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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.

To undermine. [Prov. Eng.] Halliwell.

t means; in a clandestine manner; hence, by fraud; unfairly. Such mean revenge, committed underhand. Dryden. Baillie Macwheeble provided Janet, underhand, with meal for their maintenance. Sir W. Scott.

Underhand; clandestine.

In an underhand manner.

To hang under or down; to suspend. Holland.

An assistant or deputy hangman. Shak.

A blockhead, or stupid person; a dunderhead. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.

To heave or lift from below. [Obs.] Wyclif.

To hew less than is usual or proper; specifically, to hew, as a piece of timber which should be square, in such a manner that it appears to contain a greater number of cubic feet than it really does contain. Haldeman.

Not entirely honest. [R.] "We think him overproud and underhonest." Shak.

Resting on a track at the bottom, instead of being suspended; - - said of a sliding door. Forney.

The lower jaw. Paley.

To join below or beneath; to subjoin. Wyclif.