The two words were simple, but she thought they had an under-meaning, as though he were mocking either himself or her, or both.
I answered, but half noting the under-meaning of her words, my mind running on deck state-rooms and the like.
There is not a sentence nor a rhyme, sung or uttered by Ariel or Caliban, throughout the play, which has not this under-meaning.
The under-meaning, the terrible regret for irrevocable ill, naturally escaped him.
"sense, import, intent," c.1300, from mean (v.).