The Canada porcupine. See Porcupine.

The bearded seal.

A beautiful North American butterfly (Basilarchia astyanax syn. Limenitis astyanax). Its wings are nearly black with red and blue spots and blotches. Called also red-spotted purple.

Of or pertaining to St. Ursula, or the order of Ursulines; as, the Ursuline nuns.

A genus of Carnivora including the common bears.

A genus of plants including the common nettles. See Nettle, n.

Of or pertaining to a natural order (Urticaceae) of plants, of which the nettle is the type. The order includes also the hop, the elm, the mulberry, the fig, and many other plants.

Resembling nettles; -- said of several natural orders allied to urticaceous plants.

The nettle rash, a disease characterized by a transient eruption of red pimples and of wheals, accompanied with a burning or stinging sensation and with itching; uredo.

To sting with, or as with, nettles; to irritate; to annoy.

The act or process of whipping or stinging with nettles; -- sometimes used in the treatment of paralysis.

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

A very large, powerful, and savage extinct bovine animal (Bos urus or Bos primigenius) anciently abundant in Europe. It appears to have still existed in the time of Julius Caesar. It had very large horns, and was hardly capable of domestication. Called also, ur, ure, and tur.

The crab-eating ichneumon (Herpestes urva), native of India. The fur is black, annulated with white at the tip of each hair, and a white streak extends from the mouth to the shoulder.

The persons speaking, regarded as an object; ourselves; -- the objective case of we. See We.

Capable of being used.

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

Using; accustomed.

A Turkish tribe which about the close of the 15th century conquered, and settled in, that part of Asia now called Turkestan.

To be wont or accustomed; to be in the habit or practice; as, he used to ride daily; -- now disused in the present tense, perhaps because of the similarity in sound, between /use to,/ and /used to./

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.

In a useful manner.

The quality or state of being useful; utility; serviceableness; advantage.

Having, or being of, no use; unserviceable; producing no good end; answering no valuable purpose; not advancing the end proposed; unprofitable; ineffectual; as, a useless garment; useless pity.

One who uses.

To introduce or escort, as an usher, forerunner, or harbinger; to forerun; -- sometimes followed by in or forth; as, to usher in a stranger; to usher forth the guests; to usher a visitor into the room.

The act of ushering, or the state of being ushered in.

The office or position of an usher; ushership; also, ushers, collectively.

Destitute of an usher.

The office of an usher; usherdom.

Denoting usual or customary action.

A genus of lichens, most of the species of which have long, gray, pendulous, and finely branched fronds. Usnea barbata is the common bearded lichen which grows on branches of trees in northern forests.

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

Ourselves.

The act of burning, or the state of being burned.

Having the quality of burning.

Blackened as if burned.

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

The acquisition of the title or right to property by the uninterrupted possession of it for a certain term prescribed by law; -- the same as prescription in common law.

The right of using and enjoying the profits of an estate or other thing belonging to another, without impairing the substance.

Of or pertaining to a usufruct; having the nature of a usufruct.

Usurious.

Usury.

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

Usurping; encroaching.

Marked by usurpation; usurping.

Usurpation.

One who usurps; especially, one who seizes illegally on sovereign power; as, the usurper of a throne, of power, or of the rights of a patron.

In a usurping manner.

The first note in Guido's musical scale, now usually superseded by do. See Solmization.

That which is used; an instrument; an implement; especially, an instrument or vessel used in a kitchen, or in domestic and farming business.

Gestation in the womb from conception to birth; pregnancy.

Pertaining to both the uterus and the vagina.

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

An extensive tribe of North American Indians of the Shoshone stock, inhabiting Colorado, Utah, New Mexico, Arizona, and adjacent regions. They are subdivided into several subordinate tribes, some of which are among the most degraded of North American Indians.

Any species of large West Indian rodents of the genus Capromys, or Utia. In general appearance and habits they resemble rats, but they are as large as rabbits.

