Uncumbered – Unduke

Uncumbered

UNCUM'BERED, adjective Not burdened; not embarrassed.

Uncurable

UNCU'RABLE, adjective Incurable. [The latter is mostly used.]

Uncurably

UNCU'RABLY, adverb Incurably.

Uncurbable

UNCURB'ABLE, adjective That cannot be curbed or checked. [Not in use.]

Uncurbed

UNCURB'ED, adjective Not curbed; not restrained; licentious.

Uncurl

UNCURL', verb transitive To loose from ringlets.

The lion uncurls his angry mane.

UNCURL', verb intransitive To fall from a curled state, as ringlets; to become straight.

Uncurled

UNCURL'ED, participle passive

1. Loosed from ringlets.

2. adjective Not curled; not formed into ringlets.

Uncurling

UNCURL'ING, participle present tense Loosing from ringlets.

Uncurrent

UNCUR'RENT, adjective Not current; not passing in common payment; as uncurrent coin or notes.

Uncurse

UNCURSE, verb intransitive uncurs'. To free from any execration. [Not used.]

Uncursed

UNCURS'ED,

UNCURST', adjective Not cursed; not execrated.

Uncurst

UNCURST', a. Not cursed; not execrated.

Uncurtailed

UNCURTA'ILED, adjective Not curtailed; not shortened.

Uncustomary

UNCUS'TOMARY, adjective Not customary; not usual.

Uncustomed

UNCUS'TOMED, adjective

1. Not subjected to customs or duty.

2. That has not paid duty, or been charged with customs.

Uncut

UNCUT', adjective Not cut; as trees uncut

Undam

UNDAM', verb transitive To free from a dam, mound or obstruction.

Undamaged

UNDAM'AGED, adjective Not damaged; not made worse; as undamaged goods.

Undamped

UNDAMP'ED, adjective Not damped; not depressed.

Undangerous

UNDANGEROUS, adjective Not dangerous.

Undarkened

UND'ARKENED, adjective Not darkened or obscured.

Undated

UN'DATED, adjective [Latin undatus; unda, a wave.] Waved; rising and falling in waves towards the margin, as a leaf.

UNDA'TED, adjective Not dated; having no date.

Undaunted

UND'AUNTED, adjective Not daunted; not subdued or depressed by fear; intrepid.

Undauntedly

UND'AUNTEDLY, adverb Boldly; intrepidly.

Undauntedness

UND'AUNTEDNESS, noun Boldness; fearless bravery; intrepidity.

Undawning

UNDAWN'ING, adjective Not yet dawning; not growing light; not opening with brightness.

Undazzled

UNDAZ'ZLED, adjective Not dazzled; not confused by splendor.

Undeaf

UNDE'AF, verb transitive To free from deafness. [Not in use.]

Undebased

UNDEBA'SED, adjective Not debased; not adulterated.

Undebauched

UNDEBAUCH'ED, adjective Not debauched; not corrupted; pure.

Undecagon

UNDEC'AGON, noun [Latin undecim, eleven, and Gr. angle.] A figure of eleven angles or sides.

Undecayed

UNDECA'YED, adjective Not decayed; not impaired by age or accident; being in full strength.

Undecaying

UNDECA'YING, adjective

1. Not decaying; not suffering diminution or decline.

2. Immortal; as the undecaying joys of heaven.

Undeceivable

UNDECE'IVABLE, adjective That cannot be deceived; not subject to deception.

Undeceive

UNDECE'IVE, verb transitive To free from deception, cheat, fallacy or mistake, whether caused by others or by ourselves. If we rely on our own works for salvation, the Scriptures may undeceive us.

Undeceived

UNDECE'IVED, participle passive

1. Disabused of cheat, deception or fallacy.

2. Not deceived; not misled or imposed on.

Undeceiving

UNDECE'IVING, participle present tense Freeing from deception or fallacy.

Undecency

UNDE'CENCY, noun Unbecomingness; indecency. [The latter word is now used.]

Undecent

UNDE'CENT, adjective Not decent; indecent. [The latter is the word used.]

Undecently

UNDE'CENTLY, adverb Indecently. [The latter is the word used.]

Undecidable

UNDECI'DABLE, adjective That cannot be decided.

Undecided

UNDECI'DED, adjective Not decided; not determined; not settled.

Undecipherable

UNDECI'PHERABLE, adjective That cannot be deciphered.

Undeciphered

UNDECI'PHERED, adjective Not deciphered or explained.

Undecisive

UNDECI'SIVE, adjective Not decisive; not conclusive; not determining the controversy or contest.

Undeck

UNDECK', verb transitive To divest of ornaments.

Undecked

UNDECK'ED, participle passive

1. Deprived of ornaments.

2. adjective Not decked; not adorned.

Undeclared

UNDECLA'RED, adjective Not declared; not avowed.

Undeclinable

UNDECLI'NABLE, adjective

1. That cannot be declined.

2. Not to be avoided.

Undeclined

UNDECLI'NED, adjective

1. Not deviating; not turned from the right way.

2. Not varied in termination; as a noun undeclined

Undecomposable

UNDECOMPO'SABLE, adjective s as z. Not admitting decomposition; that cannot be decomposed.

Undecomposed

UNDECOMPO'SED, adjective s as z. Not decomposed; not separated; as constituent particles.

Undecompounded

UNDECOMPOUND'ED, adjective Not decompounded.

Undecorated

UNDEC'ORATED, adjective Not adorned; not embellished; plain.

To leave the character of Christ undecorated to make its own impression.

Undedicated

UNDED'ICATED, adjective

1. Not dedicated; not consecrated.

2. Not inscribed to a patron.

Undeeded

UNDEE'DED, adjective

1. Not signalized by any great action.

2. Not transferred by deed; as undeeded land. [Local.]

Undefaceable

UNDEFA'CEABLE, adjective That cannot be defaced.

