(a.) Not read or perused; as, an unread book.

(a.) Not versed in literature; illiterate.

(a.) Not real; unsubstantial; fanciful; ideal.

(v. t.) To loosen the reins of; to remove restraint from.

(n.) Want of rest or repose; unquietness; sleeplessness; uneasiness; disquietude.

(a.) Not ripe; as, unripe fruit.

(a.) Developing too early; premature.

(v. t. & i.) To disrobe; to undress; to take off the robes.

(v. t.) To open, as what is rolled or convolved; as, to unroll cloth; to unroll a banner.

(v. t.) To display; to reveal.

(v. t.) To remove from a roll or register, as a name.

(v. t.) To strip off the roof or covering of, as a house.

(v. t.) To tear up by the roots; to eradicate; to uproot.

(v. i.) To be torn up by the roots.

(a.) Not rude; polished.

(a.) Excessively rude.

(superl.) Not submissive to rule; disregarding restraint; disposed to violate; turbulent; ungovernable; refractory; as, an unruly boy; unruly boy; unruly conduct.

(v. t.) To break or remove the seal of; to open, as what is sealed; as, to unseal a letter.

(v. t.) To disclose, as a secret.

(v. t.) To open the seam or seams of; to rip; to cut; to cut open.

(v. t.) To throw from one's seat; to deprive of a seat.

(v. t.) Specifically, to deprive of the right to sit in a legislative body, as for fraud in election.

(v. t.) To open, as the eyes of a hawk that have been seeled; hence, to give light to; to enlighten.

(a.) Not seen or discovered.

(a.) Unskilled; inexperienced.

(a.) Not blessed or happy; wretched; unfortunate.

(a.) Not parted or divided, as the hair.

(a.) Not spilt, or made to flow, as blood or tears.

(v. t.) To take out of a ship or vessel; as, to unship goods.

(v. t.) To remove or detach, as any part or implement, from its proper position or connection when in use; as, to unship an oar; to unship capstan bars; to unship the tiller.

(v. t.) To remove the shot from, as from a shotted gun; to unload.

(a.) Not hit by a shot; also, not discharged or fired off.

(v. t.) To open, or throw open.

(a.) Not soft; hard; coarse; rough.

(adv.) Not softly.

(a.) Not sweet.

(v. t.) To deprive of soul, spirit, or principle.

(v. t.) To take the spars, stakes, or bars from.

(a.) Not performed; not dispatched.

(v. t.) To untwist, as something spun.

(v. t.) To remove, as a mast, from its step.

(v. t.) To take the stopple or stopper from; as, to unstop a bottle or a cask.

(v. t.) To free from any obstruction; to open.

(v. t.) Not to suit; to be unfit for.

(v. t.) To separate, as what is tacked; to disjoin; to release.

(v. t.) To unyoke a team from.

(v. t.) To bring out of a tent.

(a.) Unseasonable; untimely.

(a.) Not tidy or neat; slovenly.

(v. t.) To take the tiles from; to uncover by removing the tiles.

(n.) An unseasonable time.

(a.) Not told; not related; not revealed; as, untold secrets.

(a.) Not numbered or counted; as, untold money.

(v. t.) To take from the tomb; to exhume; to disinter.

(a.) Not true; false; contrary to the fact; as, the story is untrue.

(a.) Not faithful; inconstant; false; disloyal.

(adv.) Untruly.

(v. t.) To unfold or undo, as a tuck; to release from a tuck or fold.

(v. t.) To make incapable of harmony, or of harmonious action; to put out of tune.

(v. t.) To turn in a reserve way, especially so as to open something; as, to unturn a key.

(a.) Not used; as, an unused book; an unused apartment.

(a.) Not habituated; unaccustomed.

(v. t.) To remove a veil from; to divest of a veil; to uncover; to disclose to view; to reveal; as, she unveiled her face.

(v. i.) To remove a veil; to reveal one's self.

(v. t.) To reverse or annul by vote, as a former vote.

(a.) Unaware; not foreseeing; being off one's guard.

(a.) Happening unexpectedly; unforeseen.

(v. t.) To lose warmth; to grow cold.

(v. t.) To restore from a warped state; to cause to be linger warped.

