The act of killing a tyrant.

Like a tyrant; tyrannical.

To subject to arbitrary, oppressive, or tyrannical treatment; to oppress.

Tyrannical; arbitrary; unjustly severe; despotic.

The government or authority of a tyrant; a country governed by an absolute ruler; hence, arbitrary or despotic exercise of power; exercise of power over subjects and others with a rigor not authorized by law or justice, or not requisite for the purposes of government.

To act like a tyrant; to play the tyrant; be to tyrannical.

To prey upon. See 4th Tire.

Same as 2nd tire, n., sense 5.

A native of Tyre.

A beginner in learning; one who is in the rudiments of any branch of study; a person imperfectly acquainted with a subject; a novice.

The state of being a tyro, or beginner; apprenticeship.

A translucent mineral of a green color and pearly or vitreous luster. It is a hydrous arseniate of copper.

The state of being a tyro, or beginner.

A white crystalline nitrogenous substance--amino acid--> present in small amount in the pancreas and spleen, and formed in large quantity from the decomposition of proteid matter by various means, -- as by pancreatic digestion, by putrefaction as of cheese, by the action of boiling acids, etc. Chemically, it consists of oxyphenol and amidopropionic acid, and by decomposition yields oxybenzoic acid, or some other benzol derivative.

A ptomaine discovered by Vaughan in putrid cheese and other dairy products, and producing symptoms similar to cholera infantum. Chemically, it appears to be related to, or identical with, diazobenzol.

Same as Tyrotoxicon.

A fluoride of the cerium metals occurring in hexagonal crystals of a pale yellow color. Cf. Fluocerite.

The black guillemot.

See Tithe.

See Tithing.

The emperor of Russia. See Czar.

The empress of Russia. See Czarina.

Same as Tsetse.

Having the form of the letter U; of valleys, resembling a broad U in cross profile.

Same as Ouakari.

Fruitful; copious; abundant; plentiful.

Fruitfulness; copiousness; abundance; plenty.

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

Ubiquitous.

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.

Quality or state of being ubiquitary, or ubiquitous.

One who exists everywhere.

Same as Ubiquist.

Existing or being everywhere, or in all places, at the same time; omnipresent.

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

A tribe of North American Indians belonging to the Creek confederation.

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.

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

In the Shetland and Orkney Islands, one who holds property by udal, or allodial, right.

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.

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

Having an udder or udders.

Destitute or deprived of an udder.

A rain gauge.

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

Ugly.

To disfigure; to make ugly.

In an ugly manner; with deformity.

The quality or state of being ugly.

To make ugly.

A Mongolian race, ancestors of the Finns.

Ugly; offensive; loathsome.

One of a certain description of militia among the Tartars.

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.

A foreigner; an outlander.

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

See Uhlan.

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

To ulcerate.

Capable of ulcerating.

Affected with, or as with, an ulcer or ulcers; as, an ulcerated sore throat.

The process of forming an ulcer, or of becoming ulcerous; the state of being ulcerated; also, an ulcer.

Of or pertaining to ulcers; as, an ulcerative process.

Ulcerous; ulcerated.

Having the nature or character of an ulcer; discharging purulent or other matter.

A little ulcer.

A Mexican and Central American tree (Castilloa elastica and Castilloa Markhamiana) related to the breadfruit tree. Its milky juice contains caoutchouc. Called also ule tree.

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.

A mineral occurring in white rounded crystalline masses. It is a hydrous borate of lime and soda.

Muddy; oozy; slimy; also, growing in muddy places.

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

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

A brittle mineral of a steel-gray color and metallic luster, containing antimony, arsenic, sulphur, and nickel.

See Melluc/o.

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

A salt of ulmic acid.

Pertaining to ulmin; designating an acid obtained from ulmin.

A brown amorphous substance found in decaying vegetation. Cf. Humin.

A genus of trees including the elm.

The postaxial bone of the forearm, or brachium, corresponding to the fibula of the hind limb. See Radius.

Measurement by the ell; alnage.

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

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

A genus of fossil trees.

Resembling a scar; scarlike.

A division of insects nearly equivalent to the true Orthoptera.

Of or pertaining to the Ulotrichi. One of the Ulotrichi.

The division of mankind which embraces the races having woolly or crispy hair. Cf. Leiotrichi.

Having woolly or crispy hair; -- opposed to leiotrichous.

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

Ulterior side or part.

More distantly or remotely.

The last syllable of a word.

To come or bring to an end or issue; to eventuate; to end.

As a final consequence; at last; in the end; as, afflictions often tend to correct immoral habits, and ultimately prove blessings.

State of being ultimate; that which is ultimate, or final; ultimatum.

A final proposition, concession, or condition; especially, the final propositions, conditions, or terms, offered by either of the parties in a diplomatic negotiation; the most favorable terms that a negotiator can offer, the rejection of which usually puts an end to the hesitation.

Ultimate; final.

The last stage or consequence; finality.

The act of taking vengeance; revenge.

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

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.

Having the properties exhibited by gases under very low pressures (one millionth of an atmosphere or less). Matter under this condition, which has been termed the fourth state of matter, is sometimes called radiant matter.

Outrage.

The principles of those who advocate extreme measures, as radical reform, and the like.

One who pushes a principle or measure to extremes; an extremist; a radical; an ultra.

A blue pigment formerly obtained by powdering lapis lazuli, but now produced in large quantities by fusing together silica, alumina, soda, and sulphur, thus forming a glass, colored blue by the sodium polysulphides made in the fusion. Also used adjectively.

One who resides beyond the mountains, especially beyond the Alps; a foreigner.

The principles of those within the Roman Catholic Church who maintain extreme views favoring the pope's supremacy; -- so used by those living north of the Alps in reference to the Italians; -- rarely used in an opposite sense, as referring to the views of those living north of the Alps and opposed to the papal claims. Cf. Gallicanism.

One who upholds ultramontanism.

Being beyond the world, or beyond the limits of our system.

Situated beyond or below the red rays; as, the ultrated rays of the spectrum, which are less refrangible than the red.

Situated beyond, or outside of, the tropics; extratropical; also, having an excessively tropical temperature; warmer than the tropics.

Lying outside the visible spectrum at its blue-violet end; -- said of light more refrangible (i. e. having a shorter wavelength) than the extreme violet rays of the visible spectrum. Electromagnetic radiation with wavelengths shorter than those of ultrviolet light are not usually considered as light waves, but are classified differently. The ultraviolet region of the electromagnetic spectrum is generally considered as comprising those electromagnetic emissions with wavelengths lying between those of visible light and those of X-rays, i. e. between 4000 Angstroms and 100 Angstroms.

Outside the zodiac; being in that part of the heavens that is more than eight degrees from the ecliptic; as, ultrazodiacal planets, that is, those planets which in part of their orbits go beyond the zodiac.

Spontaneous; voluntary.

A genus of owls including the great gray owl (Ulula cinerea) of Arctic America, and other similar species. See Illust. of Owl.

Howling; wailing.

To howl, as a dog or a wolf; to wail; as, ululating jackals.

A howling, as of a dog or wolf; a wailing.