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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 get under or beneath; also, to understand. [Obs.] R. of Gloucester.

To gore underneath.

To groan beneath. [Obs.] Earth undergroaned their high-raised feet. Chapman.

The place or space beneath the surface of the ground; subterranean space. A spirit raised from depth of underground. Shak.

To join below or beneath; to subjoin. Wyclif.

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

To lay beneath; to put under.

To lie under; to rest beneath; to be situated under; as, a stratum of clay underlies the surface gravel.

Lying under or beneath; hence, fundamental; as, the underlying strata of a locality; underlying principles.

To excavate the earth beneath, or the part of, especially for the purpose of causing to fall or be overthrown; to form a mine under; to sap; as, to undermine a wall. A vast rock undermined from one end to the other, and a highway running through it. Addison.

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

h a building is underpinned; the material and construction used for support, introduced beneath a wall already constructed.

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

To prop from beneath; to put a prop under; to support; to uphold. Underprop the head that bears the crown. Fenton.

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

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

The soil beneath the surface; understratum; subsoil.

With difficulty; scarcely. See Uneath. [Written also unethe, unneth, unnethe, unnethes, etc.] [Obs.] Chaucer.