Un"der*song` (?), n.

1.

The burden of a song; the chorus; the refrain.

Dryden.

2.

Accompanying strain; subordinate and underlying meaning; accompaniment; undertone.

In the very [poetry] there often an undersong of sense which none beside the poetic mind . . . can comprehend. Landor.

 

© Webster 1913.

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