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The lower or under side of a sirloin of beef; the fillet.

Crafty, unfair, or underhand dealing; unfair practice; trickery. Milton.

To delve under. [Obs.]

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

To dig an underground ditches in, so as to drain the surface; to underdrain; as, to underditch a field or a farm.

To do less thoroughly than is requisite; specifically, to cook insufficiently; as, to underdo the meat; -- opposed to overdo.

One who underdoes; a shirk.

p. p. of Underdelve.

To give an underdose or underdoses to; to practice giving insufficient doses.

An underground drain or trench with openings through which the water may percolate from the soil or ground above.

Not dresses enough.

The act of underestimating; too low an estimate.

A subordinate party or faction.

An inferior or subordinate faculty.

An assistant farmer.

To feed with too little food; to supply with an insufficient quantity of food.

An underling [R.] Sir P. Sidney.

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

To follow closely or immediately after. [Obs.] Wyclif.

To undertake; to take in hand; to receive. [Obs.] Piers Plowman. Rom. of R.