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To undervalue. [Obs.]

imp. of Undergo.

banded with red and black or other conspicuous colors. Many of the species are called red underwing.

Weak in intellect; half-witted; silly. [R.] Bp. Kennet.

Small trees and bushes that grow among large trees; coppice; underbrush; -- formerly used in the plural. Shrubs and underwoods look well enough while they grow within the shade of oaks and cedars. Addison.

To injure by working secretly; to destroy or overthrow by clandestine measure; to undermine. But thou from loving England art so far, That thou hast underwrought his lawful king. Shak.

One who underworks.

The lower of inferior world; the world which is under the heavens; the earth. That overspreads (with such a reverence) This underworld. Daniel.

To write under something else; to subscribe. What addition and change I have made I have here underwritten. Bp. Sanderson.

One who underwrites his name to the conditions of an insurance policy, especially of a marine policy; an insurer.

The business of an underwriter,

To subject to the yoke; to make subject. Wyclif.

To fail to deserve. [Obs.] Milton.

One of no merit; one who is nor deserving or worthy. [Obs.] Shak.

Having no artful, ulterior, or fraudulent purpose; sincere; artless; simple.

Indestructible.

Not determinable; indeterminable. Locke.

Nor determinate; not settled or certain; indeterminate. South. -- Un`de*ter"mi*nate*ness, n. Dr. H. More.

Indetermination. Sir M. Hale.

; to exorcise. [Obs.] They boy having gotten a habit of counterfeiting . . . would not be undeviled by all their exorcisms. Fuller.