Undefaced

UNDEFA'CED, adjective Not deprived of its form; not disfigured; as an undefaced statue.

Undefeasible

UNDEFE'ASIBLE, adjective s as z. Not defeasible. [But indefeasible is chiefly used.]

Undefended

UNDEFEND'ED, adjective

1. Not defended; not protected.

2. Not vindicated.

3. Open to assault; being without works of defense.

Undefied

UNDEFI'ED, adjective Not set at defiance; not challenged.

Undefiled

UNDEFI'LED, adjective Not defiled; not polluted; not vitiated.

Undefinable

UNDEFI'NABLE, adjective

1. Not definable; not capable of being described or limited; as the undefinable bounds of space.

2. That cannot be described by interpretation or definition.

Simple ideas are undefinable

Undefinableness

UNDEFI'NABLENESS, noun The quality or state of being undefinable.

Undefined

UNDEFI'NED, adjective

1. Not defined; not described by definition or explanation.

2. Not having its limits described.

Undefloured

UNDEFLOUR'ED, adjective Not debauched; not vitiated.

Undeformed

UNDEFORM'ED, adjective Not deformed; not disfigured.

Undefrauded

UNDEFRAUD'ED, adjective Not defrauded.

Undefrayed

UNDEFRA'YED, adjective Not defrayed; not paid.

Undegraded

UNDEGRA'DED, adjective Not degraded.

Undeify

UNDE'IFY, verb transitive To reduce from the state of Deity.

Undelegated

UNDEL'EGATED, adjective Not delegated; not deputed; not granted; as undelegated authority; undelegated powers.

Undeliberated

UNDELIB'ERATED, adjective Not carefully considered; as an undeliberated measure. [Not correct.]

Undeliberating

UNDELIB'ERATING, adjective Not deliberating; not hesitating; hasty; prompt.

Undelighted

UNDELIGHTED, adjective Not delighted; not well pleased.

Undelightful

UNDELIGHTFUL, adjective Not giving delight or great pleasure.

Undelivered

UNDELIV'ERED, adjective Not delivered; not communicated.

Undemanded

UNDEM'ANDED, adjective Not demanded; not required.

Undemolished

UNDEMOL'ISHED, adjective

1. Not demolished; not pulled down.

2. Not destroyed.

Undemonstrable

UNDEMON'STRABLE, adjective

1. Not capable of fuller evidence.

2. Not capable of demonstration.

Undeniable

UNDENI'ABLE, adjective That cannot be denied; as undeniable evidence.

Undeniably

UNDENI'ABLY, adverb So plainly as to admit no contradiction or denial.

Undepending

UNDEPEND'ING, adjective Not dependent.

Undeplored

UNDEPLO'RED, adjective Not lamented.

Undeposable

UNDEPO'SABLE, adjective s as z. That cannot be deposed from office.

Undepraved

UNDEPRA'VED, adjective Not corrupted; not vitiated.

Undeprecated

UNDEP'RECATED, adjective Not deprecated.

Undepreciated

UNDEPRE'CIATED, adjective Not depreciated; not lowered in value.

Undeprived

UNDEPRI'VED, adjective Not deprived; not divested of by authority; not stripped of any possession.

Under

UNDER, preposition

1. Beneath; below; so as to have something over or above. He stood under a tree; the carriage is under cover. We may see things under water; we have a cellar under the whole house.

2. In a state of pupilage or subjection; as a youth under a tutor; a ward under a guardian; colonies under the British government.

I also am a man under authority, having soldiers under me. Matthew 8:8.

3. In a less degree than. The effect of medicine is sometimes under and sometimes above or over its natural strength.

4. For less than. He would not sell the horse under forty pounds.

5. Less than; below. There are parishes in England under forty pounds a year.

6. With the pretense of; with the cover or pretext of. He does this under the name of love. This argument is not to be evaded under some plausible distinction.

7. With less than.

Several young men could never leave the pulpit under half a dozen conceits.

8. In a degree, state or rank inferior to.

It was too great an honor for any man under a duke.

9. In a state of being loaded; in a state of bearing or being burdened; as, to travel under a heavy load; to live under extreme oppression.

10. In a state of oppression or subjection to, the state in which a person is considered as bearing or having any thing laid upon him; as, to have fortitude under the evils of life; to have patience under pain, or under misfortunes; to behave like a christian under reproaches and injuries.

11. In a state of liability or obligation. No man shall trespass but under the pains and penalties of the law. Attend to the conditions under which you enter upon your office. We are under the necessity of obeying the laws. Nuns are under vows of chastity. We all lie under the curse of the law, until redeemed by Christ.

12. In the state of bearing and being known by; as men trading under the firm of Wright _ Co.

13. In the state of; in the enjoyment or possession of. We live under the gospel dispensation.

14. During the time of. The American revolution commenced under the administration of lord North.

15. Not having reached or arrived to; below. He left three sons under age.

16. Represented by; in the form of. Morpheus is represented under the figure of a boy asleep. [But morph, in Ethiopic, signifies cessation, rest.]

17. In the state of protection or defense. under favor of the prince, our author was promoted. The enemy landed under cover of their batteries.

18. As bearing a particular character.

The duke may be mentioned under the double capacity of a poet and a divine.

19. Being contained or comprehended in.

UNDER this head may be mentioned the contests between the popes and the secular princes.

20. Attested by; signed by. Here is a deed under his hand and seal.

He has left us evidence under his own hand.

21. In a state of being handled, treated or discussed, or of being the subject of. The bill is now under discussion. We shall have the subject under consideration next week.

