Emily Dickinson Lexicon

UN-DROSS'Y, a.

Free from dross or recrement. Pope.

UN-DROWN'ED, a.

Not drowned. Shak.

UN-DU'BI-TA-BLE, a.

Not to be doubted; unquestionable. [But the word now used is indubitable.]

UN-DUE', a.

1. Not due; not yet demandable by right; as, a debt, note or bond undue.
2. Not right; not legal; improper; as, an undue proceeding.
3. Not agreeable to a rule or standard, or to duty; not proportioned; excessive; as, an undue regard to the externals of religion; an undue attachment to forms; an undue rigor in the execution of law.

UN-DUKE', v.t.

To deprive of dukedom. Swift.

UN'DU-LA-RY, a. [L. undula, a little wave.]

Playing like waves; waving. Brown.

UN'DU-LATE, or UN'DU-LA-TED, a.

Wavy; waved obtusely up and down, near the margin, as a leaf or corol. Lee. Smith.

UN'DU-LATE, v.i.

To vibrate; to move back and forth; to wave; as, undulating air. Pope.

UN'DU-LATE, v.t. [L. undula, a little wave; unda, a wave; Low L. undulo.]

To move back and forth, or up and down, as waves; to cause to vibrate. Breath vocalized, that is, vibrated and undulated. Holder.

UN'DU-LA-TING, ppr.

1. Waving; vibrating.
2. adj. Wavy; rising and falling.

UN'DU-LA-TING-LY, adv.

In the form of waves.

UN-DU-LA'TION, n. [from undulate.]

1. A waving motion or vibration; as, the undulations of a fluid, of water or air; the undulations of sound. The undulations of a fluid are propagated in concentric circles.
2. In medicine, a particular uneasy sensation of an undulatory motion in the heart. Cyc.
3. In music, a rattling or jarring of sounds, as when discordant notes are sounded together. It is called also beat. Cyc.
4. In surgery, a certain motion of the matter of an abscess when pressed, which indicates its fitness for opening. Cyc.

UN'DU-LA-TO-RY, a. [from undulate.]

Moving in the manner of waves; or resembling the motion of waves, which successively rise or swell and fall. We speak of the undulatory motion of water, of air or other fluid, and this undulatory motion of air is supposed to be the cause of sounds. This is sometimes called vibratory; but undulatory seems to be most correct.

UN-DULL', v.t.

To remove dullness or obscurity; to clear; to purify. [Not used.] Whitlock.

UN-DU'LY, adv.

1. Not according to duty or propriety.
2. Not in proper proportion; excessively. His strength was unduly exerted.

UN-DU'RA-BLE, a.

Not durable; not lasting. [Not in use.] Arnway.

UN-DUST', v.t.

To free from dust. [Not in use.] Mountague.

UN-DU'TE-OUS, a.

Not performing duty to parents and superiors; not obedient; as, an unduteous child, apprentice or servant. Dryden.

UN-DU'TI-FUL, a.

Not obedient; not performing duty; as an undutiful son or subject. Tillotson.

UN-DU'TI-FUL-LY, adv.

Not according to duty; in a disobedient manner. Dryden.

UN-DU'TI-FUL-NESS, n.

Want of respect; violation of duty; disobedience; as, the undutifulness of children or subjects.

UN-DY'ING, a.

1. Not dying; not perishing.
2. Not subject to death; immortal; as, the undying souls of men.

UN-EARN'ED, a. [unern'ed.]

Not merited by labor or services. Hoping heaven will bless Thy slighted fruits, and give thee bread unearned. Philips.

UN-EARTH', v.t.

To drive from the earth; to uncover.

UN-EARTH'ED, a. [unerth'ed.]

Driven from a den, cavern or burrow. Thomson.