What reverence he did throw away on slaves! Wooing poor craftsmen with the craft of smiles, And patient underbearing of his fortune. Shakspeare. UNDERCLERK', n. s. Under and clerk. A clerk subordinate to the principal clerk. Coleby, one of his under-swearers, was tried for robbing the treasury, where he was an underclerk. Swift. UNDERDO', v. n. Under and do. To act below one's abilities. You overact, when you should underdo; none. A little call yourself again, and think. Ben Jonson. They carried him to a house of a principal officer, who with no more civility, though with much more business than those underfellows had shewed, in captious manner put interrogatories unto him. Sidney. UNDERFIL'LING, n. s. Under and fill. Lower part of an edifice. To found our habitation firmly, first examine the bed of earth upon which we will build, and then the underfillings, or substructions, as the ancients called it. UNDERFONG', v. a. To take in hand. Obsolete. Wolton. Under and Sax. Fangan. Thou, Menalcas, that by thy treachery Didst underfong my lady to wexe so light, Shouldst well be known for such thy villany. Spenser. Under and furnish. UNDERFURNISH, v. a. To supply with less than enough. Can we suppose God would underfurnish man for the state he designed him, and not afford him a soul large enough to pursue his happiness? Collier. UNDERGIRD', v. a. Under and gird. To bind below; to round the bottom. When they had taken it up, they used helps, undergirding the ship. Acts xxvii. 17. UNDERGO', v. a. Under and go. To suffer; sustain; endure evil; pass through: to be subject to. I have moved certain Romans To undergo with me an enterprize Of honourable, dangerous consequence. Shakspeare. Claudio undergoes my challenge; and either I must shortly hear from him, or I will subscribe him a coward. Id. With mind averse, he rather underwent His people's will, then gave his own consent. Dryden. Bread put into the stomach of a dying man will undergo the alteration that is merely the effect of heat. Arbuthnot. UN'DERGROUND, n. s. Under and ground. Subterraneous space. They have promised to shew your highness A spirit raised from depth of underground. Shakspeare. Washed by streams Milton. From underground, the liquid ore he drains As one continued brake, the undergrowth She underhand dealt with the principal men of that country, that they should persuade the king to make Plangus his associate. Sidney. It looks as if I had desired him underhand to write so ill against me; but I have not bribed him to do me this service. Dryden. Wood is still working underhand to force his halfpence upon us. Swift. I should take it as a very great favour, from some of my underhand detractors, if they would break all measures with me. Addison. UNDERIV'ED, adj. From derived. Not bor rowed. He should be warned who are like to undermine him, and who to serve him. Locke. UN'DERMOST, adj. This is a kind of superiative, anomalously formed from under. Lowest in place. Using oil of almonds, we drew up with the undermost stone a much greater weight. Boyle. It happens well for the party that is undermost when a work of this nature falls into the hands of those who content themselves to attack their principles, without exposing their persons. Addison. UNDERNEATH', adv. & prep. Compounded from under and neath, of which we still retain the comparative nether, but in adverbial sense use beneath. In the lower place; below: under; beneath. What is, hath been; what hath been, shall ensue ; And nothing underneath the sun is new. Sandys. Pray God she prove not masculine ere long If underneath the standard of the French She carry armour, as she hath begun. Underneath this stone doth lie As much beauty as could die; Which in life did harbour give To more virtue than could live. The monster caught in open day, Inclosed, and in despair to fly away, Howls horrible from underneath. UNDEROFFICER, n. s. Shakspeare. Ben Jonson. Dryden. Under and officer. An inferior officer; one in subordinate authority. This certificate of excommunication by bishops, of all others, is most in use; and would be more so, were it not for the manifold abuses about its execution committed by underofficers. Ayliffe. UNDEROGATORY, adj. Not derogatory. Of our happiness the apostle gives a negative description; and, to create in us apprehensions underogatory from what we shall possess, exalts them above all that we can fancy. Boyle. UN'DERPART, n.s. Under and part. Subordinate or unessential part. The English will not bear a thorough tragedy, but are pleased that it should be lightened with underparts of mirth. Dryden. UNDERPETTICOAT, n.s. Under and petticoat. The petticoat worn next the body. They go to bed as tired with doing nothing, as I after quilting a whole under-petticoat. Spectator. UNDERPIN', v. a. Under and pin. To prop; to support. Victors, to secure themselves against disputes of that kind, underpin their acquest jure belli. UN'DERPLOT, n. s. Under and plot. A concealed plot. In a tragi-comedy, there is to be but one main design; and though there be an underplot, yet it is sub servient to the chief fable. Dryden. Fent. Thou that art used t' attend the royal