English English Dictionary

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 branchium, corresponding to the fibula of the hind limb. See Radius.

An ell; also, a yard.

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.

of Ulnare

A genus of fossil trees.

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.