22. In subordination to. under God, this is our only safety.

23. In subjection or bondage to; ruled or influenced by; in a moral sense; within the dominion of.

They are all under sin. Romans 3:9.

UNDER a signature, bearing, as a name or title.

UNDER way, in seamen's language, moving; in a condition to make progress.

To keep under to hold in subjection or control; to restrain.

I keep under my body. 1 Corinthians 9:20.

UN'DER, adjective Lower in degree; subject; subordinate; as an under officer; under sheriff.

UNDER is much used in composition. For the etymologies, see the principal words.

Under-Sheriff

UNDER-SHER'IFF, noun A sheriff's deputy.

Underaction

UNDERAC'TION, noun Subordinate action; action not essential to the main story.

The least episodes or underactions - are parts necessary to the main design.

Underagent

UNDERA'GENT, noun A subordinate agent.

Underbear

UNDERBEAR, verb transitive

1. To support; to endure.

2. To line; to guard; as cloth of gold underborne with blue tinsel. obsolete

Underbearer

UNDERBEARER, noun In funerals, one who sustains the corpse.

Underbid

UNDERBID', verb transitive To bid or offer less than another; as in auctions, when a contract or service is set up to the lowest bidder.

Underbred

UN'DERBRED, adjective Of inferior breeding or manners.

Underbrush

UN'DERBRUSH, noun Shrubs and small trees in a wood or forest, growing under large trees.

Underbuy

UNDERBUY, verb transitive To buy at less than a thing is worth. [Not used.]

Underchamberlain

UNDERCHAMBERLAIN, noun A deputy chamberlain of the exchequer.

Underclerk

UN'DERCLERK, noun A clerk subordinate to the principal clerk.

Undercroft

UN'DERCROFT, noun A vault under the choir or chancel of a church; also, a vault or secret walk under ground.

Undercurrent

UNDERCUR'RENT, noun A current below the surface of the water.

Underditch

UNDERDITCH', verb transitive To form a deep ditch or trench to drain the surface of land.

Underdo

UNDERDO, verb intransitive

1. To act below one's abilities.

2. To do less than is requisite.

Underdose

UN'DERDOSE, noun A quantity less than a dose.

UNDERDO'SE, verb intransitive To take small doses.

Underdrain

UN'DERDRAIN, noun A drain or trench below the surface of the ground.

UNDERDRA'IN, verb transitive To drain by cutting a deep channel below the surface.

Underfaction

UNDERFAC'TION, noun A subordinate faction.

Underfarmer

UNDERF'ARMER, noun A subordinate farmer.

Underfellow

UNDERFEL'LOW, noun A mean sorry wretch.

Underfilling

UNDERFIL'LING, noun The lower part of a building.

Underfong

UNDERFONG', verb intransitive To take in hand. obsolete

Underfoot

UN'DERFOOT, adverb Beneath.

UN'DERFOOT, adjective Low; base; abject; trodden down.

Underfurnish

UNDERFUR'NISH, verb transitive To supply with less than enough.

Underfurnished

UNDERFUR'NISHED, participle passive Supplied with less than enough.

Underfurnishing

UNDERFUR'NISHING, participle present tense Furnishing with less than enough.

Underfurrow

UNDERFUR'ROW, adverb In agriculture, to sow underforrow, is to plow in seed. This phrase is applied to other operations, in which something is covered by the furrow-slice.

Undergird

UNDERGIRD', verb transitive [See Gird.] To bind below; to gird round the bottom. Acts 27:1.

Undergo

UNDERGO', verb transitive

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.]

5. To support; to hazard.

I have mov'd certain Romans to undergo with me an enterprise.

6. To be subject to.

Claudio undergoes my challenge. obsolete

Undergoing

UNDERGO'ING, participle present tense Suffering; enduring.

Undergone

UNDERGONE, participle passive undergawn'. Borne; suffered; sustained; endured. Who can tell how many evils and pains he has undergone?

Undergraduate

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

Underground

UNDERGROUND', noun A place or space beneath the surface of the ground.

UN'DERGROUND, adjective Being below the surface of the ground; as an underground story or apartment.

UNDERGROUND', adverb Beneath the surface of the earth.

Undergrowth

UN'DERGROWTH, noun That which grows under trees; shrubs or small trees growing among large ones.

Underhand

UN'DERHAND, adverb

1. By secret means; in a clandestine manner.

2. By fraud; by fraudulent means.

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

Underhanded

UNDERHAND'ED, adjective Underhand; clandestine. [This is the word in more general use in the United States.

Underived

UNDERI'VED, adjective Not derived; not borrowed; not received from a foreign source.

Underkeeper

UNDERKEE'PER, noun A subordinate keeper.

Underlaborer

UNDERLA'BORER, noun A subordinate workman

Underlaid

UNDERLA'ID, participle passive or adjective [from underlay.] Having something lying or laid beneath; as sand underlaid with clay.

Underlay

UNDERLA'Y, verb transitive To lay beneath; to support by something laid under.

Underleaf

UNDERLE'AF, noun A sort of apple good for cider.

Underlet

UNDERLET', verb transitive

1. To let below the value.

2. To let or lease, as a lessee or tenant; to let under a lease.

It is a matter of much importance - that the tenant should have power to underlet his farms.

Underletter

UNDERLET'TER, noun A tenant who leases.

Underletting

UNDERLET'TING, participle present tense Letting or leasing under a lease or by a lessee.

UNDERLET'TING, noun The act or practice of letting lands by lessees or tenants. [This is called also subletting.]

Underline

UNDERLI'NE, verb transitive

1. To mark with a line below the words; sometimes called scoring.

2. To influence secretly. [Not used.]

Underlined

UNDERLI'NED, participle passive Marked with a line underneath.

