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A lower fringe; a fringe underneath something. Broad-faced, with underfringe of russet beard. Tennyson.

To supply with less than enough; to furnish insufficiently. Collier.

To cover as under a furrow; to plow in; as, to underfurrow seed or manure.

To mar or destroy the perfection of. [Obs.] Sir P. Sidney.

Want of perfection; imperfection. [Obs.] Wyclif.

Not powerful; weak. Cowley.

An arrangement of a woman's back hair over a cushion or frame in some resemblance to a waterfall.

A flood of water; an inundation.

Any bird that frequents the water, or lives about rivers, lakes, etc., or on or near the sea; an aquatic fowl; -- used also collectively.

See Weever.

Adapted to excite wonder or admiration; surprising; strange; astonishing.

A calculating table or frame; an instrument for performing arithmetical calculations by balls sliding on wires, or counters in grooves, the lowest line representing units, the second line, tens, etc. It is still employed in China.

schatus), of the East and West Indies and Northern Africa, whose musky seeds are used in perfumery and to flavor coffee; -- sometimes called musk mallow.

The quality or state of being able; power to perform, whether physical, moral, intellectual, conventional, or legal; capacity; skill or competence in doing; sufficiency of strength, skill, resources, etc.; -- in the plural, faculty, talent. Then the disciples, every man according to his ability, determined to send reli…

Wearing away; superficial waste. Tyndall.

l qualifications, or strong mental powers; showing ability or skill; talented; clever; powerful; as, the ablest man in the senate; an able speech. No man wrote abler state papers. Macaulay.

The principles or measures of abolitionists. Wilberforce.

Manner of approaching or accosting; address. Chesterfield.

Arrest of development of any organ, so that it remains an imperfect formation or is absorbed.

Imperfectly formed or developed; rudimentary; sterile; as, an abortive organ, stamen, ovule, etc.