(a.) Not vigilant against danger; not wary or cautious; unguarded; precipitate; heedless; careless.

(a.) Unexpected; unforeseen; unware.

(a.) Alt. of Unweldy

(a.) Not well; indisposed; not in good health; somewhat ill; ailing.

(a.) Specifically, ill from menstruation; affected with, or having, catamenial; menstruant.

(v. t.) To tame; to subdue.

(v. t.) To annul or reverse by an act of the will.

(v. t.) To wind off; to loose or separate, as what or convolved; to untwist; to untwine; as, to unwind thread; to unwind a ball of yarn.

(v. t.) To disentangle.

(v. i.) To be or become unwound; to be capable of being unwound or untwisted.

(a.) Not wise; defective in wisdom; injudicious; indiscreet; foolish; as, an unwise man; unwise kings; unwise measures.

(v. t.) To wish not to be; to destroy by wishing.

(a.) Not known; unknown.

(a.) Not knowing; unwitting.

(a.) Unwonted; unused; unaccustomed.

(v. t.) To undo or destroy, as work previously done.

(v. t.) To open or undo, as what is wrapped or folded.

(v. t.) To loose or free from a yoke.

(v. t.) To part; to disjoin; to disconnect.

(v. t.) To bear up; to raise aloft; to support in an elevated situation; to sustain.

(v. t.) To bind up.

(v. t.) To inflate.

(v. i.) To blow up; as, the wind upblows from the sea.

(a.) Cast up; thrown upward; as, with upcast eyes.

(n.) A cast; a throw.

(n.) The ventilating shaft of a mine out of which the air passes after having circulated through the mine; -- distinguished from the downcast. Called also upcast pit, and upcast shaft.

(n.) An upset, as from a carriage.

(n.) A taunt; a reproach.

(v. t.) To cast or throw up; to turn upward.

(v. t.) To taunt; to reproach; to upbraid.

(v. t. & i.) To coil up; to make into a coil, or to be made into a coil.

(v. t.) To curl up.

(v. i.) To spring upward; to rise.

(v. t.) To draw up.

(v. t.) To fill up.

(v. i.) To flow or stream up.

(v. i.) To gaze upward.

(v. t.) To give up or out.

(v. i.) To grow up.

(n.) A gushing upward.

(v. i.) To gush upward.

(a.) Lifted by the hand, or by both hands; as, the uphand sledge.

(v. t.) To hang up.

(v. t.) To hasp or faster up; to close; as, sleep uphasps the eyes.

() imp. & p. p. of Uphold.

(adv.) Upwards on, or as on, a hillside; as, to walk uphill.

(a.) Ascending; going up; as, an uphill road.

(a.) Attended with labor; difficult; as, uphill work.

(v. t.) To hold up; to lift on high; to elevate.

(v. t.) To keep erect; to support; to sustain; to keep from falling; to maintain.

(v. t.) To aid by approval or encouragement; to countenance; as, to uphold a person in wrongdoing.

(n.) Same as Euphroe.

(v. t.) To lead upward.

(v. i.) To lean or incline upon anything.

(v. t.) To lift or raise aloft; to raise; to elevate; as, to uplift the arm; to uplift a rock.

(n.) A raising or upheaval of strata so as to disturb their regularity and uniformity, and to occasion folds, dislocations, and the like.

(v. t.) To lock up.

(v. i.) To look or gaze up.

(a.) Highest; topmost; uppermost.

(a.) A Pent up; confined.

(v. t.) To pile, or heap, up.

(a.) Proud; arrogant; assuming; putting on airs of superiority.

(v. t.) To prop up.

(v. t.) To raise; to erect.

(v. i.) To rise; to get up; to appear from below the horizon.

(v. i.) To have an upward direction or inclination.

(n.) The act of rising; appearance above the horizon; rising.

(n.) Uprising.

() imp. of Uprise. Uprose.

(n.) Great tumult; violent disturbance and noise; noisy confusion; bustle and clamor.

(v. t.) To throw into uproar or confusion.

(v. i.) To make an uproar.

(v. t.) To root up; to tear up by the roots, or as if by the roots; to remove utterly; to eradicate; to extirpate.

(v. i.) To rush upward.

(n.) Act of rushing upward; an upbreak or upburst; as, an uprush of lava.

