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t. [ He the savour under nom Which that the roses and the lilies caste. Chaucer , Second Nun's Tale, 1. 243. Have hired me to undermine the duche . Shak., 2 Hen. VI., i. 2. 98. 3. To injure, weaken, or destroy insidiously or indirectly; wear away; wear out; sap. The constitution became so undermined [by ostitis] that I deemed amputation of the thigh nece ary. J. M. Car no chan, Operative Surgery, p. 61. underminet (un'dėr-min), n. 1. Same as mine2 , under-life (un'dėr-lif), n. Life below the sur- face; hence, a way of living apart and differ- 2 (a). ent from the life open to the common know- ledge or view. Harper's Mag . , LXXVI. 753. [Rare.] underline (un-der-lin'), v . t . 1. To mark under- neath or below with a line; underscore: as, to underline words in a letter. - 21. To influence secretly. They put fire in the undermines , weening to haue cast downe the wall. Hakluyt's Voyages, II. S6. 2. A cave. Holland, Camden, p. 650. underminer (un-der-mi'nėr), n. 1. One who undermines, saps, or excavates. Shak., All's Well, i. 1.131.-2. Figuratively, one who clandestinely subverts or injures; one who secretly 3. To take up; reprove; reproach. Inpacient is he that wol nat ben ytaught ne under no me Chaucer, Parson's Tale. Who-so vndernymeth me here-of I hat hym dedly after. Piers Plowman (B), v. 115. undernote (un'der-not), n. A low or subdued note; an undertone. How every pause is filled with undernotes . Shelley, Pro me the us Unbound, iv. 1. undernoted (un'dėr-nō"ted), a . Noted below or beneath: as, the undernoted quantities. undern-songt, n. An office sung at undern, or nine o'clock in the morning. Rock . underntimet, n. See undertime . underpart (un-der-pärt'), v. t. To divide (a part) and a ign subordinate portions of it. [Rare.] Then one part Is under - parted to a couple of clerks. B. Jonson, Staple of News, i. 2. underpay