Underspread, un-dėr-spred′, adj. spread under or beneath.
Understand, un-dėr-stand′, v.t. to comprehend: to have just ideas of: to know thoroughly: to be informed of: to learn: to suppose to mean: to mean without expressing: to imply.—v.i. to have the use of the intellectual faculties: to be informed: to learn.—adj. Understan′dable.—p.adj. Understan′ded (obs.), understood (with of).—n. Understan′ding, the act of comprehending: the faculty or the act of the mind by which it understands or thinks: the power to understand: knowledge: exact comprehension: agreement of minds: harmony.—adj. knowing, skilful.—adv. Understan′dingly.—Understands′, in Scotch Version of Psalms, used for Understandest. [A.S. understandan, to stand under or in the midst of a thing.]
Understate, un-dėr-stāt′, v.t. to state or represent under or below the truth.—n. Understatement.
Understock, un-dėr-stok′, v.t. to supply with an insufficient amount of stock.
Understood, un-dėr-stood′, pa.t. and pa.p. of understand.
Understrapper, un′dėr-strap-ėr, n. an inferior agent, an underling, a subordinate, a petty fellow.—adj. Un′derstrapping, subservient.
Understratum, un′dėr-strā-tum, n. a substratum:—pl. Un′derstrāta.
Understroke, un-dėr-strōk′, v.i. to underline.
Understudy, un′dėr-stud-i, v.t. and v.i. to study a dramatic part so as to be able to take the place of the actor playing it, if necessary.—n. an actor who prepares a part in this way.
Undertake, un-dėr-tāk′, v.t. to take under one's management: to take upon one's self: to attempt: to answer for, warrant: to take in, understand: to assume, to have charge of.—v.i. to take upon one's self: to be bound: to manage all the arrangements of a burial.—adj. Undertā′kable, capable of being undertaken.—ns. Undertā′ker, one who undertakes, a projector, a contractor: one who is surety or guarantee for another: one who manages funerals: formerly a contractor for the royal revenue in England, one of those who undertook to manage the House of Commons for the king in the 'Addled Parliament' of 1614: one of the English and Scotch settlers in Ireland on forfeited lands in the 16th century; Undertā′king, that which is undertaken: any business or project engaged in.