(v. i.) To seek or strain upward.

(v. t.) To send, cast, or throw up.

(n.) Final issue; conclusion; the sum and substance; the end; the result; the consummation.

(n.) The upper side; the part that is uppermost.

(n.) An upstart.

(v. i.) To soar or mount up.

(v. t.) To sustain; to support.

(n.) Insurrection; commotion; disturbance.

(v. t.) To sway or swing aloft; as, to upsway a club.

(v. t.) To take into the hand; to take up; to help.

(n.) The pipe leading upward from the smoke box of a steam boiler to the chimney, or smokestack; a flue leading upward.

(n.) Understanding; apprehension.

(v. t.) To tear up.

(prep.) To; against.

(adv.) To or in the upper part of a town; as, to go uptown.

(a.) Situated in, or belonging to, the upper part of a town or city; as, a uptown street, shop, etc.; uptown society.

(v. t.) To turn up; to direct upward; to throw up; as, to upturn the ground in plowing.

(v. t.) To waft upward.

(adv.) Alt. of Upwards

(a.) Directed toward a higher place; as, with upward eye; with upward course.

(n.) The upper part; the top.

(n.) Murexan.

(a.) Of or pertaining to the heavens; celestial; astronomical.

(a.) Pertaining to, resembling, or containing uranium; specifically, designating those compounds in which uranium has a valence relatively higher than in uranous compounds.

(n.) An alkaline salt of fluorescein, obtained as a brownish red substance, which is used as a dye; -- so called from the peculiar yellowish green fluorescence (resembling that of uranium glass) of its solutions. See Fluorescein.

(n.) The radical UO2, conveniently regarded as a residue of many uranium compounds.

() Of or containing urates; as, uratic calculi.

(a.) Courteous in manners; polite; refined; elegant.

(n.) A hedgehog.

(n.) A sea urchin. See Sea urchin.

(n.) A mischievous elf supposed sometimes to take the form a hedgehog.

(n.) A pert or roguish child; -- now commonly used only of a boy.

(n.) One of a pair in a series of small card cylinders, arranged around a carding drum; -- so called from its fancied resemblance to the hedgehog.

(a.) Rough; pricking; piercing.

(n.) Any one of the many complex derivatives of urea; thus, hydantoin, and, in an extended dense, guanidine, caffeine, et., are ureides.

(n.) The duct which conveys the urine from the kidney to the bladder or cloaca. There are two ureters, one for each kidney.

(a.) Of or pertaining to the urine; diuretic; urinary; as, uretic medicine.

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

(a.) Urging; pressing; besetting; plying, with importunity; calling for immediate attention; instantly important.

(n.) A vessel for holding urine; especially, a bottle or tube for holding urine for inspection.

(n.) A place or convenience for urinating purposes.

(n.) As much as an urn will hold; enough to fill an urn.

(n.) See Aurochs.

(n.) Any one of the abdominal appendages of a crustacean, especially one of the posterior ones, which are often larger than the rest, and different in structure, and are used chiefly in locomotion. See Illust. of Crustacea, and Stomapoda.

(a.) Of or pertaining to a bear; resembling a bear.

(a.) Capable of being used.

(n.) One who has the use of anything in trust for another.

(v. t.) Use; usage; employment.

(v. t.) Custom; practice; usage.

(v. t.) Interest paid for money; usury.

(v. t.) The time, fixed variously by the usage between different countries, when a bill of exchange is payable; as, a bill drawn on London at one usance, or at double usance.

(a.) Full of use, advantage, or profit; producing, or having power to produce, good; serviceable for any end or object; helpful toward advancing any purpose; beneficial; profitable; advantageous; as, vessels and instruments useful in a family; books useful for improvement; useful knowledge; useful arts.

(n. pl.) Ourselves.

(n.) The act of burning, or the state of being burned.

(n.) One who lends money and takes interest for it; a money lender.

(n.) One who lends money at a rate of interest beyond that established by law; one who exacts an exorbitant rate of interest for the use of money.

(n.) The organ of a female mammal in which the young are developed previous to birth; the womb.

(n.) A receptacle, or pouch, connected with the oviducts of many invertebrates in which the eggs are retained until they hatch or until the embryos develop more or less. See Illust. of Hermaphrodite in Append.

