Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter U

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Molt, Moult, (v. i.) [imp. & p. p. Molted or Moulted; p. pr. & vb. n. Molting or Moulting.] [OE. mouten, L. mutare. See Mew to molt, and cf. Mute, v. t.] [The prevalent spelling is, perhaps, moult; but as the u has not been inserted in the otherwords of this class, as, bolt, colt, dolt, etc., it is desirable to complete the analogy by the spelling molt.] To shed or cast the hair, feathers, skin, horns, or the like, as an animal or a bird. -- Bacon. Molt

U () The twenty-first letter of the English alphabet, is a cursive form of the letter V, with which it was formerly used interchangeably, both letters being then used both as vowels and consonants. U and V are now, however, differentiated, U being used only as a vowel or semivowel, and V only as a consonant. The true primary vowel sound of U, in Anglo-Saxon, was the sound which it still retains in most of the languages of Europe, that of long oo, as in tool, and short oo, as in wood, answering to the French ou in tour. Etymologically U is most closely related to o, y (vowel), w, and v; as in two, duet, dyad, twice; top, tuft; sop, sup; auspice, aviary. See V, also O and Y.

See Guide to Pronunciation, [sect][sect] 130-144.

U (a.) (Chiefly British) Of or appropriate to the upper classes especially in language use.

U (n.) A base containing nitrogen that is found in RNA (but not in. DNA) and derived from pyrimidine; pairs with adenine [syn: uracil, U].

U (n.) A heavy toxic silvery-white radioactive metallic element; occurs in many isotopes; used for nuclear fuels and nuclear weapons [syn: uranium, U, atomic number 92].

U (n.) The 21st letter of the Roman alphabet [syn: U, u].

Uakari (n.) (Zool.) Same as Ouakari.

Uakari (n.) 禿猴屬 Medium-sized tree-dwelling monkey of the Amazon basin; only New World monkey with a short tail.

Uberous (a.) [L. uber.] 多育的, 繁殖的 Fruitful; copious; abundant; plentiful. [Obs.] -- Sir T. Herbert.

Uberty (n.) [L. ubertas.] Fruitfulness; copiousness; abundance; plenty. [Obs.] -- Florio. Ubication

Ubication (n.) Alt. of Ubiety

Ubiety (n.) The quality or state of being in a place; local relation; position or location; whereness. [R.] -- Glanvill.

Ubiety (n.) The state of existing and being localized in space.

Ubiquarian (a.) Ubiquitous. [R.] Ubiquist

Ubiquitist (n.) Alt. of Ubiquitarian

Ubiquist, Ubiquitarian, (n.) (Eccl. Hist.) One of a school of Lutheran divines which held that the body of Christ is present everywhere, and especially in the eucharist, in virtue of his omnipresence. Called also ubiquitist, and ubiquitary.

Ubiquitist (n.) Same as Ubiquist.

Ubiquitariness (n.) Quality or state of being ubiquitary, or ubiquitous. [R.] -- Fuller.

Ubiquitary (a.) Ubiquitous. -- Howell.

Ubiquitaries (n. pl. ) of Ubiquitary

Ubiquitary (n.) One who exists everywhere. -- B. Jonson.

Ubiquitary (n.) (Eccl. Hist.) A ubiquist. -- Bp. Hall.

Compare: Ubiquist

Ubiquist, Ubiquitarian, (n.) [L. ubique everywhere: cf. F. ubiquiste, ubiquitaire. See Ubiquity.] (Eccl. Hist.) One of a school of Lutheran divines which held that the body of Christ is present everywhere, and especially in the eucharist, in virtue of his omnipresence. Called also ubiquitist, and ubiquitary.

Ubiquitist (n.) Same as Ubiquist.

Ubiquitous (a.) Existing or being everywhere, or in all places, at the same time; omnipresent. -- U*biq"ui*tous*ly, adv.

In this sense is he ubiquitous. -- R. D. Hitchcock.

Ubiquitous (a.) Being present everywhere at once [syn: omnipresent, ubiquitous].

Ubiquitous (a.) (Formal or humorous) 普遍存在的，似乎無處不在的 Seeming to be everywhere.

// Leather is very much in fashion this season, as is the ubiquitous denim.