Underling

UN'DERLING, noun An inferior person or agent; a mean sorry fellow.

Underlining

UNDERLI'NING, participle present tense Marking with a line below.

Underlock

UN'DERLOCK, noun A lock of wool hanging under the belly of a sheep.

Undermaster

UN'DERM'ASTER, noun A master subordinate to the principal master.

Undermeal

UN'DERMEAL, noun A repast before dinner.

Undermine

UNDERMI'NE, verb transitive

1. To sap; to excavate the earth beneath, for the purpose of suffering to fall, or of blowing up; as, to undermine a wall.

2. To excavate the earth beneath. Rapid streams often undermine their banks and the trees growing upon them.

3. To remove the foundation or support of any thing by clandestine means; as, to undermine reputation; to undermine the constitution of the state.

He should be warned who are like to undermine him.

Undermined

UNDERMI'NED, participle passive Sapped; having the foundation removed.

Underminer

UNDERMI'NER, noun

1. One that saps, or excavates the earth beneath any thing.

2. One that clandestinely removes the foundation or support; one that secretly overthrows; as an underminer of the church.

Undermining

UNDERMI'NING, participle present tense Sapping; digging away the earth beneath; clandestinely removing the supports of.

Undermost

UN'DERMOST, adjective

1. Lowest in place beneath others.

2. Lowest in state or condition.

The party that is undermost

Undern

UN'DERN, noun The third hour of the day, or nine o'clock. [Not in use.]

Underneath

UNDERNE'ATH, adverb [under and neath. See Nether.]

Beneath; below; in a lower place.

Or sullen Mole that runneth underneath

The slate did not lie flat upon it, but left a free passage underneath

UNDERNE'ATH, preposition Under; beneath.

Underneath this stone doth lie. As much beauty as could die.

Underofficer

UNDEROF'FICER, noun A subordinate officer.

Underogatory

UNDEROG'ATORY, adjective Not derogatory.

Underpart

UN'DERP'ART, noun A subordinate part.

Underpetticoat

UNDERPET'TICOAT, noun A petticoat worn under a skirt or another petticoat.

Underpin

UNDERPIN', verb transitive

1. To lay stones under the sills of a building, on which it is to rest.

2. To support by some solid foundation; or to place something underneath for support.

Underpinned

UNDERPIN'NED, participle passive Supported by stones or a foundation.

Underpinning

UNDERPIN'NING, participle present tense Placing stones under the sills for support.

UNDERPIN'NING, noun

1. The act of laying stones under sills.

2. The stones on which a building immediately rests.

Underplot

UN'DERPLOT, noun

1. A series of events in a play, proceeding collaterally with the main story, and subservient to it.

2. A clandestine scheme.

Underpraise

UNDERPRA'ISE, verb transitive s as z. To praise below desert.

Underprize

UNDERPRI'ZE, verb transitive To value at less than the worth; to undervalue.

Underprized

UNDERPRI'ZED, participle passive Undervalued.

Underprizing

UNDERPRI'ZING, participle present tense Undervaluing.

Underproportioned

UNDERPROPORTIONED, adjective Having too little proportion.

Scanty and underproportioned returns of civility.

Underpuller

UNDERPULL'ER, noun An inferior puller. [Not in use.]

Underrate

UNDERRA'TE, verb transitive To rate too low; to rate below the value; to undervalue.

UN'DERRATE, noun A price less than the worth; as, to sell a thing at an underrate

Underrun

UNDERRUN', verb transitive To pass under in a boat.

To underrun a tackle, to separate its parts and put them in order.

Undersaturated

UNDERSAT'URATED, adjective Not fully saturated; a chimical term.

Undersay

UNDERSA'Y, verb transitive To say by way of derogation or contradiction. [Not in use.]

Undersecretary

UNDERSEC'RETARY, noun A secretary subordinate to the principal secretary.

Undersell

UNDERSELL', verb transitive To sell the same articles at a lower price than another.

Underselling

UNDERSELL'ING, participle present tense Selling at a lower price.

Underservant

UNDERSERV'ANT, noun An inferior servant.

Underset

UNDERSET', verb transitive To prop; to support.

UN'DERSET, noun A current of water below the surface.

Undersetter

UNDERSET'TER, noun A prop; a pedestal; a support. 1 Kings 7:30.

Undersetting

UNDERSET'TING, participle present tense Propping; supporting.

UNDERSET'TING, noun The lower part; the pedestal.

Undersherifry

UNDERSHER'IFRY, noun The office of an under-sheriff. [Not in use.]

Undershot

UN'DERSHOT, adjective Moved by water passing under the wheel; opposed to overshot; as an undershot mill or mill-wheel.

Undershrub

UN'DERSHRUB, noun A low shrub, permanent and woody at the base, but the yearly branches decaying.

Undersoil

UN'DERSOIL, noun Soil beneath the surface; subsoil.

Undersong

UN'DERSONG, noun Chorus; burden of a song.

Menalcas shall sustain his undersong

Understand

UNDERSTAND', verb transitive preterit tense and participle passive understood. [under and stand. The sense is to support or hold in the mind.]

1. To have just and adequate ideas of; to comprehend; to know; as, to understand a problem in Euclid; to understand a proposition or a declaration.

2. To have the same ideas as the person who speaks, or the ideas which a person intends to communicate. I understood the preacher; the court perfectly understand the advocate or his argument.

3. To receive or have the ideas expressed or intended to be conveyed in a writing or book; to know the meaning. It is important that we should understand the sacred oracles.

4. To know the meaning or signs, or of anything intended to convey ideas; as, to understand a nod, a wink, or a motion.

5. To suppose to mean.

The most learned interpreters understood the words of sin, and not of Abel.

