Underfollow
(Un`der*fol"low) v. t. To follow closely or immediately after. [Obs.] Wyclif.

Underfong
(Un`der*fong") v. t. [AS. underfongen, p. p. of underfn to undertake; under under + fn to take. See Fang to seize.]

1. To undertake; to take in hand; to receive. [Obs.] Piers Plowman. Rom. of R.

2. To insnare; to circumvent. [Obs.] Spenser.

3. To sustain; to support; to guard. Nash.

Underfoot
(Un`der*foot") adv. Under the feet; underneath; below. See Under foot, under Foot, n.

Underfoot
(Un`der*foot"), a. Low; base; abject; trodden down.

Underfringe
(Un"der*fringe`) n. A lower fringe; a fringe underneath something.

Broad-faced, with underfringe of russet beard.
Tennyson.

Underfurnish
(Un`der*fur"nish) v. t. To supply with less than enough; to furnish insufficiently. Collier.

Underfurrow
(Un`der*fur"row) v. t. To cover as under a furrow; to plow in; as, to underfurrow seed or manure.

Under-garment
(Un"der-gar`ment) n. A garment worn below another.

Underget
(Un`der*get") v. t. To get under or beneath; also, to understand. [Obs.] R. of Gloucester.

Undergird
(Un`der*gird") v. t. To blind below; to gird round the bottom.

They used helps, undergirding the ship.
Acts xxvii. 17.

Underglaze
(Un"der*glaze`) a. Applied under the glaze, that is, before the glaze, that is, before the glaze is put on; fitted to be so applied; — said of colors in porcelain painting.

Undergo
(Un`der*go") v. t. [imp. Underwent ; p. p. Undergone (?; 115); p. pr. & vb. n. Undergoing.] [AS. undergan. See Under, and Go.]

1. To go or move below or under. [Obs.]

2. To be subjected to; to bear up against; to pass through; to endure; to suffer; to sustain; as, to undergo toil and fatigue; to undergo pain, grief, or anxiety; to undergothe operation of amputation; food in the stomach undergoes the process of digestion.

Certain to undergo like doom.
Milton.

3. To be the bearer of; to possess. [Obs.]

Their virtues else, be they as pure as grace,
As infinite as man may undergo.
Shak.

4. To undertake; to engage in; to hazard. [Obs.]

I have moved already
Some certain of the noblest-minded Romans
To undergo with me an enterprise.
Shak.


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