// The Swedes are not alone in finding their language under pressure from the ubiquitous spread of English.

// The mobile phone, that most ubiquitous of consumer-electronic appliances, is about to enter a new age.

Ubiquity (n.) Existence everywhere, or in places, at the same time; omnipresence; as, the ubiquity of God is not disputed by those who admit his existence.

The arms of Rome . . . were impeded by . . . the wide spaces to be traversed and the ubiquity of the enemy. -- C. Merivale.

Ubiquity (n.) (Theol.) The doctrine, as formulated by Luther, that Christ's glorified body is omnipresent.

Ubiquity (n.) The state of being everywhere at once (or seeming to be everywhere at once) [syn: ubiquity, ubiquitousness, omnipresence].

Ubiquity (n.) The gift or power of being in all places at one time, but not in all places at all times, which is omnipresence, an attribute of God and the luminiferous ether only. This important distinction between ubiquity and omnipresence was not clear to the mediaeval Church and there was much bloodshed about it. Certain Lutherans, who affirmed the presence everywhere of Christ's body were known as Ubiquitarians. For this error they were doubtless damned, for Christ's body is present only in the eucharist, though that sacrament may be performed in more than one place simultaneously. In recent times ubiquity has not always been understood -- not even by Sir Boyle Roche, for example, who held that a man cannot be in two places at once unless he is a bird.

Uchees (n. pl.) (Ethnol.) A tribe of North American Indians belonging to the Creek confederation.

Uckewallist (n.) (prop. n.) (Eccl. Hist.) One of a sect of rigid Anabaptists, which originated in 1637, and whose tenets were essentially the same as those of the Mennonists. In addition, however, they held that Judas and the murderers of Christ were saved. So called from the founder of the sect, Ucke Wallis, a native of Friesland. -- Eadie. Udaler Udalborn Udal

Compare: Odal

Odal (n.) (Law) Among the early and medieval Teutonic peoples, esp. Scandinavians, the heritable land held by the various odalmen constituting a family or kindred of freeborn tribesmen; also, the ownership of such land. The odal was subject only to certain rights of the family or kindred in restricting the freedom of transfer or sale and giving certain rights of redemption in case of change of ownership by inheritance, etc., and perhaps to other rights of the kindred or the tribe. Survivals of the early odal estates and tenure exist in Orkney and Shetland, where it is usually called by the variant form udal.

Udal, (n. & a.) Udalborn, Udaler, Udalman, etc.

Vars. of Odal, etc.; property held by udal, or allodial, right -- Obs. exc. in Shetland and the Orkney Islands, where udal designates a freehold, land held in fee simple without any charter and free of any feudal character.

Udal (n.) In Shetland and Orkney, a freehold; property held by udal, or allodial, right. -- Sir W. Scott.

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

Udaler (n.) Alt. of Udalman

Udalman (n.) In the Shetland and Orkney Islands, one who holds property by udal, or allodial, right. -- Sir W. Scott.

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

A lioness, with udders all drawn dry. -- Shak.

Udder (n.) One of the breasts of a woman. [R.]

Yon Juno of majestic size, With cowlike udders, and with oxlike eyes. -- Pope.

Udder (n.) Mammary gland of bovids (cows and sheep and goats) [syn: udder, bag].

Uddered (a.) Having an udder or udders.

Udderless (a.) Destitute or deprived of an udder.

Udderless (a.) Hence, without mother's milk; motherless; as, udderless lambs. [Poetic] -- Keats.

Udometer (n.) (Meteor.) A rain gauge.

Udometer (n.) Gauge consisting of an instrument to measure the quantity of precipitation [syn: rain gauge, rain gage, pluviometer, udometer].

Ugh (interj.) An exclamation expressive of disgust, horror, or recoil. Its utterance is usually accompanied by a shudder.

Uglesome (a.) Ugly. [Obs.] "Such an uglesome countenance." -- Latimer.

Uglify (v. t.) 使醜，弄成難看，糟蹋，醜化 To disfigure; to make ugly. [R.] -- Mad. D'Arblay.

Uglify (v.) Make ugly [ant: {beautify}, {embellish}, {fancify}, {prettify}].

