It will but skin and film the ulcerous place.
Shak.
— Ul"cer*ous*ly, adv. — Ul"cer*ous*ness, n.
{ Ul"cus*cle (?), Ul*cus"cule (?), } n. [L. ulcusculum, dim. of ulcus.
See Ulcer.] A little ulcer. [R.]
U"le (?), n. [Sp.] (Bot.) A Mexican and Central American tree
(Castilloa elastica and C. Markhamiana) related to the breadfruit tree.
Its milky juice contains caoutchouc. Called also ule tree.
U*le"ma (?), n. [Ar. 'ulem the wise or learned men, pl. of 'lim wise,
learned, fr. alima to know.] A college or corporation in Turkey
composed of the hierarchy, namely, the imams, or ministers of religion,
the muftis, or doctors of law, and the cadis, or administrators of
justice.
U"lex*ite (?), n. [After a German chemist.] (Min.) A mineral occurring
in white rounded crystalline masses. It is a hydrous borate of lime and
soda.
{ U*lig"i*nose` (?), U*lig"i*nous (?), } a. [L. uliginosus, fr. uligo,
-inis, moisture, fr. uvere to be moist.] Muddy; oozy; slimy; also,
growing in muddy places. [R.] Woodward.
Ul"lage (?; 48), n. [OF. eullage, ovillage, the filling up of a cask,
fr. ouillier, oillier, euillier, to fill a wine cask; properly, to add
oil to prevent evaporation, as to a flask that is nearly full, fr. OF.
oile oil. See Oil.] (Com.) The amount which a vessel, as a cask, of
liquor lacks of being full; wantage; deficiency.
Ul"let (?), n. [Cf. OF. hullote, E. howlet.] (Zoöl.) A European owl
(Syrnium aluco) of a tawny color; — called also uluia.
Ull"mann*ite (?), n. [So named after J. C. Ullman, a German chemist.]
(Min.) A brittle mineral of a steel-gray color and metallic luster,
containing antimony, arsenic, sulphur, and nickel.
Ul*lu"co (?), n. (Bot.) See Melluc&?;o.
Ul*ma"ceous (?), a. [L. ulmus an elm.] (Bot.) Of or pertaining to a
suborder of urticaceous plants, of which the elm is the type.
Ul"mate (?), n. (Chem.) A salt of ulmic acid.
Ul"mic (?), a. [L. ulmus an elm: cf. F. ulmique.] (Chem.) Pertaining to
ulmin; designating an acid obtained from ulmin.
Ul"min (?), n. [L. ulmus an elm: cf. F. ulmine.] (Chem.) A brown
amorphous substance found in decaying vegetation. Cf. Humin. [Formerly
written ulmine.]
||Ul"mus (?), n. [L., an elm.] (Bot.) A genus of trees including the
||elm.
||
||Ul"na (?), n. [L., the elbow. See Ell.] 1. (Anat.) The postaxial bone
||of the forearm, or branchium, corresponding to the fibula of the hind
||limb. See Radius.
||
2. (O. Eng. Law) An ell; also, a yard. Burrill.
Ul"nage (?), n. [See Ulna, and cf. Alnage.] (Old Eng. Law) Measurement
by the ell; alnage.
Ul"nar (?), a. (Anat.) Of or pertaining to the ulna, or the elbow; as,
the ulnar nerve.
||Ul*na"re (?), n.; pl. Ulnaria (#). [NL. See Ulna.] (Anat.) One of the
||bones or cartilages of the carpus, which articulates with the ulna
||and corresponds to the cuneiform in man.
||
||U`lo*den"dron (?), n. [NL., fr. Gr. &?;, for &?; whole + &?; tree.]
||(Paleon.) A genus of fossil trees.
||
||U`lo*na"ta (?), n. pl. [NL.] (Zoöl.) A division of insects nearly
||equivalent to the true Orthoptera.
||
U*lot"ri*chan (?), a. (Anthropol.) Of or pertaining to the Ulotrichi. —
n. One of the Ulotrichi.
||U*lot"ri*chi (?), n. pl. [NL., fr. Gr. &?;, &?;, woolly-haired; &?;
||woolly + &?;, &?;, hair.] (Anthropol.) The division of mankind which
||embraces the races having woolly or crispy hair. Cf. Leiotrichi.
||
U*lot"ri*chous (?), a. (Anthropol.) Having woolly or crispy hair; —
opposed to leiotrichous.
Ul"ster (?), n. A long, loose overcoat, worn by men and women,
originally made of frieze from Ulster, Ireland.
Ul*te"ri*or (?), a. [L., comp. of ultra, ultro, beyond, on the other
side, properly cases of an old adjective, formed with a comparative
suffix, which is akin to OL. uls beyond, L. olim formerly, hereafter,
orig., at that time, ille that, OL. olle, ollus. Cf. Outrage.] 1.
Situated beyond, or on the farther side; thither; - - correlative with
hither.
2. Further; remoter; more distant; succeeding; as, ulterior demands or
propositions; ulterior views; what ulterior measures will be adopted is
uncertain.
Ulterior object or aim, an object or aim beyond that which is avowed.
Ul*te"ri*or, n. Ulterior side or part. [R.] Coleridge.
Ul*te"ri*or*ly, adv. More distantly or remotely.
||Ul"ti*ma (?), a. [L., fem. ultimus last.] Most remote; furthest;
||final; last.
||
Ultima ratio [L.], the last reason or argument; the last resort. —
Ultima Thule. [L.] See Thule.
Ul"ti*ma, n. [L., fem. of ultimus last.] (Gram. & Pros.) The last
syllable of a word.
Ul"ti*mate (?), a. [LL. ultimatus last, extreme, fr. L. ultimare to
come to an end, fr. ultimus the farthest, last, superl. from the same
source as ulterior. See Ulterior, and cf. Ultimatum.] 1. Farthest; most
remote in space or time; extreme; last; final.
My harbor, and my ultimate repose.
Milton.
Many actions apt to procure fame are not conductive to this our
ultimate happiness.
Addison.
2. Last in a train of progression or consequences; tended toward by all
that precedes; arrived at, as the last result; final.
Those ultimate truths and those universal laws of thought which we can
not rationally contradict.
Coleridge.
3. Incapable of further analysis; incapable of further division or
separation; constituent; elemental; as, an ultimate constituent of
matter.
Ultimate analysis (Chem.), organic analysis. See under Organic. —
Ultimate belief. See under Belief. — Ultimate ratio (Math.), the
limiting value of a ratio, or that toward which a series tends, and
which it does not pass.
Syn. — Final; conclusive. See Final.
Ul"ti*mate (?), v. t. & i. [imp. & p. p. Ultimated (?); p. pr. & vb. n.
Ultimating.] 1. To come or bring to an end; to eventuate; to end. [R.]