[UNDER-1 10 a, 4 a.]
1. trans. To feed insufficiently; to stint in food.
1659. Gauden, Tears Ch., III. xxviii. 363. The Fanaticks strive to underfeed and starve it to a despicable feeblenesse.
1842. A. Combe, Physiol. Digestion, ix. (1845), 75. Underfeeding and great mortality of the poor.
1861. Goldw. Smith, Inaugural Lect., 32. The folly of overworking and underfeeding the labourer.
2. To feed with fuel from below.
1904. Jrnl. Franklin Inst., Dec., 439. He was convinced that the fundamental principle of underfeeding was a success.
