▪ I. underˈbite, v.
(under-1 10 a.)
| 1876 P. G. Hamerton Etching & Etchers 427 It is better to underbite a plate in the darks than to overbite it, because if underbitten in these lines it is easily darkened afterwards by rebiting. |
▪ II. ˈunderbite, n.
[under-1, after overbite.]
The projection of the lower jaw or the lower incisors beyond the upper.
Not a term used in Dentistry.
| 1976 M. Machlin Pipeline xlvi. 484 Coutts was a big lantern jawed man with a pronounced underbite that gave his chin an appearance something like an Arctic ice⁓breaker. 1982 Guardian 26 Oct. 8/6 You stick your jaw way out until it's almost as if you have an underbite. |