Done (as bowling) with the arm not raised above the elbow, that is, not swung far out from the body; underhand. Cf. Over-arm and Round-Arm.

A garment worn below another.

To perform inefficiently, as a play; to act feebly.

Subordinate action; a minor action incidental or subsidiary to the main story; an episode.

A subordinate actor.

Shortage or deficiency in amount; shortfall.

A subordinate agent.

To aid clandestinely.

A vessel which receives the wort as it flows from the mashing tub.

To support; to endure.

One who supports or sustains; especially, at a funeral, one of those who bear the corpse, as distinguished from a bearer, or pallbearer, who helps to hold up the pall.

The lower ventral part of the abdomen of an animal, especially one that walks on four feet.

To bid less than, as when a contract or service is offered to the lowest bidder; to offer to contract, sell, or do for a lower price than.

To bind beneath.

Under the board, or table; hence, secretly; unfairly; underhand. See the Note under Aboveboard.

To brace, fasten, or bind underneath or below.

A lower branch.

Not thoroughly bred; ill-bred; as, an underbred fellow.

Shrubs, small trees, and the like, in a wood or forest, growing beneath large trees; undergrowth.

A subordinate or assistant builder.

Same as Substruction.

To buy at less than the real value or worth; to buy cheaper than.

To cast under or beneath.

A deputy chamberlain of the exchequer.

Same as Subchanter.

The lower chaps or jaw.

A charge that is less than is usual or suitable.

A stratum of clay lying beneath a coal bed, often containing the roots of coal plants, especially the Stigmaria.

A subordinate cliff on a shore, consisting of material that has fallen from the higher cliff above.

Clothes worn under others, especially those worn next the skin for warmth; underwear.

Same as Underclothes.

A coat worn under another; a light coat, as distinguished from an overcoat, or a greatcoat.

A lower conduit; a subterranean conduit.

Consumption of less than is produced; consumption of less than the usual amount.

A sly trick or device; as, an undercraft of authors.

To creep secretly or privily.

To support as a crest; to bear.

A subterranean room of any kind; esp., one under a church (see Crypt), or one used as a chapel or for any sacred purpose.

To cry aloud.

Running beneath the surface; hidden.

Cut away below.

Crafty, unfair, or underhand dealing; unfair practice; trickery.

To delve under.

To dig under or beneath; to undermine.

To dig an underground ditch or ditches in, so as to drain the surface; to underdrain; as, to underditch a field or a farm.

To do less thoroughly than is requisite; specifically, to cook insufficiently; as, to underdo the meat; -- opposed to overdo.

One who underdoes; a shirk.

p. p. of Underdelve.

To give an underdose or underdoses to; to practice giving insufficient doses.

To drain by forming an underdrain or underdrains in; as, to underdrain land.

Not dresses enough.

The act of underestimating; too low an estimate.

A subordinate party or faction.

An inferior or subordinate faculty.

An assistant farmer.

To feed with too little food; to supply with an insufficient quantity of food.

An underling; a mean, low fellow.

The filling below or beneath; the under part of a building.

To follow closely or immediately after.

To undertake; to take in hand; to receive.

A lower fringe; a fringe underneath something.

To supply with less than enough; to furnish insufficiently.

To cover as under a furrow; to plow in; as, to underfurrow seed or manure.

To get under or beneath; also, to understand.

To bind below; to gird round the bottom.

Applied under the glaze, that is, before the glaze is put on; fitted to be so applied; -- said of colors in porcelain painting.

To go or move below or under.

A lower or inferior god; a subordinate deity; a demigod.

To gore underneath.

A gown worn under another, or under some other article of dress.

Of or pertaining to an undergraduate, or the body of undergraduates.

The position or condition of an undergraduate.

To groan beneath.

Beneath the surface of the earth.

A grove of shrubs or low trees under taller ones.

Undergrown.

Of small stature; not grown to a full height or size.

That which grows under trees; specifically, shrubs or small trees growing among large trees.

To undermine.

By secret means; in a clandestine manner; hence, by fraud; unfairly; dishonorably.

Underhand; clandestine.

In an underhand manner.

To hang under or down; to suspend.

An assistant or deputy hangman.

A blockhead, or stupid person; a dunderhead.

To heave or lift from below.

To hew less than is usual or proper; specifically, to hew, as a piece of timber which should be square, in such a manner that it appears to contain a greater number of cubic feet than it really does contain.

Not entirely honest.

Resting on a track at the bottom, instead of being suspended; -- said of a sliding door.

Of an automobile body, suspended from the springs in such a manner that the frame of the chassis is below the axles, the object being to lower the center of gravity of the car.

The lower jaw.

To join below or beneath; to subjoin.

To keep under, or in subjection; to suppress.

A subordinate keeper or guardian.

An inferior kind.

A subordinate or dependent kingdom.

An assistant or subordinate laborer.

Laid or placed underneath; also, having something laid or lying underneath.

The inclination of a vein, fault, or lode from the vertical; a hade; -- called also underlie.

One who, or that which, underlays or is underlaid; a lower layer.

A prolific sort of apple, good for cider.

A lease granted by a tenant or lessee; especially, a lease granted by one who is himself a lessee for years, for any fewer or less number of years than he himself holds; a sublease.

To let below the value.

A tenant or lessee who grants a lease to another.

See Underlay, n., 1.

To mark a line below, as words; to underscore.

An inferior person or agent; a subordinate; a low-ranking employee.

The lower lip.

to load (a truck, etc.) with less than its full capacity; -- in certain circumstances, an inefficient use of resources.

A lock of wool hanging under the belly of a sheep.

A person who inspects a mine daily; -- called also underviewer.

Lying under or beneath; as, the underlying strata of a locality.

Insufficiently furnished with men; short-handed.

Having masts smaller than the usual dimension; -- said of vessels.

A master subordinate to the principal master; an assistant master.

One who is not a match for another.

The inferior, or after, part of the day; the afternoon.

To excavate the earth beneath, or the part of, especially for the purpose of causing to fall or be overthrown; to form a mine under; to sap; as, to undermine a wall.

One who undermines.

To serve, or minister to, in a subordinate relation.