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A garment worn below another.
To perform inefficiently, as a play; to act feebly.
Subordinate action; a minor action incidental or subsidiary to the main story; an episode.
A subordinate actor.
A subordinate agent.
To aid clandestinely.
A vessel which receives the wort as it flows from the mashing tub.
To support; to endure.
To line; to guard; to face; as, cloth of gold underborne with blue tinsel.
One who supports or sustains; especially, at a funeral, one of those who bear the copse, as distinguished from a bearer, or pallbearer, who helps to hold up the pall.
To bid less than, as when a contract or service is offered to the lowest bidder; to offer to contract, sell, or do for a less price than.
To bind beneath.
Under the board, or table; hence, secretly; unfairly; underhand. See the Note under Aboveboard.
To brace, fasten, or bind underneath or below.
A lower branch.
A twig or branchlet.
Not thoroughly bred; ill-bred; as, an underbred fellow.
Shrubs, small trees, and the like, in a wood or forest, growing beneath large trees; undergrowth.
A subordinate or assistant builder.
Same as Substruction.