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Word of the Day for Friday, July 16, 2010undercast \UHN-der-kast\, noun: 1. Something viewed from above through another medium, as of clouds viewed from an airplane. His skin was white, but the sweater brought out the undercast of pale, pale green so that his skin was either pearl white or a dreamlike green depending on how the light hit it. Crewmen later reported having seen explosions and fires through breaks in the undercast, but their fleeting observations were none too precise and the strike photos were too poor to be of much use. Undercast derives from meteorology and aeronautics jargon. | |||||||||
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