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An undergoing stomach, to bear up 
Against what should ensue. Shakspeare. 
To pass through.—I carried on my enquiries to try whe¬ 
ther this rising world, when finished, would continue always 
the same; or what change it would successively undergo, 
by the continued action of the same causes. Burnet. —To 
be subject to.—Claudio undergoes my challenge, and either 
T must shortly hear from him, or I will subscribe him a cow¬ 
ard. Sha/cspeare. 
UNDERGRA'DUATE, s. One who has not taken a 
degree at our universities.—In all dividends and distributions 
of the revenues of the college, all fellows of the same degree 
shall have equal dividends; that is to say, all undergradu¬ 
ates alike; all bachelors of arts alike, &c. Dean Prideau.v, 
UNDERGROUND, s. Subterraneous space. 
They have promised to shew your highness 
A spirit rais’d from depth of underground. Sha/cspeare. 
U'NDERGROWTH, s. That which grows under the 
tall wood. 
So thick entwin’d, 
As one continu’d brake, the undergrowth 
Of shrubs, and tangling bushes, had perplex’d 
All path of man, or beast; that pass’d that way. Milton. 
UNDERHA'ND, adv. By means not apparent; se¬ 
cretly.—These multiplied petitions of worldly things in 
prayer, have, besides their direct use, a service, whereby 
the church underhand, through a kind of heavenly fraud, 
taketh therewith the souls of men, as with certain baits. 
Hooker. —Clandestinely ; with fraudulent secrecy.—She un¬ 
derhand dealt with the principal men of that country, that 
they should persuade the king to make Plangus his asso¬ 
ciate. Sidney. 
UNDERHA'ND, adj. Secret; clandestine; sly.—I had 
notice of my brother’s purpose, and have, by underhand 
means, laboured to dissuade him. Sha/cspeare. 
UNDERHILL, a township of the United States, in Chit¬ 
tenden county, Vermont; 34 miles north-west of Montpelier. 
Population 490. 
UNDERI'VED, adj. Not borrowed.—The ideas it is 
busied about should be, sometimes at least, those more con¬ 
genial ones, which it had in itself, underived from the body. 
UNDERKEETER, 5. Any subordinate keeper.—They 
printed 1000 copies of the Harleian catalogue;—and are 
building apartments for the underkeepers. Gray. 
UNDERLA'BOURER, s. A subordinate workman. 
To UNDERLA'Y, v. a. [Sax. unbeplecgan.] To 
strengthen by something laid under. 
UNDERLE'AF, s. A species of apple.— The underleaf 
whose cyder is best at two years, is a plentiful bearer. Mor- 
tlYYl€V % 
To U'NDERLET, v. a. To let below the value.—All 
my farms were underlet. Smollett. 
To UNDERLINE, v. a. To mark with lines below the 
words.—To influence secretly.—By mere chance in appear¬ 
ance, though underlined with a providence, they had a full 
sight of the infanta. Wotton. 
U'NDERLING, s. An inferior agent; a sorry, mean 
fellow. 
The fault is notin our stars, 
But in ourselves, that we are underlings. Shakspeare. 
U'NDERMASTER, s. A master subordinate to the 
principal master.—For the instruction of the scholars, a 
schoolmaster, and an undermaster, or usher. Lowth. 
U'NDERMEAL, s. [unbepn. Sax. and meal. See Un- 
dern.] A repast after dinner. Coles follows our ancient 
lexicography in calling undermeals simply, but improperly, 
afternoons. —I am furnish’d, for cather’ne pears, for one 
undermeal. B. Jonson. 
UNDERM1LLBECK, a township of England, in the 
parish of Windermere, Westmoreland. Here stands the 
church of Windermere, a large and handsome building, the 
windows of which contain some beautiful paintings on glass, 
Vol. XXIV. No. 1647. 
brought from Furness Abbey; 8| miles west-by-north of 
Kendal. Population 503. 
To UNDERMl'NE, v. a. To dig cavities under any 
thing, so that it may tall, or be blown up; to sap. 
Though the foundation on a rock were laid, 
The church was undermin'd and then betray’d. Denham . 
To excavate under.—To injure by clandestine means. 
They, knowing Eleanor’s aspiring humour, 
Have hir’d me to undermine the dutchess. Shakspeare. 
UNDERMI'NER, s. He that saps; he that digs away 
the supports.— Underminers are never seen till they have 
wrought their purpose. Hales. —A clandestine enemy. 
When I perceiv’d all set on enmity, 
As on my enemies, where-ever chanc’d, 
I us’d hostility, and took their spoil, 
To pay my underminers in their coin. Milton. 
U'NDERMOST, adj. [This is a kind of superlative 
anomalously formed from under. ]—Lowest in place.—Using 
oil of almonds, we drew up with the undermost stone a 
much greater weight. Boyle. —Lowest in state or condition. 
—This opinion, taken by other sectaries, was to last no 
longer than they were undermost. Atterbury. 
U'NDERN, s. [unbepn, Sax. tertia hora Judseorum ; 
nostra vero nona matutina. Lye.] The third hour of the 
day, or nine of the clock. In Chaucer’s time the third hour, 
or underne, was the usual hour of dinner. Tyrwhitt. Un¬ 
dent is the afternoon, in the north of England, according 
to Grose; who thinks, as Peck had before supposed, that 
the word was originally undernoon ; which, however, im¬ 
plies forenoon. —It was passed undent of the day. Chau¬ 
cer. 
UNDERNEATH, adv. [Compounded from under and 
neath, of which we still retain the comparative nether, but 
in adverbial sense use beneath.'] In the lower place ; below; 
under; beneath. 
Forthwith up to the clouds 
With him I flew, and underneath beheld 
The earth outstretch’d immense, a prospect wide. Milton. 
UNDERNE'ATH, prep. [unbepneoSan, Sax.] Under, 
Pray God, she prove not masculine ere long! 
If underneath the standard of the French 
She carry armour, as she hath begun. Shakspeare. 
UNDERO'FFICER, s. An inferior officer; one in sub¬ 
ordinate authority.—This certificate of excommunication by 
bishops, of all others, is most in use ; and would be more so, 
were it not for the manifold abuses about its execution com¬ 
mitted by underoficers. Alyffe. 
UNDER.O'GATORY, adj. Not derogatory. 
To U'NDERPIN, v. a. To prop; to support.—Victors, 
to secure themselves against disputes of that kind, underpin 
their acquest jure belli. Hale. 
U'NDERPART, s. Subordinate or unessential part.— 
The English will not bear a thorough tragedy, but are pleased 
that it should be lightened with underparts of mirth. Dry- 
den. 
UNDERPE'TTICOAT, s. The petticoat worn next the 
body.—They go to bed as tired with doing nothing, as I 
after quilting a whole under-petticoat. Spectator. 
U'NDERPLOT, s. A series of events proceeding collat¬ 
erally with the main story of a play, and subservient to it.— 
In a tragi-comedy, there is to be but one mam design ; and 
though there be an underplot, yet it is subservient to the 
chief fable. Dryden. —A clandestine scheme.—The hus¬ 
band is so misled by tricks, and so lost in a crooked intrigue, 
that he still suspects an underplot. Addison. 
To UNDERPR-A'ISE, v. a. To praise below desert. 
In underpraising thy deserts, 
Here find the first deficience of our tongue. Dryden. 
To UNDERPRl'ZE, v. a. To value at less than the 
worth. 
How far 
The substance of my praise doth wrong this shadow 
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