Definition of inferior

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Inferior (a.) On the side of a flower which is next the bract; anterior.

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Whigling :: Whigling (n.) A petty or inferior Whig; -- used in contempt.
Famulist :: Famulist (n.) A collegian of inferior rank or position, corresponding to the sizar at Cambridge..
Concubine :: Concubine (n.) A wife of inferior condition; a lawful wife, but not united to the man by the usual ceremonies, and of inferior condition. Such were Hagar and Keturah, the concubines of Abraham; and such concubines were allowed by the Roman laws. Their children were not heirs of their father..
Ascend :: Ascend (v. i.) To rise, in a figurative sense; to proceed from an inferior to a superior degree, from mean to noble objects, from particulars to generals, from modern to ancient times, from one note to another more acute, etc.; as, our inquiries ascend to the remotest antiquity; to ascend to our first progenitor..
Underservant :: Underservant (n.) An inferior servant.
Base-court :: Base-court (n.) An inferior court of law, not of record..
Bohea :: Bohea (n.) Bohea tea, an inferior kind of black tea. See under Tea..
Interoperculum :: Interoperculum (n.) The postero-inferior opercular bone, in fishes..
Equal :: Equal (n.) One not inferior or superior to another; one having the same or a similar age, rank, station, office, talents, strength, or other quality or condition; an equal quantity or number; as, If equals be taken from equals the remainders are equal..
Base :: Base (a.) Alloyed with inferior metal; debased; as, base coin; base bullion..
Reason :: Reason (n.) The faculty or capacity of the human mind by which it is distinguished from the intelligence of the inferior animals; the higher as distinguished from the lower cognitive faculties, sense, imagination, and memory, and in contrast to the feelings and desires. Reason comprises conception, judgment, reasoning, and the intuitional faculty. Specifically, it is the intuitional faculty, or the faculty of first truths, as distinguished from the understanding, which is called the discursive o
Catadromous :: Catadromous (a.) Having the lowest inferior segment of a pinna nearer the rachis than the lowest superior one; -- said of a mode of branching in ferns, and opposed to anadromous..
Yield :: Yield (v. i.) To give place, as inferior in rank or excellence; as, they will yield to us in nothing..
Degenerate :: Degenerate (v. i.) To be or grow worse than one's kind, or than one was originally; hence, to be inferior; to grow poorer, meaner, or more vicious; to decline in good qualities; to deteriorate..
Subscribe :: Subscribe (v. i.) To yield; to admit one's self to be inferior or in the wrong.
Subdilated :: Subdichotomy (n.) A subordinate, or inferior, division into parts; a subdivision..
Below :: Below (prep.) Inferior to in rank, excellence, dignity, value, amount, price, etc.; lower in quality..
Procedendo :: Procedendo (n.) A writ by which a cause which has been removed on insufficient grounds from an inferior to a superior court by certiorari, or otherwise, is sent down again to the same court, to be proceeded in there..
Equal :: Equal (a.) Agreeing in quantity, size, quality, degree, value, etc.; having the same magnitude, the same value, the same degree, etc.; -- applied to number, degree, quantity, and intensity, and to any subject which admits of them; neither inferior nor superior, greater nor less, better nor worse; corresponding; alike; as, equal quantities of land, water, etc. ; houses of equal size; persons of equal stature or talents; commodities of equal value..
Zooid :: Zooid (n.) An animal in one of its inferior stages of development, as one of the intermediate forms in alternate generation..
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