Undertaker, one who takes a business upon himself, charges himself with sth.: “for Cassio, let me be his u.” Oth. IV, 1, 224 (let me take charge of him, dispatch him. German: ich will ihn übernehmen. cf. Undertake 1 b). Absolutely, == one who makes any thing his own business, a meddler: “nay, if you be an u., I am for you,” Tw. III, 4, 349.
Shakespeare Lexicon. Alexander Schmidt. Berlin. Georg Reimer. 1902.
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