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Thrice twin; having three pairs of leaflets.

Threefold; thrice-paired. Blount.

Carrying or bearing upon the back. Tergiferous plants (Bot.), plants which bear their seeds on the back of their leaves, as ferns.

The dorsal portion of an arthromere or somite of an articulate animal. See Illust. under Coleoptera.

To shift; to practice evasion; to use subterfuges; to shuffle. [R.] Bailey.

The act of tergiversating; a shifting; shift; subterfuge; evasion. Writing is to be preferred before verbal conferences, as being freer from passions and tergiversations. Abp. Bramhall.

One who tergiversates; one who suffles, or practices evasion.

The back of an animal.

To get under or beneath; also, to understand. [Obs.] R. of Gloucester.

To blind below; to gird round the bottom. They used helps, undergirding the ship. Acts xxvii. 17.

Applied under the glaze, that is, before the glaze, that is, before the glaze is put on; fitted to be so applied; -- said of colors in porcelain painting.

cted to; to bear up against; to pass through; to endure; to suffer; to sustain; as, to undergo toil and fatigue; to undergo pain, grief, or anxiety; to undergothe operation of amputation; food in the stomach undergoes the process of digestion. Certain to undergo like doom. Milton.

A lower or inferio

To gore underneath.

A gown worn under another, or under some other article of dress. An undergown and kirtle of pale sea-green silk. Sir W. Scott.

Of or pertaining to an undergraduate, or the body of undergraduates.

The position or condition of an undergraduate.

To groan beneath. [Obs.] Earth undergroaned their high-raised feet. Chapman.

e beneath the surface of the ground; subterranean space. A spirit raised from depth of underground. Shak.

Wildcat insurance.