udometric (udometrik)

[ Uds blood, I'll lay him cro upon his coxscomb next day. Dekker and Webster , Northward Ho, ii. 1. 'udsfoott, interj . See ' sfoot . ' Udsfoot , I am monstrous angry with myself! Beau, and Fl., Coxcomb, iv. 8. ug (ug), n. [Also ugg; ug (ug), v. i. [Also ugg; And thare was so mekille folke dede in that bataile that ing. Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland, ix. [Humorous.] uglify (ug'li-fi), v. t.; pret. and pp. uglified, ppr. uglifying. [ It def our meth and uglyfyeth the skinne. Touchstone of Complexions , p. 117. ( Davies .) She [Mrs. Crewe) is certainly, in my eyes, the most completely a beauty of any woman I ever saw. She ugli jies everything near her. Mme. D'Arblay , Diary, III. 417. A protest against that uglifying proce by which women are coaxed into resignation to old age and death. IMG:content-1200.png:[blocks in formation] Scott, Quentin Durward, viii. ugly (ug'li), a. and n. [Early mod. E. also ougly; (ΜΕ. ugly, uggely, uglike, The heuen was vphalt, bot vgly ther vnder. Sir Gawayne and the Green Knight (E. E. T. S.), 1. 2078. Full ugly and ful ill is it, That was ful faire and fre he before. IMG:content-1201.png:[blocks in formation] 3. Disagreeable; offensive; suggestive of or threatening evil; a ociated with disadvantage or danger: as, an ugly rumor of defeat. Thay wern wakened al wrank that therin won lenged, Of on the vglokest vnhap that euer on erd suffred. Alliterative Poems (ed. Morris), ii. 892. Up came their murderous deeds of old, The grisly story Chaucer told, And many an ugly tale beside. O. W. Holmes , At the Pantomime. An ugly thrill spread from the spot he touched. R. L. Stevens on, Will o' the Mill. It was as ugly a little promenade as I ever undertook. J. W. De Forest , Harper's Mag., XXXV. 341. 4. Ill-natured; cro -grained; quarrelsome; ill conditioned. [U. S.] He was jest the cro est, ugliest critter that ever ye see, and he was ugly jest for the sake o' ugline . H. B. Stowe, Oldtown, p. 196. 5. Threatening painful or fatal consequences; dangerous: as, an ugly blow; an ugly cut.-An ugly customer, a troublesome or dangerous person. [Col loq.] He must have been a hard hitter if he boxed as he preached-what "The Fancy" would call "an ugly customer." Dr. J. Brown, Rab and His Friends, p. 6. The ugly man, of three persons concerned in garroting, the one who actually commits the crime, and whose escape is covered by the pals known as fore - stall and back stall. Also called nasty - man. [Thieves' slang.]=Syn. 1. Cro , sulky, morose, ill-tempered, crabbed. the sone wexe eclipte, and withdrewe his lighte, uggande Unsightly, homely, ill-favored, hard-favored, hideous.-4. for to see so mekille scheddynge of blude. MS . Lincoln A. i. 17, f. 10. ( Hall i well .) For tha paynes ar so felle and harde, Als yhe sal here be redd eftyrwarde, That ilk man may ugge bot he yhowng and awlde That heres thai me be reherced and tawlde. Hampole , MS. Bowes, p. 189. ( Hall i well .) II. n.; pl. uglies (-liz). 1. An ugly person. [Colloq.] There were all the beauties, and all the diamonds, and not a few of the uglies of London. Walpole, Letters, II. 422. Ujimyia 2. A shade for the eyes worn as an appendage to the bonnet by women about the middle of the nineteenth century. It was generally of the character of a calash, but smaller. See sunshade ( b ). "Cab-heads, hoods, what do you call 'em?" he asked of Mi Kicklebury. Indeed, she and her sister wore a couple of those blue silk over-bonnets which have lately call those hoods Uglies !" become the fashion...... "Those hoods," she said-"we Thackeray , Kickleburys on the Rhine. Plug ugly. A plug-ugly. uglyt (ug'li), v . t . [ ugly , a.] To make ugly; disfigure; uglify. [Rare.] It is impo ible I should love him; for his vices all ugly him over, as I may say. Richardson , Pamela, I. 220. Ugrian (ö'gri-an), a. [From the name of a Finnish tribe. Noting the Finno-Hungarian group of languages, comprising the tongues of the Lapps, Finns, and Magyars or Hungarians. It is a branch of the Ural-Altaic family. Ugric (ö'grik), a. Same as Ugrian.