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.

One who undertakes; one who engages in any project or business.

The act of one who undertakes, or engages in, any project or business.

Assistant to a tapster.

Taxed too little, or at a lower rate than others.

The tenant of a tenant; one who holds lands or tenements of a tenant or lessee.

Something that is inferior and of little worth.

The under or after part of the day; undermeal; evening.

A low or subdued tone or utterance; a tone less loud than usual.

imp. of Undertake.

The current that sets seaward near the bottom when waves are breaking upon the shore.

An assistant treasurer.

To turn upside down; to subvert; to upset.

The act of undervaluing; a rate or value not equal to the real worth.

A low rate or price; a price less than the real worth; undervaluation.

One who undervalues.

The lower or second verse.

An undershirt.

See Underlooker.

That which is worn under the outside clothing; underclothes.

To undervalue.

imp. of Undergo.

To interest less than anticipated; to be dull to (a person).

Less interesting than expected; dull.

One of the posterior wings of an insect.

Weak in intellect; half-witted; silly.

Small trees and bushes that grow among large trees; coppice; underbrush; -- formerly used in the plural.

Inferior or subordinate work; petty business.

One who underworks.

The lower of inferior world; the world which is under the heavens; the earth.

To practice the business of insuring; to take a risk of insurance on a vessel or the like.

One who underwrites his name to the conditions of an insurance policy, especially of a marine policy; an insurer.

The business of an underwriter,

To subject to the yoke; to make subject.

To fail to deserve.

One of no merit; one who is nor deserving or worthy.

Having no artful, ulterior, or fraudulent purpose; sincere; artless; simple.

Indestructible.

Not determinable; indeterminable.

Nor determinate; not settled or certain; indeterminate.

Indetermination.

To free from possession by a devil or evil spirit; to exorcise.

Absence or want of devotion.

imp. of Undo.

Not differentiated; specifically (Biol.), homogenous, or nearly so; -- said especially of young or embryonic tissues which have not yet undergone differentiation (see Differentiation, 3), that is, which show no visible separation into their different structural parts.

Generated by water.

Indigestible.

To put off; to lay aside, as a garment.

Unworthy.

One of a class of fabled female water spirits who might receive a human soul by intermarrying with a mortal.

Unprovided with a diocese; having no diocese.

Indirect.

Not directed; not guided; left without direction.

Indirectly.

Want of discernment.

To keep close or secret.

Indiscreet.

Indispensable.

Not dispensed.

Indisposition; disinclination.

Indisputable.

Making no distinctions; not discriminating; impartial.

Indistinctly.

Not divided; not separated or disunited; unbroken; whole; continuous; as, plains undivided by rivers or mountains.

Indivisible.