throne, And underprop the head that bears the crown. UNDERPROPORTIONED, adj. Under and proportion. Having too little proportion. To be haughty, and to make scanty and underpro portioned returns of civility, plainly tells people, they must be very mannerly. Collier on Pride. UNDERPUL’LER, n.s. Under and puller. Inferior or subordinate puller. The mystery of seconds and thirds is such a masterters in destruction are such implicit mortals as are not piece, that no description can reach. These underpul to be matched. Collier. UNDERRATE', n. s. From the verb. A price less than is usual. To give all will befit thee well, The useless brute is from Newmarket brought, Cowley. Dryden. UNDERSAY', v.n. Under and say. To say Obso by way of derogation or contradiction. lete. They say, they con to heaven the highway; They never set foot on that same trode, retary. An inferior or subordinate secretary. UNDERSELL', v. a. Bacon. Under and sell. To defeat, by selling for less; to sell cheaper than another. at ten. Their stock being rated at six in the hundred, they may, with great gain, undersell us, our stock being rated Child's Discourse of Trade. UNDERSERVANT, n. s. Under and servant. A servant of the lower class. Besides the nerves, the bones, as underservants, with the muscles, are employed to raise him up. Grew's Cosmologia. Το UNDERSET, v. a. Under and set. UNDERSETTING, n. s. prop; to support: a UNDERSET TER. S support or prop. The four corners thereof had undersetters. 1 Kings vii, 30. The merchant-adventurers, being a strong company, and well underset with rich men, and good order, heid out bravely. Bacon's Henry VII. Their undersettings, or pedestals, are, in height, a third part of the column. Wotton's Architecture. UNDERSHER'IFF, n. s. Under and sheriff. The deputy of the sheriff. The cardinals of Rome call all temporal business, of wars and embassages, shirreria, which is undersheriffries; as if they were but matters for underdersheriffries do more good than their high speculations. sheriffs and catchpoles; though many times those un Bacon. UNDERSHOT', part. adj. Under and shoot. Moved by water passing under it. The imprisoned water payeth the ransom of driving an undershot wheel for his enlargement. Carew's Survey of Cornwall. UNDERSONG', n. s. Under and song. Chorus; burthen of a song. So ended she; and all the rest around To her redoubled that her undersong. Spenser The challenge to Damætas shall belong; Menalcas shall sustain his undersong: Each in his turn your tuneful numbers bring. Dry. UN'DERSTRAPPER, n. s. Under and strap. A petty fellow; an inferior agent. Every understrapper perked up, and expected a regiment, or his son must be a major. Swift. UNDERTAKE', v. a. & v. n. Under and UNDERTAKER, n. s. take. Pret. unUNDERTAKING. dertook; part. pass. undertaken. To attempt; engage in or with; assume; have the charge of; venture; hazard; promise the noun substantives both correspond: an undertaker is also used particularly for one who engages to build, or to conduct a funeral. O Lord, 1 am oppressed, undertake for me. To the waterside I must conduct your grace, Then give my charge up to Sir Nicholas Vaux, Who undertakes you to your end. Id. Henry VIII. Mighty men they are called; which sheweth a strength surpassing others and men of renown, that is, of great undertaking and adventurous actions. Raleigh's History of the World. : Clar. Milton. Antrim was naturally a great undertaker. I undertook alone to wing the abyss. If this seem too great an undertaking for the humour of our age, then such a sum of money ought to be ready for taking off all such pieces of cloth as shall be brought in. Temple. Fiercer than cannon, and than rocks more hard, The English undertake the unequal war. Dryden. If the curious search the hills after rains, I dare undertake they will not lose their labour. Woodward's Natural History. While rival undertakers hover round, And with his spade the sexton marks the ground. Young. UNDERVALUE, v. a. & n. s. UNDERVALUER, N. 8. UNDERVALUATION. Under and value. To rate low or lightly; treat as of little worth little worth; low price: one who so rates things or persons: undervaluation is a rate not equal to worth. Her name is Portia, nothing undervalued To Cato's daughter. Shakspeare. There is often failing by an undervaluation; for in divers children their ingenerate powers are of slow disclosure. Wotton. An undervaluer of money was Sir Henry Wotton. Walton. I write not this with the least intention to undervalue the other parts of poetry. Dryden. Schooling Luther, an undervaluing term, would make one think that Erasmus had a mean opinion of him. Atterbury. UN'DERWOOD, n. s. Under and wood. The low trees that grow among the timber. When you fell underwood, sow haws and sloes. Mortimer. Under and S work. Subor UN'DERWORK,,n. s. & v. a. Į dinate business; petty affairs: to work at a low price or by scanty means: an inferior or subordinate workman. Nor would they hire under-workmen to employ their parts and learning to disarm their mother of all. Thou from loving England art so far, That thou hast underwrought its lawful king, To cut off the sequence of