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ˈunderpart, n.
[under-1 5 b, 6 b. Also under a. 1 b.]
1. A lower part or portion.
1662Wase Lat. Dict., Subtundo, to knock, or beat the under-part of any thing. 1731P. Miller Gard. Dict. s.v. Leaves, Their Leaves..have shot out young Plants from their under-Parts. 1797Encycl. Brit. (ed. 3) XVII. 394/2 From the upper part of the lower deck to the under part of the main rail. 1825Jamieson, Fair-grass,..said to be [so] denominated from the whiteness of the under part of the leaf.
b. spec. A part of the under-side of the body (of a bird or animal).
1783Latham Gen. Synop. Birds II. 362 The under parts wholly white. 1815Stephens in Shaw's Gen. Zool. IX. i. 21 The rest of the under parts dirty yellow. 1873J. E. Taylor Half-hours in Green Lanes iv. 126 You could see their..black breasts and white underparts.
2. A subordinate part in action, esp. a minor rôle in a play; one who acts a subordinate part.
1679Dryden Troilus & Cress. Pref. ⁋20 Making Œdipus the best and bravest person, and even Jocasta but an under⁓part to him. 1693― Juvenal (1697) p. lxxix, In the famous Pastoral of Guarini,..where Corisca and the Satyre are the Under-parts. 1711Addison Spect. No. 7 ⁋ 1 My Friend, I found, acted but an under Part at his Table. 1746Francis tr. Hor., Sat. i. ix. 98 You should have a Man of Art; One who might act an under-part. 1780J. Berington State Eng. Catholics 66 Plot was set up against plot, all of them under-parts of the same grand drama. 1822–7Good Study Med. (1829) V. 490 The kidneys play merely an under-part, and are only secondarily affected.
3. A subordinate part or portion; a subdivision.
1711Shaftesbury Charac. III. 113 Our religious Pastors..have quitted their substantial Service, and uniform Division into Parts and Under-Parts. 1715Pope Iliad Pref. ⁋9 Nor is this..only in the principal Quality which constitutes the Main of each Character, but even in the Under-parts of it. |