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Strong; powerful; fierce. [Obs.] -- Derf"ly, adv. [Obs.]

A flask in which gunpowder is carried, having a charging tube at the end.

A delicate person; one not inured to the hardship and rudeness of pioneer life. [Slang, Western U.S.]

A large European loach (Misgurnus fossilis).

A subordinate party or faction.

An inferior or subordinate faculty.

An assistant farmer.

To feed with too little food; to supply with an insufficient quantity of food.

An underling [R.] Sir P. Sidney.

The filling below or beneath; the under part of a building. Sir H. Wotton.

To follow closely or immediately after. [Obs.] Wyclif.

To undertake; to take in hand; to receive. [Obs.] Piers Plowman. Rom. of R.

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.

Adapted to excite wonder or admiration; surprising; strange; astonishing.

Fitted to excite wonder; wonderful; marvelous. [Obs.] In man there is nothing admirable but his ignorance and weakness. Jer. Taylor.

The quality of being admirable; wonderful excellence.

gled with approbation or delight; an emotion excited by a person or thing possessed of wonderful or high excellence; as, admiration of a beautiful woman, of a landscape, of virtue.