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

Ugliness (n.) The quality or state of being ugly.

Ugliness (n.) Qualities of appearance that do not give pleasure to the senses [ant: beauty].

Ugliness (n.) The quality of being wicked [syn: nefariousness, wickedness, vileness, ugliness].

Ugliness (n.) A gift of the gods to certain women, entailing virtue without humility.

Ugly (n.) A shade for the face, projecting from the bonnet. [Colloq. Eng.] -- C. Kingsley.

Ugly (v. t.) To make ugly. [R.] -- Richardson.

Ugly (a.) 醜的，難看的；可怕的，可憎的；討厭的；邪惡的，醜陋的 Offensive to the sight; contrary to beauty; being of disagreeable or loathsome aspect; unsightly; repulsive; deformed.

The ugly view of his deformed crimes. -- Spenser.

Like the toad, ugly and venomous. -- Shak.

O, I have passed a miserable night, So full of ugly sights, of ghastly dreams. -- Shak.

Ugly (a.) Ill-natured; crossgrained; quarrelsome; as, an ugly temper; to feel ugly. [Colloq. U. S.]

Ugly (a.) Unpleasant; disagreeable; likely to cause trouble or loss; as, an ugly rumor; an ugly customer. [Colloq.]

Ugly (a.) Displeasing to the senses; "an ugly face"; "ugly furniture" [ant: {beautiful}].

Ugly (a.) Inclined to anger or bad feelings with overtones of menace; "a surly waiter"; "an ugly frame of mind" [syn: {surly}, {ugly}].

Ugly (a.) Morally reprehensible; "would do something as despicable as murder"; "ugly crimes"; "the vile development of slavery appalled them"; "a slimy little liar" [syn: {despicable}, {ugly}, {vile}, {slimy}, {unworthy}, {worthless}, {wretched}].

Ugly (a.) Provoking horror; "an atrocious automobile accident"; "a frightful crime of decapitation"; "an alarming, even horrifying, picture"; "war is beyond all words horrible"- Winston Churchill; "an ugly wound" [syn: {atrocious}, {frightful}, {horrifying}, {horrible}, {ugly}].

Ugrian (n. pl.) (Ethnol.) A Mongolian race, ancestors of the Finns. [Written also Uigrian.]

Ugrian (n.) One of the two branches of the Finno-Ugric family of languages; spoken in Hungary and northwestern Siberia [syn: Ugric, Ugrian].

Ugsome (a.) Ugly; offensive; loathsome. [Obs.] -- Ug"some*ness, n. [Obs.] "The horror and ugsomeness of death." -- Latimer.

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

Uhlan (n.) (Mil.) 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.

Uhuru Park (n.) Is a green reserve park amidst vast high-rise development in the heart of Nairobi-Kenya. It boarders: Ngong road (North) Haillesellasie Avenue (South) Uhuru Highway (East) and Nyerere road (West).

Uighur (n.) 維吾爾人；維吾爾族 A member of a people who speak Uighur and live in Xinjiang and adjacent areas [syn: Uighur, Uigur, Uygur].

Uighur (n.) The Turkic language spoken by approximately 7,000,000 Uighur in extreme northwestern China [syn: Uighur, Uigur, Uygur].

Uighur (n.) The script (derived from Aramaic) used to write the Uighur language [syn: Uighur, Uigur, Uygur].

Uighur (also Uigur, Uygur) (n.) (uighur, uighurs) 維吾爾族 A member of a Turkic people of northwestern China, particularly the Xinjiang region, and adjoining areas.

‘Delegates, including Tibetans, Cantonese speakers from Hong Kong and Macao, and Turkic Uighurs from Xinjiang in the remote northwest, struggle to make themselves understood in Mandarin.’

Uighur (also Uigur, Uygur) (n.) (uighur, uighurs) The Turkic language of the Uighur.

‘Khalkha Mongolian may be written in traditional Uighur or Cyrillic script.’

Uighur (a.) Relating to the Uighur or their language.

‘The reforms of the Kazak and Uygur writing systems are examples of adoption of the Plan under political pressure against the will of the two language communities.’

Uintatherium (n.) (Paleon.) An extinct genus of large Eocene ungulates allied to Dinoceras. This name is sometimes used for nearly all the known species of the group. See Dinoceras.

