(v. t.) To strip of rigging; as, to unrig a ship.

(v. t.) To rip; to cut open.

(a.) Unsteady; fickle.

(v. t.) To recant or recall, as what has been said; to refract; to take back again; to make as if not said.

(a.) Not set; not fixed or appointed.

(v. t.) To undo, as something sewn, or something inclosed by sewing; to rip apart; to take out the stitches of.

(v. t.) To deprive of sex, or of qualities becoming to one's sex; esp., to make unfeminine in character, manners, duties, or the like; as, to unsex a woman.

(v. t.) To deprive of sinfulness, as a sin; to make sinless.

(v. t.) To loosen, as something interlaced or knotted; to disengage the parts of; as, to untie a knot.

(v. t.) To free from fastening or from restraint; to let loose; to unbind.

(v. t.) To resolve; to unfold; to clear.

(v. i.) To become untied or loosed.

(prep.) To; unto; towards; -- used of material objects.

(prep.) To; up to; till; before; -- used of time; as, he staid until evening; he will not come back until the end of the month.

(conj.) As far as; to the place or degree that; especially, up to the time that; till. See Till, conj.

(v. t.) To deprive of wit.

(n.) Want of wit or understanding; ignorance.

(v. t.) To fasten with a bar.

(v. t.) To remove the bar or bards of, as a gate; to under.

(n.) A fir pole of from four to seven inches diameter, and twenty to forty feet long, sometimes roughly hewn, used for scaffoldings, and sometimes for slight and common roofs, for which use it is split.

(v. t.) To hoard.

(comp.) Being further up, literally or figuratively; higher in place, position, rank, dignity, or the like; superior; as, the upper lip; the upper side of a thing; the upper house of a legislature.

(n.) The upper leather for a shoe; a vamp.

(v. i.) To run up; to ascend.

(v. t.) To set up; to put upright.

(v. t.) To thicken and shorten, as a heated piece of iron, by hammering on the end.

(v. t.) To shorten (a tire) in the process of resetting, originally by cutting it and hammering on the ends.

(v. t.) To overturn, overthrow, or overset; as, to upset a carriage; to upset an argument.

(v. t.) To disturb the self-possession of; to disorder the nerves of; to make ill; as, the fright upset her.

(v. i.) To become upset.

(a.) Set up; fixed; determined; -- used chiefly or only in the phrase upset price; that is, the price fixed upon as the minimum for property offered in a public sale, or, in an auction, the price at which property is set up or started by the auctioneer, and the lowest price at which it will be sold.

(n.) The act of upsetting, or the state of being upset; an overturn; as, the wagon had an upset.

(n.) The time during which the sun is up, or above the horizon; the time between sunrise and sunset.

(v. t.) To tie up.

(n.) See Curare.

(n.) Alt. of Urari

(n.) See Curare.

(n.) A salt of uric acid; as, sodium urate; ammonium urate.

(a.) Of or pertaining to urea; containing, or consisting of, urea; as, ureal deposits.

(imp. & p. p.) of Urge

(n.) One who urges.

(n.) In mammals, a fluid excretion from the kidneys; in birds and reptiles, a solid or semisolid excretion.

(v. i.) To urinate.

(n.) One of the segments of the abdomen or post-abdomen of arthropods.

(a.) Of or pertaining to an urn; effected by an urn or urns.

(n.) The bearded seal.

(n.) The black vulture (Catharista atrata). It ranges from the Southern United States to South America. See Vulture.

(n.) The act of using; mode of using or treating; treatment; conduct with respect to a person or a thing; as, good usage; ill usage; hard usage.

(n.) Manners; conduct; behavior.

(n.) Long-continued practice; customary mode of procedure; custom; habitual use; method.

(n.) Customary use or employment, as of a word or phrase in a particular sense or signification.

(n.) Experience.

(a.) Using; accustomed.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Use

(a.) Pertaining to, or designating, a complex acid obtained, as a yellow crystalline substance, from certain genera of lichens (Usnea, Parmelia, etc.).

(n.) Such as is in common use; such as occurs in ordinary practice, or in the ordinary course of events; customary; ordinary; habitual; common.

(v. i.) To practice usury; to charge unlawful interest.

(n.) Usury.

(v. t.) To seize, and hold in possession, by force, or without right; as, to usurp a throne; to usurp the prerogatives of the crown; to usurp power; to usurp the right of a patron is to oust or dispossess him.

(v. i.) To commit forcible seizure of place, power, functions, or the like, without right; to commit unjust encroachments; to be, or act as, a usurper.

