underexposed (underekspozd)

In pho tog., not exposed to the action of light for a sufficient time to make a good picture: said of a negative, or in general of any work requiring to be completed by development. Also expre ed by under - timed. Two plates were purposely under - exposed on a portrait. Wilson's Photographic Mag ., No. 386, p. 61. underfangt (un-der-fang'), v. t. [Early mod. E. also underfong ; under fang eth , etc., being a umed from the pret. and pp.; inf. prop. under fon (ind. underfo , pret. underfeng , underveng , irreg. underfonge, pp. * under fan gen , under fon gen , under fon), under fon (pret. underfēng , pp. under fan gen ) (= OHG. untarfahan ), undertake, under , under, + fön , take, catch, seize, receive: see fang , v. In defs. 3 and 4 the sense is forced, as if the verb were a new formation, under + fang .] 1. To undertake. He undirfongith a gret peyne That undirtakith to drynke up Seyne. 2. To accept; receive. Rom . of the Rose , 1. 5709. The pope and his prelates presentes under fon gen , And meedeth men hem-seluen to meyntene heore lawes. Piers Plowman (A), iii. 208. To thi mercy, lord, me undirfonge , The tyde is ebbid, & no more wole flowe. Hymns to Virgin , etc. (E. E. T. S.), p. 69. 3. To insnare; entrap; deceive by false suggestions. [Rare.] And some by sleight he eke doth underfong . Spenser, F. Q., V. ii. 7. Nashe. 4. To support or guard from beneath. [Rare.] Mounts underfonging and enflancking them. underfeed (un-der-fēd'), v. t.; pret. and pp. un derfed, ppr. underfeeding. To supply with too little food; feed insufficiently. Bp. Gauden. The vast ma of men are overworked and underfed . Harper's Mag ., LXXVIII. 159. under fell owt (un'der-fel"ō), n. A mean, sorry fellow; a low wretch. Sir P. Sidney , Arcadia, ii. [Rare.]