6. To know by experience.

7. To know by instinct.

-Amorous intent, well understood.

8. To interpret, at least mentally.

9. To know another's meaning.

10. To hold in opinion with conviction.

11. To mean without expressing.

War then, war, open or understood must be resolv'd.

12. To know what is not expressed.

I bring them to receive from thee their names, and pay thee fealty with low subjection; understand the same of fish.

13. To learn; to be informed. I understand that congress have passed the bill.

UNDERSTAND', verb intransitive

1. To have the use of the intellectual faculties; to be an intelligent and conscious being.

All my soul be imparadis'd in you, in whom alone I understand and grow, and see.

2. To be informed by another; to learn.

I understood of the evil that Eliashib did. Nehemiah 13:1.

Understandable

UNDERSTAND'ABLE, adjective That can be understood. [Not much used.]

Understander

UNDERSTAND'ER, noun One who understands or knows by experience. [Little used.]

Understanding

UNDERSTAND'ING, participle present tense

1. Comprehending; apprehending the ideas or sense of another, or of a writing; learning or being informed.

2. adjective Knowing; skillful. He is an understanding man.

UNDERSTAND'ING, noun

1. The faculty of the human mind by which it apprehends the real state of things presented to it, or by which it receives or comprehends the ideas which others express and intend to communicate. The understanding is called also the intellectual faculty. It is the faculty by means of which we obtain a great part of our knowledge. Luke 24:45. Ephesians 1:18.

By understanding I mean that faculty whereby we are enabled to apprehend the objects of knowledge, generals or particulars, absent or present, and to judge of their truth or falsehood, good or evil.

There is a spirit in man, and the inspiration of the Almighty giveth him understanding Job 32:8.

2. Knowledge; exact comprehension.

Right understanding consists in the perception of the visible or probably agreement or disagreement of ideas.

3. Intelligence between two or more persons; agreement of minds; union of sentiments. There is a good understanding between the minister and his people.

Understandingly

UNDERSTAND'INGLY, adverb Intelligibly; with full knowledge or comprehension of a question or subject; as, to vote upon a question understandingly; to act or judge understandingly

The gospel may be neglected, but it cannot be understandingly disbelieved.

Understood

UNDERSTOOD', preterit tense and participle passive of understand.

Understrapper

UN'DERSTRAPPER, noun A petty fellow; an inferior agent.

Understratum

UNDERSTRA'TUM, noun Subsoil; the bed or layer of earth on which the old or soil rests.

Understroke

UNDERSTRO'KE, verb transitive To underline.

Undertakable

UNDERTA'KABLE, adjective That may be undertaken. [Not in use.]

Undertake

UNDERTA'KE, verb transitive preterit tense undertook; participle passive undertaken. [under and take.]

1. To engage in; to enter upon; to take in hand; to begin to perform. When I undertook this work, I had a very inadequate knowledge of the extent of my labors.

2. To covenant or contract to perform or execute. A man undertakes to erect a house, or to make a mile of canal, when he enters into stipulations for that purpose.

3. To attempt; as when a man undertakes what he cannot perform.

4. To assume a character. [Not in use.]

5. To engage with; to attack.

Your lordship should not undertake every companion you offend. [Not in use.]

6. To have the charge of.

- Who undertakes you to your end. [Not in use.]

UNDERTA'KE, verb intransitive

1. To take upon or assume any business or province.

O Lord, I am oppressed; undertake for me. Isaiah 38:14.

2. To venture; to hazard. They dare not undertake

3. To promise; to be bound.

I dare undertake they will not lose their labor.

To undertake for, to be bound; to become surety for.

Undertaken

UNDERTA'KEN, participle passive of undertake. The work was undertaken at his own expense.

Undertaker

UNDERTA'KER, noun

1. One who undertakes; one who engages in any project or business.

2. One who stipulates or covenants to perform any work for another.

3. One who manages funerals.

Undertaking

UNDERTA'KING, participle present tense Engaging in; taking in hand; beginning to perform; stipulating to execute.

UNDERTA'KING, noun Any business, work or project which a person engages in, or attempts to perform; an enterprise. The canal, or the making of the canal, from the Hudson to lake Erie, a distance of almost four hundred miles, was the greatest undertaking of the kind in modern times. The attempt to find a navigable passage to the Pacific round North America, is a hazardous undertaking and probably useless to navigation.

Undertenant

UNDERTEN'ANT, noun The tenant of a tenant; one who holds lands or tenements of a tenant.

Undertime

UN'DERTIME, noun Undern-tide; the time after dinner, or in the evening. [Not in use.]

Undertook

UNDERTOOK', pret of undertake.

Undertreasurer

UNDERTREASURER, noun undertrezh'urer. A subordinate treasurer.

Undervaluation

UNDERVALUA'TION, noun The act of valuing below the real worth; rate not equal to the worth.

Undervalue

UNDERVAL'UE, verb transitive

1. To value, rate or estimate below the real worth.

2. To esteem lightly; to treat as of little worth.

In comparison of the discharge of my duties, I undervalued all designs of authority.

3. To despise; to hold in mean estimation.

I write not this with the least intention to undervalue the other parts of poetry.

UNDERVAL'UE, noun Low rate or price; a price less than the real worth.

Undervalued

UNDERVAL'UED, participle passive Estimated at less than the real worth; slighted; despised.

Undervaluer

UNDERVAL'UER, noun One who esteems lightly.

Undervaluing

UNDERVAL'UING, participle present tense Estimating at less than the real worth; slighting; despising.

Underwent

UNDERWENT', preterit tense of undergo. He underwent severe trials.

Underwood

UN'DERWOOD, noun Small trees that grow among large trees.

Underwork

UN'DERWORK, noun Subordinate work; petty affairs.

