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Under the feet; underneath; below. See Under foot, under Foot, n.

A lower fringe; a fringe underneath something. Broad-faced, with underfringe of russet beard. Tennyson.

To supply with less than enough; to furnish insufficiently. Collier.

To cover as under a furrow; to plow in; as, to underfurrow seed or manure.

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

To blind below; to gird round the bottom. They used helps, undergirding the ship. Acts xxvii. 17.

Applied under the glaze, that is, before the glaze, that is, before the glaze is put on; fitted to be so applied; -- said of colors in porcelain painting.

To go or move below or under. [Obs.]

A lower or inferio

To gore underneath.

A gown worn under another, or under some other article of dress. An undergown and kirtle of pale sea-green silk. Sir W. Scott.

Of or pertaining to an undergraduate, or the body of undergraduates.

The position or condition of an undergraduate.

To groan beneath. [Obs.] Earth undergroaned their high-raised feet. Chapman.

pace beneath the surface of the ground; subterranean space. A spirit raised from depth of underground. Shak.

Wildcat insurance.

A grove of shrubs or low trees under taller ones. Wordsworth.

Undergrown. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Of small stature; not grown to a full height or size.

That which grows under trees; specifically, shrubs or small trees growing among large trees. Milton.