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.

Low; base; abject; trodden down.

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.

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.

A subordinate or inferior ministry.

Suppressed or concealed mirth.

Bribed.

Lowest, as in place, rank, or condition.

The time between; the time between sunrise and noon; specifically, the third hour of the day, or nine o'clock in the morning, according to ancient reckoning; hence, mealtime, because formerly the principal meal was eaten at that hour; also, later, the afternoon; the time between dinner and supper.

Under; beneath; below.

A want of niceness; indelicacy; impropriety.

To receive; to perceive.

A subordinate officer.

A subordinate part.

To pay inadequately.

To peep under.

To peer under.

Not fully peopled.

imp. of Underpitch.

To lay stones, masonry, etc., under, as the sills of a building, on which it is to rest.

The act of one who underpins; the act of supporting by stones, masonry, or the like.

To fill underneath; to stuff.

To plant under; to plant (young trees) under an existing stand.

The act of underplaying.

A series of events in a play, proceeding collaterally with the main story, and subservient to it.

To weigh, estimate, or rate below desert; to undervalue.

One who possesses or holds anything subject to the superior of another.

To praise below desert.

To undervalue; to underestimate.

The production of less than is demanded or of less than the usual supply.

Containing less alcohol than proof spirit. See Proof spirit, under Spirit.

To prop from beneath; to put a prop under; to support; to uphold.

Of inadequate or inferior proportions; small; poor.

One who, or that which, underprops or supports.

To exert one's influence secretly.

One who underpulls.

To put or send under.

A price less than the value; as, to sell a thing at an underrate.

To reckon below what is right or proper; to underrate.

To run or pass under; to pass along and under, as a cable, for the purpose of taking it in, or of examining it.

To sail alongshore.

Inadequately equipped with sails.

Not fully saturated; imperfectly saturated.

To say by way of derogation or contradiction.

To draw a mark or line under; to underline.

A secretary who is subordinate to the chief secretary; an assistant secretary; as, an undersecretary of the Treasury.

To sell the same articles at a lower price than; to sell cheaper than.

An inferior servant.

Undercurrent.

One who, or that which, undersets or supports; a prop; a support; a pedestal.

Something set or built under as a support; a pedestal.

Under the usual shape or size; small; dwarfish.

A sheriff's deputy.

Undershrievalty.

A shirt worn next the skin, under another shirt; -- called also undervest.

To shoot short of (a mark).

Having the lower incisor teeth projecting beyond the upper ones, as in the bulldog.