unco, adv., I, 370, 5: unusually, very.
uncouth, vnkowth, vnkuth, vnketh, I, 344, 25; III, 245, 11: (A. S. uncúð) unknown, strange. See unco.
vnder, Grenwich, III, 358, 78: perhaps, below, further down the Thames.
vnder hand, shott it vnder hand, III, 199, 29; 202, 33; shot under his hand, III, 204, 26: Dr Furnivall and Mr C. J. Longman suggest, putting the bow horizontally, in which case you shoot with the arrow under the left hand, instead of beside it, as in shooting with the bow vertical. Ascham speaks of an underhand shaft, but without defining it: “The underhande [shafte] must have a small breste, to go cleane awaye oute of the bowe; the forehande muste have a bigge breste, to bere the great myght of the bowe.” Toxophilus, 1545, ed. Arber, p. 126. And again, as cited by Dr W. Hand Browne, of Johns Hopkins University: “Men doubt yet, in looking at the mark, what way is best, above or beneth hys hand”; “a byg brested shafte for hym that shoteth under hande, bycause it will hobble.” Upon which Dr Browne remarks, “As he is here speaking only of taking aim, under-hand shooting would seem to be done when the archer raised his bow high, and looked at the mark under the arrow-hand.”
under night, I, 100, 1: in the night.
vndergoe, II, 59, 33: undertake.
undertaking, be your, IV, 152, 6; 153, D 7: will undertake, manage for you.
vnfaine, III, 355, 14: not glad.
unfriends, III, 470 b: enemies.
vngoodly, III, 322 a: unhandsome.