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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.

In an understanding manner; intelligibly; with full knowledge or comprehension; intelligently; as, to vote upon a question understandingly; to act or judge understandingly. The gospel may be neglected, but in can not be understandingly disbelieved. J. Hawes.

To state or represent less strongly than may be done truthfully.

The act of understating, or the condition of being understated; that which is understated; a statement below the truth.

To supply insufficiently with stock. A. Smith.

imp. & p. p. of Understand.

A petty fellow; an inferior agent; an underling. This was going to the fountain head at once, not applying to the understrappers. Goldsmith.

Becoming an understrapper; subservient. [R.] Sterne.

The layer, or stratum, of earth on which the mold, or soil, rests; subsoil.

To underline or underscore. Swift.

To study, as another actor's part, in order to be his substitute in an emergency; to study another actor's part.

A suit worn under another suit; a suit of underclothes.

Capable of being undertaken; practicable.

to take in hand; to begin to perform; to set about; to attempt. To second, or oppose, or undertake The perilous attempt. Milton.