(a.) Situated at the farthest point or extremity; farthest out; most distant; extreme; as, the utmost limits of the land; the utmost extent of human knowledge.

(a.) Being in the greatest or highest degree, quantity, number, or the like; greatest; as, the utmost assiduity; the utmost harmony; the utmost misery or happiness.

(n.) The most that can be; the farthest limit; the greatest power, degree, or effort; as, he has done his utmost; try your utmost.

(a.) Resembling a grape.

(a.) Pertaining to, or designating, an acid, CH3C6H3(CO2H)2, obtained as a white crystalline substance by the partial oxidation of mesitylene; -- called also mesitic acid.

(a.) Of or pertaining to a uvula.

(v. t.) To divest of ornaments.

(n.) The time between; the time between sunrise and noon; specifically, the third hour of the day, or nine o'clock in the morning, according to ancient reckoning; hence, mealtime, because formerly the principal meal was eaten at that hour; also, later, the afternoon; the time between dinner and supper.

(v. t.) To take out of dock; as, to undock a ship.

(n.) One who undoes anything; especially, one who ruins another.

() p. p. of Undo.

(a.) Not done or performed; neglected.

(v. t.) To draw aside or open; to draw back.

(v. t.) To deprive of dukedom.

(v. t.) To remove the dullness of; to clear.

(adv.) In an undue manner.

(v. t.) To free from dust.

(n.) Want of ease; uneasiness.

(a.) Not easy; difficult.

(a.) Restless; disturbed by pain, anxiety, or the like; disquieted; perturbed.

(a.) Not easy in manner; constrained; stiff; awkward; not graceful; as, an uneasy deportment.

(a.) Occasioning want of ease; constraining; cramping; disagreeable; unpleasing.

(a.) Not easy; difficult; hard.

(adv.) Not easily; hardly; scarcely.

(v. t.) To deprive of the edge; to blunt.

(a.) Not even; not level; not uniform; rough; as, an uneven road or way; uneven ground.

(a.) Not equal; not of equal length.

(a.) Not divisible by two without a remainder; odd; -- said of numbers; as, 3, 7, and 11 are uneven numbers.

(v. t.) To remove the face or cover from; to unmask; to expose.

(v. t.) To deprive of fairness or beauty.

(a.) Not fair; not honest; not impartial; disingenuous; using or involving trick or artifice; dishonest; unjust; unequal.

(v. t.) To remove from a file or record.

(a.) Infirm.

(v. t.) To open the folds of; to expand; to spread out; as, to unfold a tablecloth.

(v. t.) To open, as anything covered or close; to lay open to view or contemplation; to bring out in all the details, or by successive development; to display; to disclose; to reveal; to elucidate; to explain; as, to unfold one's designs; to unfold the principles of a science.

(v. t.) To release from a fold or pen; as, to unfold sheep.

(v. i.) To open; to expand; to become disclosed or developed.

(v. t.) To restore from folly, or from being a fool.

(v. t.) To decompose, or resolve into parts; to destroy the form of; to unmake.

(a.) Not free; held in bondage.

(v. t.) To smooth after being fretted.

(v. t. & i.) To loose from a furled state; to unfold; to expand; to open or spread; as, to unfurl sails; to unfurl a flag.

(a.) Ungainly; clumsy; awkward; also, troublesome; inconvenient.

(v. t.) To strip of gear; to unharness; to throw out of gear.

(v. t.) To loose the girdle or band of; to unbind; to unload.

(v. t. & i.) To yield; to relax; to give way.

(v. t.) To separate, part, or open, as anything fastened with glue.

(v. t.) To strip of a gown; to unfrock.

(a.) Of or pertaining to a nail, claw, talon, or hoof, or resembling one.

(a.) Having a nail, claw, or hoof attached; -- said of certain bones of the feet.

(pl. ) of Unguis

(n.) The nail, claw, talon, or hoof of a finger, toe, or other appendage.

(n.) One of the terminal hooks on the foot of an insect.

(n.) The slender base of a petal in some flowers; a claw; called also ungula.

(n.) A hoof, claw, or talon.

(n.) A section or part of a cylinder, cone, or other solid of revolution, cut off by a plane oblique to the base; -- so called from its resemblance to the hoof of a horse.

