UNDERDRAIN
UN'DERDRAIN, noun A drain or trench below the surface of the ground.UNDERDRA'IN, verb transitive To drain by cutting a deep channel below the surface.
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American Dictionary of the English Language, Noah Webster, 1828.
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UNDERFACTION
UNDERFAC'TION, noun A subordinate faction.
UNDERFARMER
UNDERF'ARMER, noun A subordinate farmer.
UNDERFELLOW
UNDERFEL'LOW, noun A mean sorry wretch.
UNDERFILLING
UNDERFIL'LING, noun The lower part of a building.
UNDERFONG
UNDERFONG', verb intransitive To take in hand. obsolete
UNDERFOOT
UN'DERFOOT, adverb Beneath.UN'DERFOOT, adjective Low; base; abject; trodden down.
UNDERFURNISH
UNDERFUR'NISH, verb transitive To supply with less than enough.
UNDERFURNISHED
UNDERFUR'NISHED, participle passive Supplied with less than enough.
UNDERFURNISHING
UNDERFUR'NISHING, participle present tense Furnishing with less than enough.
UNDERFURROW
UNDERFUR'ROW, adverb In agriculture, to sow underforrow, is to plow in seed. This phrase is applied to other operations, in which something is covered by the furrow-slice.
UNDERGIRD
UNDERGIRD', verb transitive [See Gird.] To bind below; to gird round the bottom. Acts 27:1.
UNDERGO
UNDERGO', verb transitive1. To suffer; to endure something burdensome or painful to the body or the mind; as, to undergo toil and fatigue; to undergo pain; to undergo grief or a...
UNDERGOING
UNDERGO'ING, participle present tense Suffering; enduring.
UNDERGONE
UNDERGONE, participle passive undergawn'. Borne; suffered; sustained; endured. Who can tell how many evils and pains he has undergone?
UNDERGRADUATE
UNDERGRAD'UATE, noun A student or member of a university or college, who has not taken his first degree.
UNDERGROUND
UNDERGROUND', noun A place or space beneath the surface of the ground.UN'DERGROUND, adjective Being below the surface of the ground; as an underground story or apartment.UNDERGR...
UNDERGROWTH
UN'DERGROWTH, noun That which grows under trees; shrubs or small trees growing among large ones.
UNDERHAND
UN'DERHAND, adverb1. By secret means; in a clandestine manner.2. By fraud; by fraudulent means.UN'DERHAND, adjective Secret; clandestine; usually implying meanness or fraud, or ...
UNDERHANDED
UNDERHAND'ED, adjective Underhand; clandestine. [This is the word in more general use in the United States.
UNDERIVED
UNDERI'VED, adjective Not derived; not borrowed; not received from a foreign source.
UNDERKEEPER
UNDERKEE'PER, noun A subordinate keeper.
UNDERLABORER
UNDERLA'BORER, noun A subordinate workman
UNDERLAID
UNDERLA'ID, participle passive or adjective [from underlay.] Having something lying or laid beneath; as sand underlaid with clay.
UNDERLAY
UNDERLA'Y, verb transitive To lay beneath; to support by something laid under.
UNDERLEAF
UNDERLE'AF, noun A sort of apple good for cider.
UNDERLET
UNDERLET', verb transitive1. To let below the value.2. To let or lease, as a lessee or tenant; to let under a lease.It is a matter of much importance - that the tenant should ha...