Of, pertaining to, or designating, a subdivision of the Trenton Period of the Lower Silurian, characterized in the State of New York by beds of shale.

Profitable; useful.

One who holds the doctrine of utilitarianism.

The doctrine that the greatest happiness of the greatest number should be the end and aim of all social and political institutions.

The act of utilizing, or the state of being utilized.

To make useful; to turn to profitable account or use; to make use of; as, to utilize the whole power of a machine; to utilize one's opportunities.

See Utas.

Outlawry.

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

An inhabitant of Utopia; hence, one who believes in the perfectibility of human society; a visionary; an idealist; an optimist.

The ideas, views, aims, etc., of a Utopian; impracticable schemes of human perfection; optimism.

An Utopian; an optimist.

Utopian; ideal.

A Utopian.

One who receives the eucharist in both kinds; esp., one of a body of Hussites who in the 15th century fought for the right to do this. Called also Calixtines.

A genus of aquatic flowering plants, in which the submersed leaves bear many little utricles, or ascidia. See Ascidium,

Resembling a bladder; swollen like a bladder; inflated; utricular.

Resembling a bladder; utricular; utriculate.

A little sac, or bag; a utricle; especially, a part of the membranous labyrinth of the ear. See the Note under Ear.

Capable of being uttered.

The last extremity; the end; death; outrance.

One who utters.

Uttermost.

Incapable of being uttered.

In an utter manner; to the full extent; fully; totally; as, utterly ruined; it is utterly vain.

Further; outer; utter.

The utmost; the highest or greatest degree; the farthest extent.

The quality or state of being utter, or extreme; extremity; utmost; uttermost.

A small pulpy or juicy fruit containing several seeds and having a thin skin, as a grape.

The bearberry.

A conserve made of grapes.

The posterior pigmented layer of the iris; -- sometimes applied to the whole iris together with the choroid coat.

Resembling a grape.

Pertaining to, or obtained from, grapes; specifically, designating an organic acid, C7H8O3 (also called pyrotritartaric acid), obtained as a white crystalline substance by the decomposition of tartaric and pyrotartaric acids.

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.

Pertaining to, or designating, an acid which is obtained as a white crystalline substance by the action of ammonia on pyrotartaric acid.

See Euphroe.

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

Of or pertaining to a uvula.

An instrument for removing the uvula.

The operation of removing the uvula.

Inflammation of the uvula.

Ouvarovite.

Dotingly fond of, or servilely submissive to, a wife; uxorious; also, becoming a wife; pertaining to a wife.

Of or pertaining to uxoricide; tending to uxoricide.

Excessively fond of, or submissive to, a wife; being a dependent husband.

A Burman measure of twelve miles.

The dealfish.

In a vacant manner; inanely.

To make vacant; to leave empty; to cease from filling or occupying; as, it was resolved by Parliament that James had vacated the throne of England; the tenant vacated the house.

An order of court by which a proceeding is set aside or annulled.

A cow house, dairy house, or cow pasture.

Vaccinia.

Of or pertaining to vaccinia or vaccination.

To inoculate with the cowpox by means of a virus, called vaccine, taken either directly or indirectly from cows; now, generally, to administer (by injection or otherwise) any vaccine with the objective of rendering the recipient immune to an infectious disease. One who has been thus immunized by vaccination is said to be vaccinated against a particular disease. One may be thus immunized (vaccinated) also by oral ingestion or inhalation of a vaccine.

The act, art, or practice of vaccinating, or inoculating with the cowpox, in order to prevent or mitigate an attack of smallpox. Cf. Inoculation.

One who, or that which, vaccinates.

The virus of vaccinia used in vaccination.

See Point, n., 26.

Cowpox; vaccina. See Cowpox.

A vaccinator.

A genus of ericaceous shrubs including the various kinds of blueberries and the true cranberries.

A keeper of stock or cattle; a herdsman.

An inclosure for cows.