(n.) Same as Unguis, 3.

(v. t.) To deprive of hair, or of hairs; as, to unhair hides for leather.

(v. t.) To loose from the hand; to let go.

(v. t.) To divest or strip of hangings; to remove the hangings, as a room.

(v. t.) To remove (something hanging or swinging) from that which supports it; as, to unhang a gate.

(v. t.) To unloose the hasp of; to unclose.

(v. t.) To take out the head of; as, to unhead a cask.

(v. t.) To decapitate; to behead.

(n.) Misfortune; calamity; sickness.

(v. t.) To uncover. See Unhele.

(n.) Same as Unheal, n.

(v. t.) To uncover.

(v. t.) To deprive of the helm or helmet.

(v. t.) To bring out from concealment; to discover.

(v. t. v. t.) To drive or remove from a hive.

(v. t. v. t.) To deprive of habitation or shelter, as a crowd.

(v. t.) To cease to hold; to unhand; to release.

(a.) Not holy; unhallowed; not consecrated; hence, profane; wicked; impious.

(v. t.) To remove a hood or disguise from.

(v. t.) To loose from a hook; to undo or open by loosening or unfastening the hooks of; as, to unhook a fish; to unhook a dress.

(v. t.) To strip or deprive of hoops; to take away the hoops of.

(a.) Having only one foot.

(a.) Being without a like or equal; unmatched; unequaled; unparalleled; single in kind or excellence; sole.

(n.) A thing without a like; something unequaled or unparalleled.

(n.) Harmony; agreement; concord; union.

(n.) Identity in pitch; coincidence of sounds proceeding from an equality in the number of vibrations made in a given time by two or more sonorous bodies. Parts played or sung in octaves are also said to be in unison, or in octaves.

(n.) A single, unvaried.

(n.) Sounding alone.

(n.) Sounded alike in pitch; unisonant; unisonous; as, unison passages, in which two or more parts unite in coincident sound.

(n.) One who, or that which, unites.

(v. t.) To disjoin.

(a.) Acting contrary to the standard of right; not animated or controlled by justice; false; dishonest; as, an unjust man or judge.

(a.) Contrary to justice and right; prompted by a spirit of injustice; wrongful; as, an unjust sentence; an unjust demand; an unjust accusation.

(a.) Unknown; strange.

(a.) Having no race or kindred; childless.

(a.) Not kind; contrary to nature, or the law of kind or kindred; unnatural.

(a.) Wanting in kindness, sympathy, benevolence, gratitude, or the like; cruel; harsh; unjust; ungrateful.

(v. t.) To cause to cease to be a king.

(v. t.) To cancel or annul what was done or sealed by a kiss; to cancel by a kiss.

(v. t.) To undo or unravel what is knitted together.

(v. t.) To free from knots; to untie.

(v. t.) To cease to know; to lose the knowledge of.

(v. t.) To fail of knowing; to be ignorant of.

(a.) Unknown.

(v. t.) To loose by undoing a lacing; as, to unlace a shoe.

(v. t.) To loose the dress of; to undress; hence, to expose; to disgrace.

(v. t.) To loose, and take off, as a bonnet from a sail, or to cast off, as any lacing in any part of the rigging of a vessel.

(v. t.) To take the load from; to take out the cargo of; as, to unlade a ship or a wagon.

(v. t.) To unload; to remove, or to have removed, as a load or a burden; to discharge.

(a.) Not laid or placed; not fixed.

(a.) Not allayed; not pacified; not laid finally to rest.

(a.) Not laid out, as a corpse.

(v. t.) To deprive of lands.

(v. t.) To loose, as that which is lashed or tied down.

(conj.) Upon any less condition than (the fact or thing stated in the sentence or clause which follows); if not; supposing that not; if it be not; were it not that; except; as, we shall fail unless we are industrious.

(a.) Not like; dissimilar; diverse; having no resemblance; as, the cases are unlike.

(a.) Not likely; improbable; unlikely.

(v. t.) To take the lining out of; hence, to empty; as, to unline one's purse.

(v. t.) To separate or undo, as links; to uncoil; to unfasten.

(v. t.) To //ve in a contrary manner, as a life; to live in a manner contrary to.