UNDERWORK', verb transitive

1. To destroy by clandestine measures.

2. To work or labor upon less than is sufficient or proper.

3. To work at a less price than others in the like employment; as, one mason may underwork another; a shoemaker cannot underwork a joiner.

Underworker

UN'DERWORKER, noun One who underworks; or a subordinate workman.

Underworking

UNDERWORK'ING, participle present tense Destroying clandestinely; working at a less price than others in the like employment.

Underworkman

UNDERWORKMAN, noun A subordinate workman.

Underwrite

UNDERWRI'TE, verb transitive [See Write.]

1. To write under something else.

The change I have made, I have here underwritten.

2. To subscribe. We whose names are underwritten, agree to pay the sums expressed against your respective names.

3. To subscribe one's name for insurance; to set one's name to a policy of insurance, for the purpose of becoming answerable for loss or damage, for a certain premium per cent. Individuals underwrite policies of insurance, as well as companies.

The broker who procures insurance, ought not, by underwriting the policy, to deprive the parties of his unbiased testimony.

UNDERWRI'TE, verb intransitive To practice insuring.

Underwriter

UN'DERWRITER, noun One who insures; an insurer; so called because he underwrites his name to the conditions of the policy.

Underwriting

UNDERWRI'TING, participle present tense

1. Writing under something.

2. Subscribing a policy; insuring.

UNDERWRI'TING, noun The act or practice of insuring ships, goods, houses, etc.

Underwritten

UNDERWRIT'TEN, participle passive Written under; subscribed.

Undescendible

UNDESCEND'IBLE, adjective Not descendible; not capable of descending to heirs.

Undescribed

UNDESCRI'BED, adjective Not described.

Undescried

UNDESCRI'ED, adjective Not descried; not discovered; not seen.

Undeserved

UNDESERV'ED, adjective s as z. Not deserved; not merited.

Undeservedly

UNDESERV'EDLY, adverb Without desert, either good or evil.

Undeservedness

UNDESERV'EDNESS, noun Want of being worthy.

Undeserver

UNDESERV'ER, noun One of no merit.

Undeserving

UNDESERV'ING, adjective

1. Not deserving; not having merit. God continually supplies the wants of his undeserving creatures.

2. Not meriting; with of; as a man undeserving of happiness, or of punishment. [This is rather harsh and unusual.]

Undeservingly

UNDESERV'INGLY, adverb Without meriting any particular advantage or harm.

Undesigned

UNDESIGNED, adjective Not designed; not intended; not proceeding from purpose; as, to do an undesigned injury.

Undesignedly

UNDESIGNEDLY, adverb Without design or intention.

Undesignedness

UNDESIGNEDNESS, noun Freedom from design or set purpose.

Undesigning

UNDESIGNING, adjective

1. Not acting with set purpose.

2. Sincere; upright; artless; having no artful or fraudulent purpose. It is base to practice on undesigning minds.

Undesirable

UNDESI'RABLE, adjective s as z. Not to be desired; not to be wished; not pleasing.

Undesired

UNDESI'RED, adjective s as z. Not desired, or not solicited.

Undesiring

UNDESI'RING, adjective Not desiring; not wishing.

Undespairing

UNDESPA'IRING, adjective Not yielding to despair.

Undestroyable

UNDESTROY'ABLE, adjective Indestructible. [Not in use.]

Undestroyed

UNDESTROY'ED, adjective Not destroyed; not wasted; not ruined.

Undetected

UNDETECT'ED, adjective Not detected; not discovered; not laid open.

Undeterminable

UNDETERM'INABLE, adjective That cannot be determined or decided.

Undeterminate

UNDETERM'INATE, adjective Not determinate; not settled or certain. [But indeterminate is now generally used.

Undeterminateness

UNDETERM'INATENESS, noun Uncertainty; unsettled state.

Undetermination

UNDETERMINA'TION, noun Indecision; uncertainty of mind. [See indetermination, which is chiefly used.]

Undetermined

UNDETERM'INED, adjective

1. Not determined; not settled; not decided.

2. Not limited; not defined; indeterminate.

Undeterred

UNDETER'RED, adjective Not deterred; not restrained by fear or obstacles.

Undetesting

UNDETEST'ING, adjective Not detesting; not abhorring.

Undeveloped

UNDEVEL'OPED, adjective Not opened or unfolded.

Undeviating

UNDE'VIATING, adjective

1. Not deviating; not departing from the way, or from a rule, principle or purpose; steady; regular; as an undeviating course of virtue.

2. Not erring; not wandering; not crooked.

Undeviatingly

UNDE'VIATINGLY, adverb Without wandering; steadily; regularly.

Undevoted

UNDEVO'TED, adjective Not devoted.

Undevout

UNDEVOUT', Not devout; having no devotion.

Undextrous

UNDEX'TROUS, adjective Not dextrous; clumsy.

Undiaphanous

UNDIAPH'ANOUS, adjective Not transparent; not pellucid.

Undid

UNDID', pret of undo.

Undigenous

UNDIG'ENOUS, adjective [Latin unda, wave and Gr. kind.] Generated by water.

Undigested

UNDIGEST'ED, adjective Not digested; not subdued by the stomach; crude.

Undight

UNDIGHT, verb transitive To put off. obsolete

Undignified

UNDIG'NIFIED, adjective Not dignified; common; mean.

Undiminishable

UNDIMIN'ISHABLE, adjective Not capable of diminution.

Undiminished

UNDIMIN'ISHED, adjective Not diminished; not lessened; unimpaired.

Undiminishing

UNDIMIN'ISHING, adjective Not diminishing; not becoming less.

Undinted

UNDINT'ED, adjective Not impressed by a blow.

