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One who, or that which, underlays or is underlaid; a lower layer.

A prolific sort of apple, good for cider. [Obs.] Mortimer.

A lease granted by a tenant or lessee; especially, a lease granted by one who is himself a lessee for years, for any fewer or less number of years than he himself holds; a sublease. Burrill.

To let below the value. All my farms were underlet. Smollett.

A tenant or lessee who grants a lease to another.

To lie under; to rest beneath; to be situated under; as, a stratum of clay underlies the surface gravel.

To mark a line below, as words; to underscore.

fellow. Milton. he fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, But in ourselves, that we are underlings. Shak.

The lower lip.

A motor starter provided with an underload switch.

A switch which opens a circuit when the current falls below a certain predetermined value, used to protect certain types of motors from running at excessive speed upon decrease of load.

A lock of wool hanging under the belly of a sheep.

A person who inspects a mine daily; -- called also underviewer.

Lying under or beneath; hence, fundamental; as, the underlying strata of a locality; underlying principles.

Insufficiently furnished with men; short-handed.

Having masts smaller than the usual dimension; -- said of vessels. Totten.

A master subordinate to the principal master; an assistant master.

One who is not a match for another. Fuller.

The inferior, or after, part of the day; the afternoon. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.] In undermeals and in mornings. Chaucer.

e part of, especially for the purpose of causing to fall or be overthrown; to form a mine under; to sap; as, to undermine a wall. A vast rock undermined from one end to the other, and a highway running through it. Addison.