Undergrowing

ppl. a. [UNDER-¹ 4 a, 8 a.]

  Undergrowing should prob. be read in the gloss. (a. 1400), in Rel. Ant., I. 6 Frutex, undirglowyng.

  † 1.  Arising, occurring. Obs.^–1

a. 1440.  Found. St. Bartholomew’s (E.E.T.S.), 16. But dyuerse vndirgrowynge ympedymentys, and, at the last, lettyng the Article of death, that he wold had fulfillid be myght nat.

  2.  Growing beneath trees, etc.; growing up from below.

1598.  Sidney’s Arcadia, III. 349. Sitting her downe vnder one of them, and making a posie of the fayre vndergrowing flowers.

1616.  W. Browne, Brit. Past., II. i. 17. On his legs Like fetters hang the vnder growing Segs.