(v. t.) To take the load from; to discharge of a load or cargo; to disburden; as, to unload a ship; to unload a beast.

(v. t.) Hence, to relieve from anything onerous.

(v. t.) To discharge or remove, as a load or a burden; as, to unload the cargo of a vessel.

(v. t.) To draw the charge from; as, to unload a gun.

(v. t.) To sell in large quantities, as stock; to get rid of.

(v. i.) To perform the act of unloading anything; as, let unload now.

(v. t.) To unfasten, as what is locked; as, to unlock a door or a chest.

(v. t.) To open, in general; to lay open; to undo.

(v. t.) To recall or retract, as a look.

(v. t.) To deprive of the rank or position of a lord.

(v. t.) To cease to love; to hate.

(n.) Listlessness; disinclination.

(v. t.) To separate, as things cemented or luted; to take the lute or the clay from.

(a.) Not yet made or formed; as, an unmade grave.

(a.) Deprived of form, character, etc.; disunited.

(v. t.) To destroy the form and qualities of; to deprive of being; to uncreate.

(v. t.) To strip of a mask or disguise; to lay open; to expose.

(v. i.) To put off a mask.

(a.) Not meet or fit; not proper; unbecoming; unsuitable; -- usually followed by for.

(v. t.) Alt. of Unmould

(v. t.) To cause to ride with one anchor less than before, after having been moored by two or more anchors.

(v. t.) To loose from anchorage. See Moor, v. t.

(v. i.) To weigh anchor.

(v. t.) To remove the nails from; to unfasten by removing nails.

(prep.) Not near; not close to; at a distance from.

(v. t.) To eject from a nest; to unnestle.

(a.) Ownerless.

(a.) Not owed; as, to pay money unowed.

(v. t.) To separate and remove, as things packed; to open and remove the contents of; as, to unpack a trunk.

(v. t.) To relieve of a pack or burden.

(v. t.) To pick out; to undo by picking.

(n.) Want of piety.

(v. t.) To take out the folds or twists of, as something previously platted; to unfold; to unwreathe.

(v. t.) To divest of the character, office, or authority of a pope.

(v. t.) To deprive of a pope.

(v. t.) To revoke or annul by prayer, as something previously prayed for.

(v. t.) To remove a prop or props from; to deprive of support.

(a.) Not pure; impure.

(v. t.) To remove a bank from; to open by, or as if by, the removal of a bank.

(v. t.) To deprive of the bark; to decorticate; to strip; as, to unbark a tree.

(v. t.) To cause to disembark; to land.

(v. t.) To remove or loose the bearing rein of (a horse).

(v. t.) To remove or loose the belt of; to ungird.

(imp. & p. p.) of Unbend

(v. t.) To free from flexure; to make, or allow to become, straight; to loosen; as, to unbend a bow.

(v. t.) A remit from a strain or from exertion; to set at ease for a time; to relax; as, to unbend the mind from study or care.

(v. t.) To unfasten, as sails, from the spars or stays to which they are attached for use.

(v. t.) To cast loose or untie, as a rope.

(v. i.) To cease to be bent; to become straight or relaxed.

(v. i.) To relax in exertion, attention, severity, or the like; hence, to indulge in mirth or amusement.

(v. t.) To free from bias or prejudice.

(v. t.) To remove a band from; to set free from shackles or fastenings; to unite; to unfasten; to loose; as, unbind your fillets; to unbind a prisoner's arms; to unbind a load.

(v. t.) To free from the body; to disembody.

(v. i.) To leave the body; to be disembodied; -- said of the soul or spirit.

(v. t.) To remove a bolt from; to unfasten; to unbar; to open.

(v. i.) To explain or unfold a matter; to make a revelation.

(v. t.) To deprive of bones, as meat; to bone.

(v. t.) To twist about, as if boneless.

(v. t.) To take off the boots from.

(a.) Not born; no yet brought into life; being still to appear; future.

(a.) Not begotten; unborn.

(a.) Not taught or trained; -- with to.

(a.) Not well-bred; ill-bred.

(v. t.) To remove the bung from; as, to unbung a cask.

(v. t.) To disinter; to exhume; fig., to disclose.

(v. t.) To loose, or release, from, or as from, a cage.

