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Built or erected on something else. Hammond.

One who builds a superstructure. [R.] R. North.

ve the basement. Also used figuratively. You have added to your natural endowments the superstructure of study. Dryden.

rmerly believed to be a stone. Fear no more the lightning flash, Nor the all-dreaded thunderstone. Shak.

A storm accompanied with lightning and thunder.

something terrible; -- rarely used except in the past participle. drove before him, thunderstruck. Milton.

Of or pertaining to the kitchen, or the servants' quarters; hence, subordinate; menial. [Obs.]

The basement or cellar.

nded the meaning or intention of; to have knowledge of; to comprehend; to know; as, to understand a problem in Euclid; to understand a proposition or a declaration; the court understands the advocate or his argument; to understand the sacred oracles; to understand a nod or a wink. Speaketh [i. e., speak thou] so plain…

Capable of being understood; intelligible. Chillingworth.

One who understands, or knows by experience. [R.] Dryden.

Knowing; intelligent; skillful; as, he is an understanding man.

In an understanding manner; intelligibly; with full knowledge or comprehension; intelligently; as, to vote upon a question understandingly; to act or judge understandingly. The gospel may be neglected, but in can not be understandingly disbelieved. J. Hawes.

To state or represent less strongly than may be done truthfully.

The act of understating, or the condition of being understated; that which is understated; a statement below the truth.

To supply insufficiently with stock. A. Smith.

imp. & p. p. of Understand.

agent; an underling. This was going to the fountain head at once, not applying to the understrappers. Goldsmith.

Becoming an understrapper; subservient. [R.] Sterne.

The layer, or stratum, of earth on which the mold, or soil, rests; subsoil.