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.

To affect with, or as with, an ulcer or ulcers.

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 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.

A genus of thin papery bright green seaweeds including the kinds called sea lettuce.

About.

To cast about; to consider; to ponder.

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.

Of or pertaining to an umbel; having the form of an umbel.

Bearing umbels; pertaining to an umbel; umbel-like; as, umbellate plants or flowers.

A small or partial umbel; an umbellule.

Pertaining to, or obtained from, certain umbelliferous plants; as, umbellic acid.

A plant producing an umbel or umbels.

A tasteless white crystalline substance, C9H6O3, found in the bark of a certain plant (Daphne Mezereum), and also obtained by the distillation of certain gums from the Umbelliferae, as galbanum, asafetida, etc. It is analogous to coumarin. Called also hydroxy-coumarin. Its strong fluorescence under ultraviolet light makes it useful in analytical biochemistry, as, for example, to detect phosphatase activity by hydrolysis of umbelliferyl phosphate.

Producing umbels. Of or pertaining to a natural order (Umbelliferae) of plants, of which the parsley, carrot, parsnip, and fennel are well-known examples.

A genus of deep-sea alcyonaria consisting of a cluster of large flowerlike polyps situated at the summit of a long, slender stem which stands upright in the mud, supported by a bulbous base.

An umbellet.

To color with umber; to shade or darken; as, to umber over one's face.

Of or pertaining to umber; like umber; as, umbery gold.

See Umbilical, 1.

Of or pertaining to an umbilicus, or umbilical cord; umbilic.

Depressed in the middle, like a navel, as a flower, fruit, or leaf; navel-shaped; having an umbilicus; as, an umbilicated smallpox vesicle. Supported by a stalk at the central point.

A slight, navel-like depression, or dimpling, of the center of a rounded body; as, the umbilication of a smallpox vesicle; also, the condition of being umbilicated.

The depression, or mark, in the median line of the abdomen, which indicates the point where the umbilical cord separated from the fetus; the navel; the belly button, in humans.

The entrails and coarser parts of a deer; hence, sometimes, entrails, in general.

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

Having a conical or rounded projection or protuberance, like a boss.

The conical shadow projected from a planet or satellite, on the side opposite to the sun, within which a spectator could see no portion of the sun's disk; -- used in contradistinction from penumbra. See Penumbra. The central dark portion, or nucleus, of a sun spot. The fainter part of a sun spot; -- now more commonly called penumbra.

Bearing something like an open umbrella.

Having the form of anything that serves to shade, as a tree top, an umbrella, and the like; specifically (Bot.), having the form of an umbrella; umbrella-shaped.

Shade; shadow; obscurity; hence, that which affords a shade, as a screen of trees or foliage.

Forming or affording a shade; shady; shaded; as, umbrageous trees or foliage.

To shade; to shadow; to foreshadow.

Of or pertaining to the shade or darkness; shadowy; unreal; secluded; retired.

Umbratic.

Suspicious; captious; disposed to take umbrage.

See Umber.

An umbrella.

A shade, screen, or guard, carried in the hand for sheltering the person from the rays of the sun, or from rain or snow. It is formed of silk, cotton, or other fabric, extended on strips of whalebone, steel, or other elastic material, inserted in, or fastened to, a rod or stick by means of pivots or hinges, in such a way as to allow of being opened and closed with ease. See Parasol.

See Umber, 4.

In ancient armor, a visor, or projection like the peak of a cap, to which a face guard was sometimes attached. This was sometimes fixed, and sometimes moved freely upon the helmet and could be raised like the beaver. Called also umber, and umbril.

Casting or making a shade; umbrageous.

An umbrere.