2. To do less work than is proper or suitable.
3. To do work for a less price than current rates.
Underwork
(Un"der*work`) n. Inferior or subordinate work; petty business. Addison.
Underworker
(Un"der*work`er) n.
1. One who underworks.
2. An inferior or subordinate workman. Waterland.
Underworld
(Un"der*world`) n.
1. The lower of inferior world; the world which is under the heavens; the earth.
That overspreads (with such a reverence)
This underworld.
Daniel. 2. The mythological place of departed souls; Hades.
3. The portion of the world which is below the horizon; the opposite side of the world; the antipodes. [R.]
Fresh as the first beam glittering on a sail,
That brings our friends up from the underworld.
Tennyson. 4. The inferior part of mankind. [R.] Atterbury.
Underwrite
(Un`der*write") v. t. [imp. Underwrote Obs. Underwrit ; p. p. Underwritten Obs. Underwrit;
p. pr. & vb. n. Underwriting.]
1. To write under something else; to subscribe.
What addition and change I have made I have here underwritten.
Bp. Sanderson. 2. To subscribe one's name to for insurance, especially for marine insurance; to write one's name under,
or set one's name to, as a policy of insurance, for the purpose of becoming answerable for loss or damage,
on consideration of receiving a certain premium per cent; as, individuals, as well as companies, may
underwrite policies of insurance. B. Jonson.
The broker who procures the insurance ought not, by underwriting the policy, to deprive the parties of
his unbiased testimony.
Marshall. Underwrite
(Un`der*write"), v. i. To practice the business of insuring; to take a risk of insurance on a
vessel or the like.
Underwriter
(Un"der*writ`er) n. One who underwrites his name to the conditions of an insurance policy,
especially of a marine policy; an insurer.
Underwriting
(Un"der*writ`ing), n. The business of an underwriter,
Underyoke
(Un`der*yoke") v. t. To subject to the yoke; to make subject. Wyclif.
Undeserve
(Un`de*serve") v. t. [1st pref. un- + deserve.] To fail to deserve. [Obs.] Milton.
Undeserver
(Un`de*serv"er) n. One of no merit; one who is nor deserving or worthy. [Obs.] Shak.
Undesigning
(Un`de*sign"ing) a. Having no artful, ulterior, or fraudulent purpose; sincere; artless; simple.
