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To keep under, or in subjection; to suppress. [Obs.] Spenser.

A subordinate keeper or guardian. Gray.

An inferior kind. Dryden.

A subordinate or dependent kingdom. Tennyson.

An assistant or subordinate laborer. Locke.

Laid or placed underneath; also, having something laid or lying underneath.

To lay beneath; to put under.

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.