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.
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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.
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.
The office or position of an undersheriff.
A low shrub; a woody plant of low stature.
Partly shrublike.
Closed from beneath.
The lower or lowest side of anything.
To write one's name at the foot or end of, as a letter or any legal instrument.
Of a size less than is common.
Undertapster.
A petticoat; the foundation skirt of a draped dress.
The lower region of the sky.
A sleeve of an under-garment; a sleeve worn under another,
The soil beneath the surface; understratum; subsoil.
p. p. of Undersell.
The burden of a song; the chorus; the refrain.
Having spars smaller than the usual dimension; -- said of vessels.
To spend less than.
A sphere which is smaller than, and in its movements subject to, another; a satellite.
To raise with a spar, or piece of wood, used as a lever.
Of or pertaining to the kitchen, or the servants' quarters; hence, subordinate; menial.
The basement or cellar.
To have the use of the intellectual faculties; to be an intelligent being.
Capable of being understood; intelligible.
One who understands, or knows by experience.
The act of one who understands a thing, in any sense of the verb; knowledge; discernment; comprehension; interpretation; explanation.
In an understanding manner; intelligibly; with full knowledge or comprehension; intelligently; as, to vote upon a question understandingly; to act or judge understandingly.
To state or represent less strongly than may be done truthfully.
The act of understating, or the condition of being understated; that which is understated; a statement below the truth.
To supply insufficiently with stock.
imp. p. p. of Understand.
A petty fellow; an inferior agent; an underling.
Becoming an understrapper; subservient.
The layer, or stratum, of earth on which the mold, or soil, rests; subsoil.
To underline or underscore.
One who studies another's part with a view to assuming it in an emergency.
A suit worn under another suit; a suit of underclothes.
Capable of being undertaken; practicable.
To take upon one's self, or assume, any business, duty, or province.
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