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To write one's name at the foot or end of, as a letter or any legal instrument. The undersigned, the person whose name is signed, or the persons whose names are signed, at the end of a document; the subscriber or subscribers.

Of a size less than is common.

Undertapster. [Obs.]

A petticoat; the foundation skirt of a draped dress.

The lower region of the sky. Floating about the undersky. Tennyson.

A sleeve of an under-garment; a sleeve worn under another,

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.

The soil beneath the surface; understratum; subsoil.

p. p. of Undersell.

Accompanying strain; subordinate and underlying meaning; accompaniment; undertone. In the very [poetry] there often an undersong of sense which none beside the poetic mind . . . can comprehend. Landor.

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.

o raise with a spar, or piece of wood, used as a lever. [Obs.] Give me a staff that I may underspore. Chaucer.

Of or pertaining to the kitchen, or the servants' quarters; hence, subordinate; menial. [Obs.]

The basement or cellar.

ehended the meaning or intention of; to have knowledge of; to comprehend; to know; as, to understand a problem in Euclid; to understand a proposition or a declaration; the court understands the advocate or his argument; to understand the sacred oracles; to understand a nod or a wink. Speaketh [i. e., speak thou] so pla…

Capable of being understood; intelligible. Chillingworth.

One who understands, or knows by experience. [R.] Dryden.

Knowing; intelligent; skillful; as, he is an understanding man.