undersoil (undersoil)

Soil beneath the surface; subsoil. 6599 War, Open or understood , must be resolved. Milton , P. L., i. 662. 6. To recognize as implied or meant, although not expre ed; supply mentally, as a word nece ary to bring out the sense of an author: as, in the phrase 'All are mortal,' we must under stand the word men, living beings, or the like. If you say to your grandmother "Ma'am, it's a fine day," or what not, she would find in the words no other meaning than their outward and visible one; but say so tic meanings in them. undertake Their once flaming regard is sobered by time in either breast, and, losing in violence what it gains in extent, it becomes a thorough good understanding . Emerson, E ays, 1st ser., р. 169. Men of Understanding, a sect which flourished in the Low Countries about 1411, profe ing doctrines similar to those of the Brethren of the Holy Spirit. It maintained that the then present reign of the Holy Spirit afforded a higher illumination and authority than that of the Scripture; that the only resurrection of the body ever to take place had already taken place in Christ; and that the spirit is not defiled by bodily sin. - Predicables of the pure understanding. See predicable. accompaniment of a song; a refrain. Weepe, Shepheard! weepe, to make my undersong. Spenser , Daphnaïda. 2. A subordinate strain; an underlying meaning. Landor.