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To shoot short of (a mark).

Moved by water passing beneath; -- said of a water wheel, and opposed to overshot; as, an undershot wheel.

The office or position of an undersheriff.

A low shrub; a woody plant of low stature.

Partly shrublike.

Closed from beneath. Undershut valve (Mach.), a valve which shuts by being lifted against a seat facing downward. Knight.

The lower or lowest side of anything. Paley.

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.