Compare: Dinoceras

Dinoceras (n.) (Paleon.) A genus of large extinct Eocene mammals from Wyoming; -- {Uintatherium"> called also {Uintatherium. See Illustration in Appendix.

Note: They were herbivorous, and remarkable for three pairs of hornlike protuberances on the skull. The males were armed with a pair of powerful canine tusks.

Uintatherium (n.) Type genus of the Uintatheriidae; extinct large herbivorous ungulates somewhat resembling elephants; from the Eocene in Wyoming [syn: Uintatherium, genus Uintatherium].

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

Ukase (n.) An order or edict by someone holding absolute authority.

Ukase (n.) An edict of the Russian tsar.

Ukraine (n.) 烏克蘭 Ukraine sometimes called the Ukraine, [8] is a sovereign state in Eastern Europe, [9] bordered by Russia to the east, northeast, and south, Belarus to the northwest, Poland, Hungary and Slovakia to the west, Romania, and Moldova to the southwest, and the Black Sea and Sea of Azov to the south and southeast, respectively. Ukraine is currently in territorial dispute with Russia over the Crimean Peninsula which Russia annexed in 2014 [10] but which Ukraine and most of the international community recognise as Ukrainian. Including Crimea, Ukraine has an area of 603,628 km2 (233,062 sq mi), [11] making it the largest country entirely within Europe and the 46th largest country in the world. Excluding Crimea, Ukraine has a population of about 42.5 million, making it the 32nd most populous country in the world.

The territory of modern Ukraine has been inhabited since 32,000 BC. During the Middle Ages, the area was a key centre of East Slavic culture, with the powerful state of Kievan Rus' forming the basis of Ukrainian identity. Following its fragmentation in the 13th century, the territory was contested, ruled and divided by a variety of powers, including Lithuania, Poland, the Ottoman Empire, Austria-Hungary, and Russia. A Cossack republic emerged and prospered during the 17th and 18th centuries, but its territory was eventually split between Poland and the Russian Empire, and later merged fully into Russia.

During the 20th century three periods of independence occurred. The first of these periods occurred briefly during and immediately after the German occupation near the end of World War I and the second occurred, also briefly, and also during German occupation, during World War II. However, both of these first two earlier periods would eventually see Ukraine's territories consolidated back into a Soviet republic within the USSR. The third period of independence began in 1991, when Ukraine gained its independence from the Soviet Union in the aftermath of its dissolution at the end of the Cold War. Ukraine has maintained its independence as a sovereign state ever since. Before its independence, Ukraine was typically referred to in English as "The Ukraine", but sources since then have moved to drop "the" from the name of Ukraine in all uses. [12]

Following its independence, Ukraine declared itself a neutral state. [13] Nonetheless it formed a limited military partnership with the Russian Federation and other CIS countries and a partnership with NATO in 1994. In the 2000s, the government began leaning towards NATO, and a deeper cooperation with the alliance was set by the NATO-Ukraine Action Plan signed in 2002. It was later agreed that the question of joining NATO should be answered by a national referendum at some point in the future. [14] Former President Viktor Yanukovych considered the current level of co-operation between Ukraine and NATO sufficient, [15] and was against Ukraine joining NATO. [16] In 2013, after the government of President Yanukovych had decided to suspend the Ukraine-European Union Association Agreement and seek closer economic ties with Russia, a several-months-long wave of demonstrations and protests known as the Euromaidan began, which later escalated into the 2014 Ukrainian revolution that led to the overthrow of President Yanukovych and his cabinet and the establishment of a new government. These events formed the background for the annexation of Crimea by Russia in March 2014, and the War in Donbass in April 2014. On 1 January 2016, Ukraine applied the economic part of the Deep and Comprehensive Free Trade Area with the European Union. [17]

Ukraine has long been a global breadbasket because of its extensive, fertile farmlands and is one of the world's largest grain exporters. [18] [19] The diversified economy of Ukraine includes a large heavy industry sector, particularly in aerospace and industrial equipment.

