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

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.

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.

Beneath; below; in a lower place; under; as, a channel underneath the soil. Or sullen mole, that runneth underneath. Milton.

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

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.

Not friendly; not kind or benevolent; hostile; as, an unfriendly neighbor.

ited; general; all-reaching; all-pervading; as, universal ruin; universal good; universal benevolence or benefice. "Anointed universal King." Milton. The universal cause Acts not by partial, but by general laws. Pope. This universal frame began. Dryden.

Wanting in kindness, sympathy, benevolence, gratitude, or the like; cruel; harsh; unjust; ungrateful. He is unkind that recompenseth not; but he is most unkind that forgetteth. Sir T. Elyot. -- Un*kind"ly, adv. -- Un*kind"ness, n.

To destroy by an explosion from beneath. (c) To explode; as, the boiler blew up. (d) To reprove angrily; to scold. [Slang] -- To bring up. See under Bring, v. t. -- To come up with. See under Come, v. i. -- To cut up. See under Cut, v. t. & i. -- To draw up. See under Draw, v. t. -- To grow up, to grow to maturity.…

To heave or lift up from beneath; to raise. Milton.

The benefit or profit of lands and tenements. Use imports a trust and confidence reposed in a man for the holding of lands. He to whose use or benefit the trust is intended shall enjoy the profits. An estate is granted and limited to A for the use of B.