Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Dictionary: UN-DER-FAC'TION – UN-DER-HAND'ED
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UN-DER-FAC'TION, n.
A subordinate faction. Decay of Piety.
UN-DER-FAR'MER, n.
A subordinate farmer.
UN-DER-FEL'LOW, n.
A mean sorry wretch. Sidney.
UN-DER-FILL'ING, n.
The lower part of a building. Wotton.
UN-DER-FONG', v.t. [Sax. fangan, to seize.]
To take in hand. [Obs.] Spenser.
UN'DER-FOOT, a.
Low; base; abject; trodden down. Milton.
UN'DER-FOOT, adv.
Beneath. Milton.
UN-DER-FUR'NISH, v.t.
To supply with less than enough. Collier.
UN-DER-FUR'NISH-ED, pp.
Supplied with less than enough.
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.
- 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.
- To pass through. Bread in the stomach undergoes the process of digestion; it undergoes a material alteration.
- To sustain without fainting, yielding or sinking. Can you undergo the operation or the fatigue?
- To be the bearer of; to possess. Virtues – As infinite as man may undergo. [Not in use.] Shak.
- To support; to hazard. I have mov'd certain Romans To undergo with me an enterprise. [Obs.] Shak.
- 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?
A student or member of a university or college, who has not taken his first degree.
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.
- By secret means; in a clandestine manner. Hooker.
- By fraud; by fraudulent means. Dryden.
UN-DER-HAND'ED, a.
Underhand; clandestine: [This is the word in more general use in the United States.]