Undiplomatic

UNDIPLOMAT'IC, adjective Not according to the rules of diplomatic bodies.

Undipped

UNDIP'PED, adjective Not dipped; not plunged.

Undirected

UNDIRECT'ED, adjective

1. Not directed; not guided; left without direction.

2. Not addressed; not superscribed; as a letter.

Undisappointed

UNDISAPPOINT'ED, adjective Not disappointed.

Undiscerned

UNDISCERN'ED, adjective Not discerned; not seen; not observed; not descried; not discovered; as truths undiscerned

Undiscernedly

UNDISCERN'EDLY, adverb In such a manner as not to be discovered or seen.

Undiscernible

UNDISCERN'IBLE, adjective That cannot be discerned, seen or discovered; invisible; as undiscernible objects or distinctions.

Undiscernibleness

UNDISCERN'IBLENESS, noun The state or quality of being undiscernible.

Undiscernibly

UNDISCERN'IBLY, adverb In a way not to be discovered or seen; invisibly; imperceptibly.

Undiscerning

UNDISCERN'ING, adjective Not discerning; not making just distinctions; wanting judgment or the power of discrimination.

UNDISCERN'ING, noun Want of discernment.

Undisciplined

UNDIS'CIPLINED, adjective

1. Not disciplined; not duly exercised and taught; not subdued to regularity and order; raw; as undisciplined troops; undisciplined valor.

2. Not instructed; untaught; as undisciplined minds.

Undisclose

UNDISCLOSE, verb transitive undisclo'ze. Not to discover. [A bad word.]

Undisclosed

UNDISCLO'SED, adjective Not disclosed; not revealed.

Undiscolored

UNDISCOLORED, adjective Not discolored; not stained.

Undiscording

UNDISCORD'ING, adjective Not disagreeing; not jarring in music; harmonious; as undiscording voices.

Undiscoverable

UNDISCOVERABLE, adjective That cannot be discovered or found out; as a undiscoverable principles.

Undiscoverably

UNDISCOVERABLY, adverb In a manner not to be discovered.

Undiscovered

UNDISCOVERED, adjective Not discovered; not seen; not descried.

Undiscrete

UNDISCRE'TE, adjective Not discrete; not prudent or wise. [Instead of this, indiscrete is used.]

Undiscretely

UNDISCRE'TELY, adverb Indiscretely. [See Indiscretely.]

Undiscussed

UNDISCUSS'ED, adjective Not discussed; not argued or debated.

Undisgraced

UNDISGRA'CED, adjective Not disgraced or dishonored.

Undisguised

UNDISGUISED, adjective [See Guise.]

1. Not disguised; not covered with a mask, or with a false appearance.

2. Open; frank; candid; plain; artless.

Undishonored

UNDISHON'ORED, noun [See Honor.] Not dishonored; not disgraced.

Undismayed

UNDISMA'YED, adjective Not dismayed; not disheartened by fear; not discouraged; as troops undismayed

Undisobliging

UNDISOBLI'GING, adjective Inoffensive. [Little used.]

Undisordered

UNDISOR'DERED, adjective s as z. Not disordered; not disturbed.

Undispensed

UNDISPENS'ED, adjective

1. Not dispensed.

2. Not freed from obligation.

Undispensing

UNDISPENS'ING, adjective Not allowing to be dispensed with.

Undispersed

UNDISPERS'ED, adjective Not dispersed; not scattered.

Undisplayed

UNDISPLA'YED, adjective Not displayed; not unfolded.

Undisputable

UNDIS'PUTABLE, adjective Not disputable. [But the word now used is indisputable.]

Undisputed

UNDISPU'TED, adjective Not disputed; not contested; not called in question; as an undisputed title; undisputed truth.

Undisquieted

UNDISQUI'ETED, adjective Not disquieted; not disturbed.

Undissembled

UNDISSEM'BLED, adjective Not dissembled; open; undisguised; unfeigned; as undissembled friendship or piety.

Undissembling

UNDISSEM'BLING, adjective Not dissembling; not exhibiting a false appearance; not false.

Undissipated

UNDIS'SIPATED, adjective Not dissipated; not scattered.

Undissolvable

UNDISSOLV'ABLE, adjective [See dissolve.]

1. That cannot be dissolved or melted.

2. That may not be loosened or broken; as the undissolvable ties of friendship.

Undissolved

UNDISSOLV'ED, adjective Not dissolved; not melted.

Undissolving

UNDISSOLV'ING, adjective Not dissolving; not melting; as the undissolving ice of the Alps.

Undistempered

UNDISTEM'PERED, adjective

1. Not diseased; free from malady.

2. Free from perturbation.

Undistended

UNDISTEND'ED, adjective Not distended; not enlarged.

Undistilled

UNDISTILL'ED, adjective Not distilled.

Undistinguishable

UNDISTIN'GUISHABLE, adjective

1. That cannot be distinguished by the eye; not to be distinctly seen.

2. Not to be known or distinguished by the intellect, by any peculiar property.

Undistinguishably

UNDISTIN'GUISHABLY, adverb Without distinction; so as not to be known from each other, or to be separately seen.

Undistinguished

UNDISTIN'GUISHED, adjective

1. Not distinguished; not so marked as to be distinctly known from each other.

Undistinguish'd seeds of good and ill.

2. Not separately seen or descried.

3. Not plainly discerned.

4. Having no intervenient space.

5. Not marked by any particular property.

6. Not treated with any particular respect.

7. Not distinguished by any particular eminence.

Undistinguishing

UNDISTIN'GUISHING, adjective Making no difference; not discriminating; as undistinguishing favor.

Undistinguishing distribution of good and evil.

Undistorted

UNDISTORT'ED, adjective Not distorted; not perverted.