posterity. Lesley. Shakspeare. Those that are proper for war, fill up the laborious part of life, and carry on the underwork of the nation. Addison. UNDERWRITE', v. a. Under and write. To write under something else. What addition and change I have made, I have here Sanderson. underwritten. UNDESCRIBED, adj. Not described. They urge, that God left nothing in his word undescribed, whether it concerned the worship of God, or outward polity. Hooker. Not, merited; not obtained by merit, or default: the adverb and other derivatives cor UNDESERVED, adj. UNDESERVEDLY, ddv. UNDESERVER, n. s. UNDESERVING, adj. respond. This victory obtained with great, and truly not undeserved, honour to the two princes, the whole estates, with one consent, gave the crown to Musidorus. Sidney. I was carried to mislike, then to hate; lastly, to destroy this son, undeserving of destruction. Id. He which speaketh no more than edifieth is undeservedly reprehended for much speaking. Hooker. You see how men of merit are sought after; the undeserver may sleep, when the man of action is called on. Shakspeare. It exerts itself promiscuously towards the deserving and the undeserving, if it relieves alike the idle and the indigent. Addison. : UNDESIGN'ED, adj. Į Not intended; not UNDESIGN'ING. purposed not acting with set purpose, or with fraud. He looks upon friendship, gratitude, and sense of honour, as terms to impose upon weak, undesigning minds. South. Where you conduct find, Blackmore. UNDISCIPLINED, adj. Not subdued to regularity and order. A gallant man had rather fight to great disadvantages in the field, in an orderly way, than skuffle with an undisciplined rabble. King Charles. Divided from those climes where art prevails, Undisciplined by precepts of the wise, Our inborn passions will not brook controul; We follow nature. Philips. UNDISCORD'ING, adj. Not disagreeing; not jarring in music. We on earth, with undiscording voice, May rightly answer that melodious noise; As once we did, till disproportioned sin Jarred against nature's chime. UNDISCOVERED, adj. Į UNDISCOVERABLE. out: not to be found out. Milton. Not seen; not descried; not found Coming into the falling of a way, which led us into a place, of each side whereof men might easily keep themselves undiscovered, I was encompassed suddenly by a great troop of enemies. Sidney. The future but a length behind the past. Time glides with undiscovered haste; Dryden. He was to make up his accounts, and by an easy, undiscoverable cheat, he could provide against the inpending distress. Rogers. UNDISCREET', adj. Not wise; imprudent. If thou be among the undiscreet, observe the time. Ecclus. xxvii, Though oft repulsed, again They rally undismayed. Philips. He aimed a blow against his undismayed adversary. Arbuthnot. UNDISOBLIG'ING, adj. Inoffensive. All this he would have expatiated upon, with connexions of the discourses, and the most easy, undisobliging transitions. Broome. UNDISPERS'ED, adj. Not scattered. We have all the redolence of the perfumes we burn upon his altars; the smoke doth vanish ere it can reach the sky, and, whilst it is undispersed, it but clouds it. Boyle. UNDISPOS'ED, adj. Not bestowed. The employments were left undisposed of, to keep alive the hopes of impatient candidates. Swift. UNDISPUTED, adj. Incontrovertible; evi dent. UNDISTRACTED, adj. Not perplexed UNDISTRACTEDLY, adv. by contrariety of UNDISTRACTEDNESS, n. s. thoughts or desires: the adverb and noun substantive corresponding. When Enoch had walked with God, he was so far from being tired with that lasting assiduity, that he admitted him to a more immediate and more undistracted communion with himself. Boyle. St. Paul tells us that there is difference betwixt married and single persons; the affections of the latter being at liberty to devote themselves more undistractedly to God. Id. gated. The best actors in the world for tragedy, pastoral, scene undividable, or poem unlimited. Shakspeare. Love is not divided between God and God's enemy: we must love God with all our heart; that is, give him a whole and undivided affection. Taylor. UNDIVULG’ED, adj. Secret; not promulLet the great gods Find out their enemies now. Tremble, thou wretch, That hast within thee undivulged crimes Unwhipped of justice. UNDO', v. a. UNDOING, adj. & n. s. UNDONE', adj. Shakspeare. Pret. undid; part. pass. undone. From do. To ruin; bring to destruc tion; loose; unravel; reveal: undoing is ruining; destructive also the destruction or ruin incurred: undone, not done or performed; ruined. They false and fearful do their hands undo; Brother, his brother; friend doth friend forsake. Sidney. To the utter undoing of some, many things by strictness of law may be done, which equity and honest meaning forbiddeth. Hooker. done, the issue of it being so proper. Do you smell a fault?-I cannot wish the fault unShakspeare. We seem ambitious God's whole work t' undo; Of nothing he made us, and we strive, too, To bring ourselves to nothing back. Where, with like haste, through several ways they run, Some to undo, and some to be undone. Her own teeth would undo the knot, And let all go that she had got. Donne. Denham. Waller. |