underproduction (underprodukshon)

Production that is le than normal, or inadequate to the demand. underproof (un-der-pröf'), a. Having a greater specific gravity than 0.91984: applied to alcoholic liquors. In reducing underproof liquors to proof, a spirit of the specific gravity 0.825 is taken as the standard for estimation. Thus, if it take 10 volumes of spirit having the specific gravity 0.825 to reduce a sample to sample would be as 10 underproof, 6598 underpropper (un-der-prop'ér), п. One who or that which underprops or supports; a stay; a support. Sir T. More.