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A large, strong rope, reaching from the foremast head to the bowsprit, to support the mast. See Illust. under Ship.

• Underclothes
  Clothes worn under others, especially those worn next the skin for warmth.
• Underrate
  To rate too low; to rate below the value; to undervalue.
• Underdo
  To do less than is requisite or proper; -- opposed to overdo.
• Undersheriffry
  Undershrievalty.
• Underfringe
  A lower fringe; a fringe underneath something.
• Undersold
  p. p. of Undersell.
• Undergroan
  To groan beneath.
• Understatement
  The act of understating, or the condition of being understated; that which is understated; a statement below the truth.
• Illustrous
  Without luster.
• Underhung
  Resting on a track at the bottom, instead of being suspended; -- said of a sliding door.
• Undertapster
  Assistant to a tapster.
• Underline
  To mark a line below, as words; to underscore.
• Underviewer
  See Underlooker.
• Supportful
  Abounding with support.
• Undermoneyed
  Bribed.
• Underwrite
  To write under something else; to subscribe.
• Underbind
  To bind beneath.
• Underpin
  To lay stones, masonry, etc., under, as the sills of a building, on which it is to rest.
• UNDERTIDEUNDERTIME
  The under or after part of the day; undermeal; evening. [Obs.] He, coming home at undertime, there found The fairest creature that he ever saw. Spenser.

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