Emily Dickinson Lexicon

UN-DER-FUR'NISH-ING, ppr.

Furnishing with less than enough.

UN-DER-FUR'ROW, adv.

In agriculture, to sow underfurrow, is to plow in seed. This phrase is applied to other operations, in which something is covered by the furrow-slice.

UN-DER-GIRD', v.t. [See Gird.]

To bind below; to gird round the bottom. Acts xxvii.

UN-DER-GIRD'ING, ppr.

Binding below; girding round the bottom.

UN-DER-GO', v.t.

1. To suffer; to endure something burdensome or painful to the body or the mind; as, to undergo toil and fatigue; to undergo pain; to undergo grief or anxiety; to undergo the operation of amputation.
2. To pass through. Bread in the stomach undergoes the process of digestion; it undergoes a material alteration.
3. To sustain without fainting, yielding or sinking. Can you undergo the operation or the fatigue?
4. To be the bearer of; to possess. Virtues – As infinite as man may undergo. [Not in use.] Shak.
5. To support; to hazard. I have mov'd certain Romans To undergo with me an enterprise. [Obs.] Shak.
6. To be subject to. Claudio undergoes my challenge. [Obs.] Shak.

UN-DER-GO'ING, ppr.

Suffering; enduring.

UN-DER-GONE, pp. undergawn'.

Borne; suffered; sustained; endured. Who can tell how many evils and pains he has undergone?

UN-DER-GRAD'U-ATE, n.

A student or member of a university or college, who has not taken his first degree.

UN-DER-GRAD'U-ATE-SHIP, n.

The state of being an undergraduate. Life of Paley.

UN'DER-GROUND, a.

Being below the surface of the ground; as, an underground story or apartment.

UN-DER-GROUND', adv.

Beneath the surface of the earth.

UN-DER-GROUND', n.

A place or space beneath the surface of the ground. Shak.

UN'DER-GROWTH, n.

That which grows under trees; shrubs or small trees growing among large ones. Milton.

UN'DER-HAND, a.

Secret; clandestine; usually implying meanness or fraud, or both. He obtained the place by underhand practices.

UN'DER-HAND, adv.

1. By secret means; in a clandestine manner. Hooker.
2. By fraud; by fraudulent means. Dryden.

UN-DER-HAND'ED, a.

Underhand; clandestine: [This is the word in more general use in the United Slates.]

UN-DER-HAND'ED-LY, adv.

Secretly; clandestinely.

UN-DER-HEW', v.t.

To hew a piece of timber which should be square, in such a manner, that it appears to contain a greater number of cubic feet than it really does. Haldiman.

UN-DE-RIV-ED, a.

Not derived; not borrowed; not received from a foreign source.

UN-DER-KEEP'-ER, n.

A subordinate keeper. Gray.

UNDER-LA'BOR-ER, n.

A subordinate workman. Wilkins.

UN-DER-LAID, pp. [or a. from underlay.]

Having something lying or laid beneath; as, sand underlaid with clay.

UN-DER-LAY, v.t.

To lay beneath; to support by something laid under.

UN-DER-LAY-ING, ppr.

Laying beneath; supporting by laying something under.

UN-DER-LEAF, n.

A sort of apple good for cider. Cyc. Mortimer.