Ukraine is a unitary republic under a semi-presidential system with separate powers: legislative, executive and judicial branches. Its capital and largest city is Kiev. Taking into account reserves and paramilitary personnel, [20] Ukraine maintains the second-largest military in Europe after that of Russia. The country is home to 42.5 million people (excluding Crimea), [3] 77.8 percent of whom are Ukrainians "by ethnicity", followed by a sizeable minority of Russians (17.3 percent) as well as Romanians/ Moldovans, Belarusians, Crimean Tatars, Bulgarians and Hungarians. Ukrainian is the official language and its alphabet is Cyrillic. The dominant religion in the country is Eastern Orthodoxy, which has strongly influenced Ukrainian architecture, literature and music. It is a member of the United Nations since its founding, the Council of Europe, OSCE, GUAM, and one of the founding states of the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS).

Compare: Uhlan

Uhlan (n.) [Written also ulan, and formerly hulan.] 烏蘭（波蘭語：Ułan；德語：Ulan）是裝備騎槍、軍刀、手槍的波蘭輕騎兵。這個頭銜在後來的俄羅斯、普魯士與奧地利軍隊中被用來稱呼槍騎兵團 One of a certain description of militia among the Tartars.

Ulan (n.) See Uhlan.

Ularburong (n.) (Zool.) A large East Indian nocturnal tree snake ({Dipsas dendrophila). It is not venomous.

Ulcer (n.) (Med.) 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.

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

Cold ulcer (Med.), An ulcer on a finger or toe, due to deficient circulation and nutrition. In such cases the extremities are cold.

Ulcer (v. t.) To ulcerate. [R.] -- Fuller.

Ulcer (n.) A circumscribed inflammatory and often suppurating lesion on the skin or an internal mucous surface resulting in necrosis of tissue [syn: ulcer, ulceration].

Ulcerable (a.) Capable of ulcerating.

Ulcerated (imp. & p. p.) of Ulcerate.

Ulcerating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Ulcerate.

Ulcerate (v. i.) To be formed into an ulcer; to become ulcerous.

Ulcerate (v. t.) To affect with, or as with, an ulcer or ulcers. -- Harvey.

Ulcerate (v.) Undergo ulceration; "Her stomach ulcerated".

Ulcerate (v.) Affect with an ulcer; "Her stomach was ulcerated".

Ulcerated (a.) Affected with, or as with, an ulcer or ulcers; as, an ulcerated sore throat.

Ulcerated (a.) Having an ulcer or canker [syn: cankerous, ulcerated, ulcerous].

Ulceration (n.) (Med.) The process of forming an ulcer, or of becoming ulcerous; the state of being ulcerated; also, an ulcer.

Ulceration (n.) A circumscribed inflammatory and often suppurating lesion on the skin or an internal mucous surface resulting in necrosis of tissue [syn: ulcer, ulceration].

Ulceration (n.) The process of ulcer formation; the process of becoming ulcerated.

Ulcerative (a.) Of or pertaining to ulcers; as, an ulcerative process.

Ulcerative (a.) Of or relating to or characterized by ulceration; "ulcerative colitis".

Ulcerative colitis (n.) (Med.) 潰瘍性結腸炎（一種炎症性腸病）Is a chronic disease of the large intestine, in which the lining of the colon becomes inflamed and develops tiny open sores, or ulcers. This condition is the result of your immune system’s overactive response.

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Ulcered (a.) Ulcerous; ulcerated.

Ulcerous (a.) Having the nature or character of an ulcer; discharging purulent or other matter. -- R. Browning.

Ulcerous (a.) Affected with an ulcer or ulcers; ulcerated.

It will but skin and film the ulcerous place. -- Shak. -- Ul"cer*ous*ly, adv. -- Ul"cer*ous*ness, n. Ulcuscle

Ulcerous (a.) Having an ulcer or canker [syn: cankerous, ulcerated, ulcerous].

Ulcuscle (n.) Alt. of Ulcuscule

Ulcuscule (n.) A little ulcer. [R.]

Ule (n.) [Sp.] (Bot.) A Mexican and Central American tree (Castilloa elastica and C. Markhamiana) related to the breadfruit tree. Its milky juice contains caoutchouc. Called also ule tree.

