understand

Thus, when he drew up instructions in lawyer language, he expressed the important words by an initial, a medial, or a final consonant, and made scratches for all the words between; his clerks, however, understood him very well.

‘I understand that the district was considered a sort of sanctuary,’ the Chief was saying.

LAUNE: Ay, and what I do too: look thee, I'll but lean, and my staff understands me.

SPEED: It stands under thee, indeed.

LAUNCE:Why, stand-under and under-stand is all one.