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- English Word Ursine Definition Of or pertaining to a bear; resembling a bear.
- English Word Urson Definition The Canada porcupine. See Porcupine.
- English Word Ursuk Definition The bearded seal.
- English Word Ursula Definition A beautiful North American butterfly (Basilarchia, / Limenitis, astyanax). Its wings are nearly black with red and blue spots and blotches. Called also red-spotted purple.
- English Word Ursuline Definition One of an order of nuns founded by St. Angela Merici, at Brescia, in Italy, about the year 1537, and so called from St. Ursula, under whose protection it was placed. The order was introduced into Canada as early as 1639, and into the United States in 1727. The members are devoted entirely to education.
- English Word Ursuline Definition Of or pertaining to St. Ursula, or the order of Ursulines; as, the Ursuline nuns.
- English Word Ursus Definition A genus of Carnivora including the common bears.
- English Word Urtica Definition A genus of plants including the common nettles. See Nettle, n.
- English Word Urticaceous Definition 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.
- English Word Urtical Definition Resembling nettles; -- said of several natural orders allied to urticaceous plants.
- English Word Urticaria Definition 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.
- English Word Urticate Definition To sting with, or as with, nettles; to irritate; to annoy.
- English Word Urticated Definition of Urticate
- English Word Urticating Definition of Urticate
- English Word Urtication Definition The act or process of whipping or stinging with nettles; -- sometimes used in the treatment of paralysis.
- English Word Urubu Definition The black vulture (Catharista atrata). It ranges from the Southern United States to South America. See Vulture.
- English Word Urus Definition A very large, powerful, and savage extinct bovine animal (Bos urus / 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.
- English Word Urva Definition 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.
- English Word Us Definition of I
- English Word Us Definition The persons speaking, regarded as an object; ourselves; -- the objective case of we. See We.
- English Word Usable Definition Capable of being used.
- English Word Usage Definition The act of using; mode of using or treating; treatment; conduct with respect to a person or a thing; as, good usage; ill usage; hard usage.
- English Word Usage Definition Manners; conduct; behavior.
- English Word Usage Definition Long-continued practice; customary mode of procedure; custom; habitual use; method.
- English Word Usage Definition Customary use or employment, as of a word or phrase in a particular sense or signification.
- English Word Usage Definition Experience.
- English Word Usager Definition One who has the use of anything in trust for another.
- English Word Usance Definition Use; usage; employment.
- English Word Usance Definition Custom; practice; usage.
- English Word Usance Definition Interest paid for money; usury.