Ulema (n.) (Islam) A college or body composed of the hierarchy (the imams, or ministers of religion, the muftis, or doctors of law, and the cadis, or administrators of justice). That of Turkey alone now has political power; its head is the sheik ul Islam.

Note: This definition was written ca. 1900. The government of Turkey in 1998 is exclusively secular, whereas Iran in 2001 is dominated by Moslem clergy.

Ulema (n.) The body of Mullahs (Muslim scholars trained in Islam and Islamic law) who are the interpreters of Islam's sciences and doctrines and laws and the chief guarantors of continuity in the spiritual and intellectual history of the Islamic community [syn: {ulema}, {ulama}].

Ulexite (n.) (Min.) A mineral occurring in white rounded crystalline masses. It is a hydrous borate of lime and soda.

Uliginose (a.) Alt. of Uliginous

Uliginous (a.) Muddy; oozy; slimy; also, growing in muddy places. [R.] -- Woodward.

Uliginous (a.) Growing in wet or swampy ground.

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

Ullage (n.) The amount that a container (as a wine bottle or tank) lacks of being full.

Ullage, () com. law. When a cask is gauged, what it wants of being full is called ullage.

Ullet (n.) (Zool.) A European owl (Syrnium aluco) of a tawny color; -- called also uluia.

Ullmannite (n.) (Min.) A brittle mineral of a steel-gray color and metallic luster, containing antimony, arsenic, sulphur, and nickel.

Ulluco (n.) (Bot.) See Melluco.

Compare: Melluco

Melluco (n.) (Bot.) A climbing plant ({Ullucus officinalis) of the Andes, having tuberous roots which are used as a substitute for potatoes.

Ulmaceous (a.) (Bot.) Of or pertaining to a suborder of urticaceous plants, of which the elm is the type.

Ulmate (n.) (Chem.) A salt of ulmic acid.

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

Compaare: Humin

Humin (n.) [L. humus the earth, ground.] (Chem.) A bitter, brownish yellow, amorphous substance, extracted from vegetable mold, and also produced by the action of acids on certain sugars and carbohydrates; -- called also humic acid, ulmin, gein, ulmic or geic acid, etc.

Ulmin (n.) A brown amorphous substance found in decaying vegetation. Cf. Humin. [Formerly written ulmine.]

Ulmus (n.) (Bot.) A genus of trees including the elm.

Ulmus (n.) Type genus of family Ulmaceae; deciduous trees having simple serrate leaves; widely distributed in temperate regions [syn: Ulmus, genus Ulmus].

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

Ulna (n.) (O. Eng. Law) A An ell; also, a yard. -- Burrill.

Ulna (n.) The inner and longer of the two bones of the human forearm [syn: ulna, elbow bone].

Ulnage (n.) (Old Eng. Law) Measurement by the ell; alnage.

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

Ulnar (a.) Relating to or near the ulna.

Ulnaria (n. pl. ) of Ulnare

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

Compare: Cuneiform

Cuneiform, Cuniform (n.) 楔形文字；【解】楔狀骨 The wedge-shaped characters used in ancient Persian and Assyrian inscriptions. -- I. Taylor (The Alphabet).

Cuneiform, Cuniform (n.) (Anat.) One of the three tarsal bones supporting the first, second third metatarsals. They are usually designate as external, middle, and internal, or ectocuniform, mesocuniform, and entocuniform, respectively.

Cuneiform, Cuniform (n.) (Anat.) One of the carpal bones usually articulating with the ulna; -- called also pyramidal and ulnare.

Cuneiform (a.) (Not comparable) 楔形文字的 Having the form of a wedge; wedge-shaped, especially with a tapered end.

Cuneiform (a.) Written in the cuneiform writing system.

Cuneiform (n.) (pl. Cuneiforms) An ancient Mesopotamian writing system, adapted within several language families, originating as pictograms in Sumer around the 30th century BC, evolving into more abstract and characteristic wedge shapes formed by a blunt reed stylus on clayen tablets.

Cuneiform (n.) (Anatomy) A wedge-shaped bone, especially a cuneiform bone.

Ulodendron (n.) (Paleon.) A genus of fossil trees.

Ulonata (n. pl.) [NL.] (Zool.) A division of insects nearly equivalent to the true Orthoptera.