(v. t.) To disturb; to disquiet.

(v. t.) To break up the camp of; to dislodge from camp.

(v. t.) To take from, or set free from, a cart; to unload.

(v. t.) To take out of a case or covering; to remove a case or covering from; to uncover.

(v. t.) To strip; to flay.

(v. t.) To display, or spread to view, as a flag, or the colors of a military body.

(pl. ) of Uncia

(a.) Of, pertaining to, or designating, a certain style of letters used in ancient manuscripts, esp. in Greek and Latin manuscripts. The letters are somewhat rounded, and the upstrokes and downstrokes usually have a slight inclination. These letters were used as early as the 1st century b. c., and were seldom used after the 10th century a. d., being superseded by the cursive style.

(n.) An uncial letter.

(pl. ) of Uncinus

(v. t.) To deprive of the rank or rights of a city.

(v. t.) To unwind, unfold, or untie; hence, to undo; to ruin.

(v. t.) To disencumber of a clog, or of difficulties and obstructions; to free from encumbrances; to set at liberty.

(v. t.) To let down the cock of, as a firearm.

(v. t.) To deprive of its cocked shape, as a hat, etc.

(v. t.) To open or spread from a cock or heap, as hay.

(v. t.) To deprive of the coif or cap.

(v. t.) To unwind or open, as a coil of rope.

(v. t.) To unhorse.

(v. t.) To release from cords; to loosen the cord or cords of; to unfasten or unbind; as, to uncord a package.

(v. t.) To draw the cork from; as, to uncork a bottle.

(a.) Hooklike; hooked.

(v. t.) To divest or deprive of a cowl.

(v. t.) To loose from curls, or ringlets; to straighten out, as anything curled or curly.

(v. i.) To become uncurled, or straight.

(a.) Unknown; strange.

(n.) A stranger.

(v. t.) To free from deafness; to cause to hear.

(v. t.) To wind up.

(a.) Making one or unity; unifying.

(n. pl.) The entrails and coarser parts of a deer; hence, sometimes, entrails, in general.

(pl. ) of Umbra

(n.) An umbrella.

(n.) A umbrere.

(n.) The euphonic modification of a root vowel sound by the influence of a, u, or especially i, in the syllable which formerly followed.

(n.) A person to whose sole decision a controversy or question between parties is referred; especially, one chosen to see that the rules of a game, as cricket, baseball, or the like, are strictly observed.

(n.) A third person, who is to decide a controversy or question submitted to arbitrators in case of their disagreement.

(v. t.) To decide as umpire; to arbitrate; to settle, as a dispute.

(v. t.) To perform the duties of umpire in or for; as, to umpire a game.

(v. i.) To act as umpire or arbitrator.

(a.) Not able; not having sufficient strength, means, knowledge, skill, or the like; impotent' weak; helpless; incapable; -- now usually followed by an infinitive or an adverbial phrase; as, unable for work; unable to bear fatigue.

(a.) Ugly; offensive; loathsome.

(a.) Ultimate; final.

() In the month immediately preceding the present; as, on the 1st ultimo; -- usually abbreviated to ult. Cf. Proximo.

(n.) The act of taking vengeance; revenge.

(a.) A prefix from the Latin ultra beyond (see Ulterior), having in composition the signification beyond, on the other side, chiefly when joined with words expressing relations of place; as, ultramarine, ultramontane, ultramundane, ultratropical, etc. In other relations it has the sense of excessively, exceedingly, beyond what is common, natural, right, or proper; as, ultraconservative; ultrademocratic, ultradespotic, ultraliberal, ultraradical, etc.

(n.) Same as Ouakari.

(n.) Fruitfulness; copiousness; abundance; plenty.

(n.) The quality or state of being in a place; local relation; position or location; whereness.

(n.) Alt. of Udalman

(v. t.) To disfigure; to make ugly.

(adv.) In an ugly manner; with deformity.

(n.) The amount which a vessel, as a cask, of liquor lacks of being full; wantage; deficiency.

(n.) See Melluc/o.

(n.) A salt of ulmic acid.

(n.) Measurement by the ell; alnage.

(n.) One of the bones or cartilages of the carpus, which articulates with the ulna and corresponds to the cuneiform in man.