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ˈunderwood
[under-1 5 d. Cf. MSw. undirvidh.]
1. Small trees or shrubs, coppice-wood or brush-wood, growing beneath higher timber trees.
a1325MS. Rawl. B. 520 fol. 32 b, Þat te heiwes [= high⁓ways]..ben..ilargiste, Þer ase is wode, hegges oþer buskes ore vnderwode. c1380Antecrist in Todd Three Treat. Wyclif (1851) 119 His taile is likenyd to a cedre, [þat] wexyng in to heȝþe passiþ oþer vnderwod. 1467–8Rolls of Parlt. V. 575/2 Every persone or persones, which have bought eny Tymbre, Woode or Underwode. 1480Cov. Leet Bk. 445 The people..throwen down & beren away the vnderwode of þe seid Priour. 1512Act 4 Hen. VIII, c. 18 §17 Underwode growyng uppon the seid landes. a1596Sir T. More (Malone Soc.) Add. i. 65 Thinke when an oake fals, vnderwood shrinkes downe, And yet may liue, though brusd. 1642Fuller Holy & Prof. St. ii. xiii. 100 This underwood serves for supplies to save timber from burning. 1669Worlidge Syst. Agric. (1681) 93 In a few years you may observe many fair Trees to steal up amongst the Under⁓wood. 1733W. Ellis Chiltern & Vale Farm. 128 The Underwood will be fit to fell in..fifteen Years. 1794Mrs. Radcliffe Myst. Udolpho xliv, At a deep recess of the forest,..so overgrown with underwood that they proceeded with difficulty. 1827O. W. Roberts Voy. Centr. Amer. 64 Our way..was nearly free from underwood or any material impediment. 1882‘Ouida’ Maremma I. 46 She made her way through the dense underwood.
attrib.1796W. H. Marshall Planting II. 51 Its branches..very much resemble those of the Beech:..especially in the shrubby underwood state.
b. fig.
a1637B. Jonson Underwoods To Rdr., I am bold to entitle these lesser poems, of later growth, by this [name] of Underwood, out of the analogie they hold to the Forest in my former booke. 1693Dryden Juvenal Ded. (1697) p. xxxiv, But these are the Under-Wood of Satire, rather than the Timber-Trees. 1863Cowden Clarke Shaks. Char. ix. 230 It is from among the underwood of these stately productions..that we bring to remembrance gems of practical wisdom.
2. With a and pl. A quantity or stretch, a special kind, of woody undergrowth.
1541Act 33 Hen. VIII, c. 39 All woodes and vnderwoodes, belonging to your office. 1581–2Catal. Anc. Deeds (1906) V. 484 Breers, brembles, bushes and underwoodes. 1607J. Norden Surv. Dial. iii. 140 Therefore must the Surueyor be heedful..to note what trees are among the underwoods. 1646J. Hall Horæ Vac. 101 Great Oakes breake their own branches and neighbouring underwoods. 1708Lond. Gaz. No. 4475/3 Posting the..Granadiers among the Thickets of an Underwood. 1766Goldsm. Vic. W. iv, Our little habitation was..sheltered with a beautiful underwood behind. 1847Emerson Poems, Humble-bee 29 Rover of the underwoods. 1867M. E. Herbert Cradle L. i. 5 Enormous groves of date-palms.., with an underwood of poinsettias.
fig.a1637B. Jonson (title), Underwoods; consisting of divers poems. [Cf. 1 b.]
3. The wood underlying a veneer.
1862Catal. Internat. Exhib., Brit. II. No. 3411, The veneering..will bear an immense amount of heat or damp before it will strip from the underwood.
Hence ˈunderˌwooded a.
1811[see oak barren s.v. oak 9]. 1861Rossetti in Ruskin Life (1899) 277 A rich sweet country, beautifully wooded, underwooded, and sloped. |