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by marking on thin paper, or other transparent substance, the lines of a pattern placed beneath; also, the copy thus producted.

To cause to turn; to bend. [R.] Not far beneath i' the valley as she trends Her silver stream. W. Browne.

To draw in outline, as with a pen; to delineate or distinguish without color, as arms, etc., in heraldry. They forget that they are in the statutes: . . . there they are tricked, they and their pedigrees. B. Jonson.

Full; also, trim; neat. [Prov. Eng. & Scot.] To sit on a horse square and trig. Brit. Quart. Rev.

The quality or state of being trig; smartness; neatness. Their spars had no man-of-war trigness. Kane.

To make trim; to put in due order for any purpose; to make right, neat, or pleasing; to adjust. The hermit trimmed his little fire. Goldsmith.

The quality or state of being trim; orderliness; compactness; snugness; neatness.

turn so as to bring the bottom side on top; as, to turn up the trump. (b) To bring from beneath to the surface, as in plowing, digging, etc. (c) To give an upward curve to; to tilt; as, to turn up the nose. -- To turn upon, to retort; to throw back; as, to turn the arguments of an opponent upon himself. -- To turn up…

the American mourning dove (see under Dove), and the Australian turtledove (Stictopelia cuneata).

. See ruddy maids, Some taught with dexterous hand to twirl the wheel. Dodsley. No more beneath soft eve's consenting star Fandango twirls his jocund castanet. Byron.

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

Below or lower, in place or position, with the idea of being covered; lower than; beneath; -- opposed to over; as, he stood under a tree; the carriage is under cover; a cellar extends under the whole house. Fruit put in bottles, and the bottles let down into wells under water, will keep long. Bacon. Be gathered now, ye…

To bind beneath. Fairfax.

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

Shrubs, small trees, and the like, in a wood or forest, growing beneath large trees; undergrowth.

To cast under or beneath.

A stratum of clay lying beneath a coal bed, often containing the roots of coal plants, especially the Stigmaria.

Running beneath the surface; hidden. [R.] "Undercurrent woe." Tennyson.

To dig under or beneath; to undermine. [Obs.] Wyclif.

The filling below or beneath; the under part of a building. Sir H. Wotton.