Ulotrichan (a.) (Anthropol.) Of or pertaining to the Ulotrichi. -- n. One of the Ulotrichi.

Ulotrichan (n.) One of the Ulotrichi.

Ulotrichi (n. pl.) (Anthropol.) The division of mankind which embraces the races having woolly or crispy hair. Cf. Leiotrichi.

Ulotrichous (a.) (Anthropol.) Having woolly or crispy hair; -- opposed to leiotrichous.

Ulster (n.) A long, loose overcoat, worn by men and women, originally made of frieze from Ulster, Ireland.

Ulster (n.) A historic division of Ireland located in the northeastern part of the island; six of Ulster's nine counties are in Northern Ireland.

Ulster (n.) Loose long overcoat of heavy fabric; usually belted.

Ulster -- U.S. County in New York

Population (2000): 177749

Housing Units (2000): 77656

Land area (2000): 1126.477233 sq. miles (2917.562516 sq. km)

Water area (2000): 34.283190 sq. miles (88.793051 sq. km)

Total area (2000): 1160.760423 sq. miles (3006.355567 sq. km)

Located within: New York (NY), FIPS 36

Location: 41.856325 N, 74.146620 W
Headwords:

Ulster

Ulster, NY

Ulster County

Ulster County, NY

Ulterior (a.) 隱祕不明的，別有用心的；在那邊的；較遠的；日後的，將來的；進一步的 Situated beyond, or on the farther side; thither; -- correlative with hither.

Compare: Correlative

Correlative (a.) 相關的Having a mutual relationship; corresponding.

‘Rights, whether moral or legal, can involve correlative duties.’

Correlative (a.) [Grammar] (Of words such as neither and nor) corresponding to each other and regularly used together.

Correlative (n.) 有關係的物（或人）；關聯詞 A word or concept that has a mutual relationship with another word or concept.

‘The child's right to education is a correlative of the parent's duty to send the child to school.’

Ulterior (a.) Further; remoter; more distant; succeeding; as, ulterior demands or propositions; ulterior views; what ulterior measures will be adopted is uncertain.

Ulterior motive, Ulterior object or Ulterior aim, A motive, object or aim beyond that which is avowed.

Ulterior (n.) Ulterior side or part. [R.] -- Coleridge.

Ulterior (a.) Lying beyond what is openly revealed or avowed (especially being kept in the background or deliberately concealed); "subterranean motives for murder"; "looked too closely for an ulterior purpose in all knowledge"- Bertrand Russell [syn: subterranean, subterraneous, ulterior].

Ulterior (a.) Beyond or outside an area of immediate interest; remote; "a suggestion ulterior to the present discussion"; "without...any purpose, immediate or ulterior" -- G.B.Shaw.

Ulterior (a.) Coming at a subsequent time or stage; "without ulterior argument"; "the mood posterior to" [syn: later(a), ulterior, posterior].

Ulteriorly (adv.) 未表明地；隱蔽地；遙遠地；未來地 More distantly or remotely.

Ulteriorly (adv.) In an ulterior manner.

Ultima (n.) (Gram. & Pros.) The last syllable of a word.

Ultima (a.) Most remote; furthest; final; last.

Ultima ratio [L.], The last reason or argument; the last resort.

Ultima Thule. [L.] See Thule.

Ultima (n.) The last syllable in a word.

Ultimate (a.) Farthest; most remote in space or time; extreme; last; final.

My harbor, and my ultimate repose. -- Milton.

Many actions apt to procure fame are not conductive to this our ultimate happiness. -- Addison.

Ultimate (a.) Last in a train of progression or consequences; tended toward by all that precedes; arrived at, as the last result; final.

Those ultimate truths and those universal laws of thought which we can not rationally contradict. -- Coleridge.

Ultimate (a.) Incapable of further analysis; incapable of further division or separation; constituent; elemental; as, an ultimate constituent of matter.

{Ultimate analysis} (Chem.), Organic analysis. See under {Organic}.

{Ultimate belief}. See under {Belief}.

{Ultimate ratio} (Math.), The limiting value of a ratio, or that toward which a series tends, and which it does not pass.

Syn: Final; conclusive. See {Final}.

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