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- English Word Utas Definition The eighth day after any term or feast; the octave; as, the utas of St. Michael.
- English Word Utas Definition Hence, festivity; merriment.
- English Word Utensil Definition That which is used; an instrument; an implement; especially, an instrument or vessel used in a kitchen, or in domestic and farming business.
- English Word Uterine Definition Of or instrument to the uterus, or womb.
- English Word Uterine Definition Born of the same mother, but by a different father.
- English Word Uterogestation Definition Gestation in the womb from conception to birth; pregnancy.
- English Word Uterovaginal Definition Pertaining to both the uterus and the vagina.
- English Word Uterus Definition The organ of a female mammal in which the young are developed previous to birth; the womb.
- English Word Uterus Definition A receptacle, or pouch, connected with the oviducts of many invertebrates in which the eggs are retained until they hatch or until the embryos develop more or less. See Illust. of Hermaphrodite in Append.
- English Word Utes Definition 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.
- English Word Uti possidetis Definition The basis or principle of a treaty which leaves belligerents mutually in possession of what they have acquired by their arms during the war.
- English Word Uti possidetis Definition A species of interdict granted to one who was in possession of an immovable thing, in order that he might be declared the legal possessor.
- English Word Utia Definition 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.
- English Word Utica Definition 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.
- English Word Utile Definition Profitable; useful.
- English Word Utilitarian Definition Of or pertaining to utility; consisting in utility; /iming at utility as distinguished from beauty, ornament, etc.; sometimes, reproachfully, evincing, or characterized by, a regard for utility of a lower kind, or marked by a sordid spirit; as, utilitarian narrowness; a utilitarian indifference to art.
- English Word Utilitarian Definition Of or pertaining to utilitarianism; supporting utilitarianism; as, the utilitarian view of morality; the Utilitarian Society.
- English Word Utilitarian Definition One who holds the doctrine of utilitarianism.
- English Word Utilitarianism Definition The doctrine that the greatest happiness of the greatest number should be the end and aim of all social and political institutions.
- English Word Utilitarianism Definition The doctrine that virtue is founded in utility, or that virtue is defined and enforced by its tendency to promote the highest happiness of the universe.