Undistracted

UNDISTRACT'ED, adjective Not perplexed by contrariety or confusion of thought, desires or concerns.

Undistractedly

UNDISTRACT'EDLY, adverb Without disturbance from contrariety of thoughts or multiplicity of concerns.

Undistractedness

UNDISTRACT'EDNESS, noun Freedom from disturbance or interruption from contrariety or multiplicity of thoughts and concerns.

Undistributed

UNDISTRIB'UTED, adjective Not distributed or allotted.

Undisturbed

UNDISTURB'ED, adjective

1. Free from interruption; not molested or hindered; as undisturbed with company or noise.

2. Free from perturbation of mind; calm; tranquil; placid; serene; not agitated. To be undisturbed by danger, by perplexities, by injuries received, is a most desirable object.

3. Not agitated; not stirred; not moved; as the surface of water undisturbed

Undisturbedly

UNDISTURB'EDLY, adverb Calmly; peacefully.

Undisturbedness

UNDISTURB'EDNESS, noun Calmness; tranquillity; freedom from molestation or agitation.

Undiversified

UNDIVERS'IFIED, adjective Not diversified; not varied; uniform.

Undiverted

UNDIVERT'ED, adjective

1. Not diverted; not turned aside.

2. Not amused; not entertained or pleased.

Undividable

UNDIVI'DABLE, adjective That cannot be divided; not separable; as an undividable scene.

Undivided

UNDIVI'DED, adjective

1. Not divided; not separated or disunited; unbroken; whole; as undivided attention or affections.

2. In botany, not lobed, cleft or branched.

Undividedly

UNDIVI'DEDLY, adverb So as not to be parted.

Undivorced

UNDIVORCED, adjective Not divorced; not separated.

Undivulged

UNDIVULG'ED, adjective Not divulged; not revealed or disclosed; secret.

Undo

UNDO, verb transitive preterit tense undid; participle passive undone.

1. To reverse what has been done; to annul; to bring to naught any transaction. We can undo many kinds of work; but we cannot undo crimes, errors or faults.

Tomorrow ere the setting sun, she'd all undo what she had done.

2. To loose; to open; to take to pieces; to unravel; to unfasten; to untie; as, to undo a knot.

3. To ruin; to bring to poverty; to impoverish. Many are undone by unavoidable losses; but more undo themselves by vices and dissipation, or by indolence.

4. To ruin, in a moral sense; to bring to everlasting destruction and misery.

5. To ruin in reputation.

Undock

UNDOCK', verb transitive To take out of dock; as, to undock a ship.

Undoer

UNDOER, noun One who undoes or brings destruction; one who reverses what has been done; one who ruins the reputation of another.

Undoing

UNDOING, participle present tense Reversing what has been done; ruining.

UNDOING, noun

1. The reversal of what has been done.

2. Ruin; destruction.

Undone

UNDONE, participle passive

1. Reversed; annulled.

2. Ruined; destroyed.

When the legislature is corrupted, the people are undone

3. adjective Not done; not performed; not executed. We are apt to leave undone what we ought to do.

Undoubted

UNDOUBTED, adjective undout'ed. Not doubted; not called in question; indubitable; indisputable; as undoubted proof; undoubted truth.

Undoubtedly

UNDOUBTEDLY, adverb undout'edly. Without doubt; without question; indubitably.

Undoubtful

UNDOUBTFUL, adjective undout'ful. Not doubtful; not ambiguous; plain; evident.

Undoubting

UNDOUBTING, adjective undout'ing. Not doubting; not hesitating respecting facts; not fluctuating in uncertainty; as an undoubting believer; an undoubting faith.

Undrained

UNDRA'INED, adjective Not drained; not freed from water.

Undramatic

UNDRAMAT'IC,

UNDRAMAT'ICAL, adjective Not dramatic; not according to the rules of the drama, or not suited to the drama.

Undramatical

UNDRAMAT'ICAL, a. Not dramatic; not according to the rules of the drama, or not suited to the drama.

Undrawn

UNDRAWN', adjective

1. Not drawn; not pulled by an external force.

2. Not allured by motives or persuasion.

3. Not taken from the box; as an undrawn ticket.

Undreaded

UNDREADED, adjective undred'ed. Not dreaded; not feared.

Undreamed

UNDRE'AMED, adjective Not dreamed; not thought of.

Undress

UNDRESS', verb intransitive

1. To divest of clothes; to strip.

2. To divest of ornaments, or the attire of ostentation; to disrobe.

UN'DRESS, noun A loose negligent dress.

Undressed

UNDRESS'ED, participle passive

1. Divested of dress; disrobed.

2. adjective Not dressed; not attired.

3. Not prepared; as meat undressed

4. Not pruned; not trimmed; not put in order; as an undressed vineyard.

Undried

UNDRI'ED, adjective

1. Not dried; wet; moist; as undried cloth.

2. Not dried; green; as undried hay; undried hops.

Undriven

UNDRIV'EN, adjective Not driven; not impelled.

Undrooping

UNDROOP'ING, adjective Not drooping; not sinking; not despairing.

Undrossy

UNDROSS'Y, adjective Free from dross or recrement.

Undrowned

UNDROWN'ED, adjective Not drowned.

Undubitable

UNDU'BITABLE, adjective Not to be doubted; unquestionable. [But the word now used is indubitable.]

Undue

UNDUE, adjective

1. Not due; not yet demandable of right; as a debt, note or bond undue

2. Not right; not legal; improper; as an undue proceeding.

3. Not agreeable to a rule or standard, or to duty; not proportioned; excessive; as an undue regard to the externals of religion; an undue attachment to forms; an undue rigor in the execution of law.

Unduke

UNDU'KE, verb transitive To deprive of dukedom.