(v. t.) A premium or increase paid, or stipulated to be paid, for a loan, as of money; interest.

(v. t.) The practice of taking interest.

(v. t.) Interest in excess of a legal rate charged to a borrower for the use of money.

(v. t.) Profitable; useful.

(n.) A conserve made of grapes.

(n.) See Euphroe.

(n.) The pendent fleshy lobe in the middle of the posterior border of the soft palate.

() imp. of Undo.

(a.) Not due; not yet owing; as, an undue debt, note, or bond.

(a.) Not right; not lawful or legal; improper; as, an undue proceeding.

(a.) Not agreeable to a rule or standard, or to duty; disproportioned; excessive; immoderate; inordinate; as, an undue attachment to forms; an undue rigor in the execution of law.

(v. t.) To make unsuitable or incompetent; to deprive of the strength, skill, or proper qualities for anything; to disable; to incapacitate; to disqualify; as, sickness unfits a man for labor; sin unfits us for the society of holy beings.

(a.) Not fit; unsuitable.

(v. t.) To loosen from a fastening; to detach from anything that holds; to unsettle; as, to unfix a bayonet; to unfix the mind or affections.

(v. t.) To make fluid; to dissolve.

(v. t.) To cause to be unbegotten or unborn, or as if unbegotten or unborn.

(n.) The siamang; -- called also ungka ape.

(v. t.) To deprive of divinity; to undeify.

(v. t.) To cause to recognize no god; to deprive of a god; to make atheistical.

(a.) Alt. of Ungotten

(n.) Ill luck; misfortune.

(v. t. & i.) To take off the hat of; to remove one's hat, especially as a mark of respect.

(v. t.) To cause to be one; to make into a unit; to unite; to view as one.

(v. t.) To put together so as to make one; to join, as two or more constituents, to form a whole; to combine; to connect; to join; to cause to adhere; as, to unite bricks by mortar; to unite iron bars by welding; to unite two armies.

(v. t.) Hence, to join by a legal or moral bond, as families by marriage, nations by treaty, men by opinions; to join in interest, affection, fellowship, or the like; to cause to agree; to harmonize; to associate; to attach.

(v. i.) To become one; to be cemented or consolidated; to combine, as by adhesion or mixture; to coalesce; to grow together.

(v. i.) To join in an act; to concur; to act in concert; as, all parties united in signing the petition.

(v. t.) United; joint; as, unite consent.

(a.) Odd; strange; ugly; old; uncouth.

(a.) Lonely; dreary; unkard.

(v. t.) To unfold.

(v. t.) To deprive of the authority or character of law.

(v. t.) To put beyond protection of law; to outlaw.

(v. t.) To impose a fine upon; to fine.

(n.) Any transgression or offense against the law.

(n.) A fine imposed as a penalty for violation of the law.

(v. t.) To untwist; as, to unlay a rope.

(v. t.) To deprive of the distinctive qualities of a human being, as reason, or the like.

(v. t.) To emasculate; to deprive of virility.

(v. t.) To deprive of the courage and fortitude of a man; to break or subdue the manly spirit in; to cause to despond; to dishearten; to make womanish.

(v. t.) To deprive of men; as, to unman a ship.

(v. t.) To release from confinement or restraint.

(v. t.) To remove the oil from.

(v. t.) To undo, take back, or annul, as a payment.

(v. t.) To remove a peg or pegs from; to unfasten; to open.

(v. t.) To release from a pen or from confinement.

(v. t.) To loose from pins; to remove the pins from; to unfasten; as, to unpin a frock; to unpin a frame.

(a.) Inapt; slow; dull.

(a.) Unsuitable; unfit; inappropriate.

(a.) Not accustomed and not likely; not disposed.

(v. t.) To disarm.

(v. i.) To puff off, or lay down, one's arms or armor.

(v. t.) To pour, or take, or let go, out of a bag or bags.

(v. t.) To remove a bar or bars from; to unbolt; to open; as, to unbar a gate.

(v. t.) To free from the restraint of anything that surrounds or incloses; to let loose; to open.

(v. t.) To raise or rouse from bed.

(a.) Alt. of Unbidden

(v. t.) To remove the turns of (a rope or cable) from the bits; as, to unbit a cable.

(v. t.) To unbend.

(v. t.) To remove from a box or boxes.

(v. t.) To divest of the traits of a boy.

(v. t.) To remove a cap or cover from.

(n.) A twelfth part, as of the Roman as; an ounce.

