undertenancy

[Pref. under-, and Eng. tenancy.] A tenancy or tenure under another tenant or le ee; the tenure or position of an undertenant. un-der-těn-ant, s. [Pref. under-, and English tenant.] A tenant who hires and holds a house, farm, ., from another tenant, and not directly from the landlord. "Settle and secure the undertenants; to the end there may be a repose and establishment of every subject's estate."-Davies: Hist. of Ireland. *ŭn - der-tide, *un'-der-time, subst . [A. S. under tid.] [UNDERN.] The portion or division of the day which included undern. (Generally used of the after part of the day.) "He, coming at home at undertime , there found The fairest creature that he ever saw." Spenser: F. Q., III. vii. 13.