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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 raise or support by something laid under; as, to underlay a cut, plate, or the like, for printing. See Underlay, n., 2.

To raise with a spar, or piece of wood, used as a lever. [Obs.] Give me a staff that I may underspore. Chaucer.

To raise or remove from the grave; to disinter; to untomb; to exhume. [Obs.] Fuller.

ed by engineers in England and in the United States, is the quantity of heat necessary to raise one pound of pure water at and near its temperature of greatest density (39.1º Fahr.) through one degree of the Fahrenheit scale. Rankine. -- Unit of illumination, the light of a sperm candle burning 120 grains per hour. St…

Not raised to the rank of a lord. Milton.

Not valued; not appraised; hence, not considered; disregarded; valueless; as, an unvalued estate. "Unvalued persons." Shak.

lton. Thou hast fired me; my soul's up in arms. Dryden. Grief and passion are like floods raised in little brooks by a sudden rain; they are quickly up. Dryden. A general whisper ran among the country people, that Sir Roger was up. Addison. Let us, then, be up and doing, With a heart for any fate. Longfellow.…

To bear up; to raise aloft; to support in an elevated situation; to sustain. Spenser. One short sigh of breath, upbore Even to the seat of God. Milton. A monstrous wave upbore The chief, and dashed him on the craggy shore. Pope.

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

To lift or raise aloft; to raise; to elevate; as, to uplift the arm; to uplift a rock. Cowper. Satan, talking to his nearest mate, With head uplift above the wave, and eyes That sparkling blazed. Milton.

Upraised; erect; -- said of the ears of an animal. Mason.

To raise; to erect. Byron.

Raised up in a ridge or ridges; as, a billow upridged. Cowper.

Suddenly raised to prominence or consequence. "A race of upstart creatures." Milton.

To rise upward in a whirl; to raise upward with a whirling motion.

ch, being limited by the deed, expires or can not vest, and results or returns to him who raised it, after such expiration. -- Secondary, or Shifting, use, a use which, though executed, may change from one to another by circumstances. Blackstone. -- Statute of uses (Eng. Law), the stat. 27 Henry VIII., cap. 10, which…

t of valuing, or of estimating value or worth; the act of setting a price; estimation; appraisement; as, a valuation of lands for the purpose of taxation.

One who assesses, or sets a value on, anything; an appraiser. Swift.