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The act of binding underneath. [R.]

Situated underneath a muscle or muscles.

Growing underneath. [R.] Evelyn.

To write underneath, as one's name; to sign (one's name) to a document. [They] subscribed their names under them. Sir T. More.

Written below or underneath; as, iota subscript. (See under Iota.) Specifically (Math.), said of marks, figures, or letters (suffixes), written below and usually to the right of other letters to distinguish them; as, a, n, 2, in the symbols Xa, An, Y2. See Suffix, n., 2, and Subindex.

s or hinges, in such a way as to allow of being opened and closed with ease. See Parasol. Underneath the umbrella's oily shed. Gay.

To brace, fasten, or bind underneath or below. Cowper.

Under the feet; underneath; below. See Under foot, under Foot, n.

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

To gore underneath.

Laid or placed underneath; also, having something laid or lying underneath.

To support by some solid foundation; to place something underneath for support.

To fill underneath; to stuff. [Obs.] He drank and well his girdle underpight. Chaucer.

e lowing herd wind Gray. To wind out, to extricate one's self; to escape. Long struggling underneath are they could wind Out of such prison. Milton.