Un`der*write" (?), v. t. [imp. Underwrote (?), Obs. Underwrit (&?;); p.
p. Underwritten (?), Obs. Underwrit; p. pr. & vb. n. Underwriting.] 1.
To write under something else; to subscribe.
What addition and change I have made I have here underwritten.
Bp. Sanderson.
2. To subscribe one's name to for insurance, especially for marine
insurance; to write one's name under, or set one's name to, as a policy
of insurance, for the purpose of becoming answerable for loss or
damage, on consideration of receiving a certain premium per cent; as,
individuals, as well as companies, may underwrite policies of
insurance. B. Jonson.
The broker who procures the insurance ought not, by underwriting the
policy, to deprive the parties of his unbiased testimony.
Marshall.
Un`der*write", v. i. To practice the business of insuring; to take a
risk of insurance on a vessel or the like.
Un"der*writ`er (?), n. One who underwrites his name to the conditions
of an insurance policy, especially of a marine policy; an insurer.
Un"der*writ`ing, n. The business of an underwriter,
Un`der*yoke" (?), v. t. To subject to the yoke; to make subject.
Wyclif.
Un`de*serve" (?), v. t. [1st pref. un- + deserve.] To fail to deserve.
[Obs.] Milton.
Un`de*serv"er (?), n. One of no merit; one who is nor deserving or
worthy. [Obs.] Shak.
Un`de*sign"ing (?), a. Having no artful, ulterior, or fraudulent
purpose; sincere; artless; simple.
Un`de*stroy"a*ble (?), a. Indestructible.
Un`de*ter"mi*na*ble (?), a. Not determinable; indeterminable. Locke.
Un`de*ter"mi*nate (?), a. Nor determinate; not settled or certain;
indeterminate. South. — Un`de*ter"mi*nate*ness, n. Dr. H. More.
Un`de*ter`mi*na"tion (?), n. Indetermination. Sir M. Hale.
Un*dev"il (?), v. t. [1st pref. un- + devil.] To free from possession
by a devil or evil spirit; to exorcise. [Obs.]
They boy having gotten a habit of counterfeiting . . . would not be
undeviled by all their exorcisms.
Fuller.
Un`de*vo"tion (?), n. Absence or want of devotion.
Un*did" (?), imp. of Undo.
Un*dif`fer*en"ti*a`ted (?), a. Not differentiated; specifically
(Biol.), homogenous, or nearly so; — said especially of young or
embryonic tissues which have not yet undergone differentiation (see
Differentiation, 3), that is, which show no visible separation into
their different structural parts.
Un*dig"e*nous (?), a. [L. unda a wave + -genous.] Generated by water.
[R.] Kirwan.
Un`di*gest"i*ble (?), a. Indigestible.
Un*dight" (?), v. t. [1st pref. un- + dight.] To put off; to lay aside,
as a garment. [Obs.] Spenser.
Un*digne" (?), a. Unworthy. [Obs.] Chaucer.
Un*dine" (?), n. [G. undine, or F. ondin, ondine, from L. unda a wave,
water.] One of a class of fabled female water spirits who might receive
a human soul by intermarrying with a mortal.
Un*di"o*cesed (?), a. Unprovided with a diocese; having no diocese.
Milton.
Un`di*rect" (?), v. t. [1st pref. un- + direct, v. t.] To misdirect; to
mislead. [Obs.]
who make false fires to undirect seamen in a tempest.
Fuller.
Un`di*rect", a. [Pref. un- not + direct.] Indirect.
Un`di*rect"ed, a. [In senses 1 and 2, pref. un- not + directed; in
sense 3 properly p. p. of undirect.] 1. Not directed; not guided; left
without direction.