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A ragged fellow; a ragamuffin. L'Estrange.

A green pigment found in the feathers of the turacou. See Turacin.

Crafty, unfair, or underhand dealing; unfair practice; trickery. Milton.

To delve under. [Obs.]

To dig under or beneath; to undermine. [Obs.] Wyclif.

To dig an underground ditches in, so as to drain the surface; to underdrain; as, to underditch a field or a farm.

To do less than is requisite or proper; -- opposed to overdo. Grew.

One who underdoes; a shirk.

p. p. of Underdelve.

To give an underdose or underdoses to; to practice giving insufficient doses.

To drain by forming an underdrain or underdrains in; as, to underdrain land.

Not dresses enough.

The office or position of an usher; ushership; also, ushers, collectively. [R.]

The veltfare. [Prov. Eng.]

The privilege of cutting green wood within a forest for fuel.

A green porphyry called oriental verd antique.

The quality or state of being verdant.

Covered with growing plants or grass; green; fresh; flourishing; as, verdant fields; a verdant lawn. Let the earth Put forth the verdant grass. Milton.

In a verdant manner.

An officer who has the charge of the king's forest, to preserve the vert and venison, keep the assizes, view, receive, and enroll attachments and presentments of all manner of trespasses. Blackstone.