Definition of under

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Under (a.) Lower in position, intensity, rank, or degree; subject; subordinate; -- generally in composition with a noun, and written with or without the hyphen; as, an undercurrent; undertone; underdose; under-garment; underofficer; undersheriff..

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Household :: Household (n.) Those who dwell under the same roof and compose a family.
Wapacut :: Wapacut (n.) The American hawk owl. See under Hawk.
Underlie :: Underlie (n.) See Underlay, n., 1..
Pagurian :: Pagurian (n.) Any one of a tribe of anomuran crustaceans, of which Pagurus is a type; the hermit crab. See Hermit crab, under Hermit..
Lackbrain :: Lackbrain (n.) One who is deficient in understanding; a witless person.
Pope :: Pope (n.) The bishop of Rome, the head of the Roman Catholic Church. See Note under Cardinal..
Willy Nilly :: Willy nilly () See Will I, nill I, etc., under 3d Will..
Have :: Have (v. t.) To understand.
Compurgation :: Compurgation (v. t.) The act or practice of justifying or confirming a man's veracity by the oath of others; -- called also wager of law. See Purgation; also Wager of law, under Wager..
Involuntary :: Involuntary (a.) Not under the influence or control of the will; not voluntary; as, the involuntary movements of the body; involuntary muscle fibers..
Vary :: Vary (v. t.) To embellish; to change fancifully; to present under new aspects, as of form, key, measure, etc. See Variation, 4..
Dubb :: Dubb (n.) The Syrian bear. See under Bear.
Servifor :: Servifor (n.) An undergraduate, partly supported by the college funds, whose duty it formerly was to wait at table. A servitor corresponded to a sizar in Cambridge and Dublin universities..
Electro-muscular :: Electro-muscular (a.) Pertaining the reaction (contraction) of the muscles under electricity, or their sensibility to it..
Roaring :: Roaring (n.) An affection of the windpipe of a horse, causing a loud, peculiar noise in breathing under exertion; the making of the noise so caused. See Roar, v. i., 5..
Colligation :: Colligation (n.) That process by which a number of isolated facts are brought under one conception, or summed up in a general proposition, as when Kepler discovered that the various observed positions of the planet Mars were points in an ellipse..
Water Rat :: Water rat () The beaver rat. See under Beaver.
Asunder :: Asunder (adv.) Apart; separate from each other; into parts; in two; separately; into or in different pieces or places.
Sack :: Sack (v. t.) To plunder or pillage, as a town or city; to devastate; to ravage..
Hackle :: Hackle (v. t.) To tear asunder; to break in pieces.
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