(n.) A numerical coefficient in any particular case of the binomial theorem.

(n.) A hook or claw.

(a.) Not cut; not separated or divided by cutting or otherwise; -- said especially of books, periodicals, and the like, when the leaves have not been separated by trimming in binding.

(a.) Not ground, or otherwise cut, into a certain shape; as, an uncut diamond.

(v. t.) To free from a dam, mound, or other obstruction.

(v. t.) To end up; to set on end, as a cask.

(prep.) Below or lower, in place or position, with the idea of being covered; lower than; beneath; -- opposed to over; as, he stood under a tree; the carriage is under cover; a cellar extends under the whole house.

(prep.) Denoting relation to some thing or person that is superior, weighs upon, oppresses, bows down, governs, directs, influences powerfully, or the like, in a relation of subjection, subordination, obligation, liability, or the like; as, to travel under a heavy load; to live under extreme oppression; to have fortitude under the evils of life; to have patience under pain, or under misfortunes; to behave like a Christian under reproaches and injuries; under the pains and penalties of the law; the condition under which one enters upon an office; under the necessity of obeying the laws; under vows of chastity.

(prep.) Denoting relation to something that exceeds in rank or degree, in number, size, weight, age, or the like; in a relation of the less to the greater, of inferiority, or of falling short.

(prep.) Denoting relation to something that comprehends or includes, that represents or designates, that furnishes a cover, pretext, pretense, or the like; as, he betrayed him under the guise of friendship; Morpheus is represented under the figure of a boy asleep.

(a.) Lower in position, intensity, rank, or degree; subject; subordinate; -- generally in composition with a noun, and written with or without the hyphen; as, an undercurrent; undertone; underdose; under-garment; underofficer; undersheriff.

(prep.) Less specifically, denoting the relation of being subject, of undergoing regard, treatment, or the like; as, a bill under discussion.

(adv.) In a lower, subject, or subordinate condition; in subjection; -- used chiefly in a few idiomatic phrases; as, to bring under, to reduce to subjection; to subdue; to keep under, to keep in subjection; to control; to go under, to be unsuccessful; to fail.

(a.) Going beyond others, or beyond due limit; extreme; fanatical; uncompromising; as, an ultra reformer; ultra measures.

(n.) One who advocates extreme measures; an ultraist; an extremist; a radical.

(pl. ) of Umbo

(n.) One of a certain description of militia among the Tartars.

(n.) One of a kind of light cavalry of Tartaric origin, first introduced into European armies in Poland. They are armed with lances, pistols, and sabers, and are employed chiefly as skirmishers.

(n.) In Russia, a published proclamation or imperial order, having the force of law.

(n.) A solution of continuity in any of the soft parts of the body, discharging purulent matter, found on a surface, especially one of the natural surfaces of the body, and originating generally in a constitutional disorder; a sore discharging pus. It is distinguished from an abscess, which has its beginning, at least, in the depth of the tissues.

(n.) Fig.: Anything that festers and corrupts like an open sore; a vice in character.

(v. t.) To ulcerate.

(n.) A kind of flower cluster in which the flower stalks radiate from a common point, as in the carrot and milkweed. It is simple or compound; in the latter case, each peduncle bears another little umbel, called umbellet, or umbellule.

(n.) A brown or reddish pigment used in both oil and water colors, obtained from certain natural clays variously colored by the oxides of iron and manganese. It is commonly heated or burned before being used, and is then called burnt umber; when not heated, it is called raw umber. See Burnt umber, below.

(n.) An umbrere.

(n.) See Grayling, 1.

(n.) An African wading bird (Scopus umbretta) allied to the storks and herons. It is dull dusky brown, and has a large occipital crest. Called also umbrette, umbre, and umber bird.

(a.) Of or pertaining to umber; resembling umber; olive-brown; dark brown; dark; dusky.

(v. t.) To color with umber; to shade or darken; as, to umber over one's face.

(n.) See Umber.

(n.) The glandular organ in which milk is secreted and stored; -- popularly called the bag in cows and other quadrupeds. See Mamma.

(n.) One of the breasts of a woman.

(n.) A college or corporation in Turkey composed of the hierarchy, namely, the imams, or ministers of religion, the muftis, or doctors of law, and the cadis, or administrators of justice.

(a.) Pertaining to ulmin; designating an acid obtained from ulmin.

(n.) A brown amorphous substance found in decaying vegetation. Cf. Humin.

(a.) Of or pertaining to the ulna, or the elbow; as, the ulnar nerve.