(v. t.) To press hard upon; to follow closely

(v. t.) To present in an urgent manner; to press upon attention; to insist upon; as, to urge an argument; to urge the necessity of a case.

(v. t.) To treat with forcible means; to take severe or violent measures with; as, to urge an ore with intense heat.

(v. i.) To press onward or forward.

(v. i.) To be pressing in argument; to insist; to persist.

(a.) Of or pertaining to urine; obtained from urine; as, uric acid.

(n.) A part or decoration of the breastplate of the high priest among the ancient Jews, by which Jehovah revealed his will on certain occasions. Its nature has been the subject of conflicting conjectures.

() A combining form fr. Gr. o'y^ron, urine.

() A combining form from Gr. o'yra`, the tail, the caudal extremity.

(n.) A very large, powerful, and savage extinct bovine animal (Bos urus / primigenius) anciently abundant in Europe. It appears to have still existed in the time of Julius Caesar. It had very large horns, and was hardly capable of domestication. Called also, ur, ure, and tur.

(n.) The crab-eating ichneumon (Herpestes urva), native of India. The fur is black, annulated with white at the tip of each hair, and a white streak extends from the mouth to the shoulder.

(imp. & p. p.) of Use

(n.) One who uses.

(n.) Enjoyment of property; use.

(n.) The posterior pigmented layer of the iris; -- sometimes applied to the whole iris together with the choroid coat.

(a.) Pertaining to, or obtained from, grapes; specifically, designating an organic acid, C7H8O3 (also called pyrotritartaric acid), obtained as a white crystalline substance by the decomposition of tartaric and pyrotartaric acids.

(v. t.) To reverse, as what has been done; to annul; to bring to naught.

(v. t.) To loose; to open; to take to piece; to unfasten; to untie; hence, to unravel; to solve; as, to undo a knot; to undo a puzzling question; to undo a riddle.

(v. t.) To bring to poverty; to impoverish; to ruin, as in reputation, morals, hopes, or the like; as, many are undone by unavoidable losses, but more undo themselves by vices and dissipation, or by indolence.

(n.) The two-toed sloth (Cholopus didactylus), native of South America. It is about two feet long. Its color is a uniform grayish brown, sometimes with a reddish tint.

(v. t.) To cause not to be; to cause to be another.

(a.) Unknown; strange, or foreign; unusual, or surprising; distant in manner; reserved.

(adv.) In a high degree; to a great extent; greatly; very.

(n.) A strange thing or person.

(pl. ) of Uncus

(a.) Waving or wavy; -- applied to ordinaries, or division lines.

() A prefix signifying one, once; as in uniaxial, unicellular.

(n.) The boss of a shield, at or near the middle, and usually projecting, sometimes in a sharp spike.

(n.) A boss, or rounded elevation, or a corresponding depression, in a palate, disk, or membrane; as, the umbo in the integument of the larvae of echinoderms or in the tympanic membrane of the ear.

(n.) One of the lateral prominence just above the hinge of a bivalve shell.

(n.) A shade for the face, projecting from the bonnet.

(v. t.) To make ugly.

(n.) In Shetland and Orkney, a freehold; property held by udal, or allodial, right.

(a.) Allodial; -- a term used in Finland, Shetland, and Orkney. See Allodial.

(superl.) Offensive to the sight; contrary to beauty; being of disagreeable or loathsome aspect; unsightly; repulsive; deformed.

(superl.) Ill-natured; crossgrained; quarrelsome; as, an ugly temper; to feel ugly.

(superl.) Unpleasant; disagreeable; likely to cause trouble or loss; as, an ugly rumor; an ugly customer.

(n.) The postaxial bone of the forearm, or branchium, corresponding to the fibula of the hind limb. See Radius.

(n.) An ell; also, a yard.