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The office or employment of a teller.

A shower accompanied with lightning and thunder.

The common guillemot. [Prov. Eng.]

The office of treasurer.

Under the usual shape or size; small; dwarfish. [Poetic] His dwarf, a vicious undershapen thing. Tennyson.

A sheriff's deputy.

Undershrievalty. [Obs.]

A shirt worn next the skin, under another shirt; -- called also undervest.

To shoot short of (a mark).

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

The office or position of an undersheriff.

A low shrub; a woody plant of low stature.

Partly shrublike.

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

The office of an usher; usherdom.

The whole region or extent of country which contributes to the supply of a river or lake.

A sprig or shoot from the root or stock of a tree. [Obs.]

The honor or position of being a wrangler at the University of Cambridge, England.

The office of a writer.

rts of the original substance. Abstract of title (Law), an epitome of the evidences of ownership.