Nether
['neðə] or ['nɛðɚ]
Definition
(adj.) located below or beneath something else; 'nether garments'; 'the under parts of a machine' .
(adj.) lower; 'gnawed his nether lip' .
Typist: Osborn--From WordNet
Definition
(a.) Situated down or below; lying beneath, or in the lower part; having a lower position; belonging to the region below; lower; under; -- opposed to upper.
Checker: Wilbur
Synonyms and Synonymous
a. Lower.
Typed by Adele
Definition
adj. beneath another lower: infernal.—n. Neth′erlander an inhabitant of Holland.—adj. Neth′erlandish Dutch.—n.pl. Neth′erlings stockings.—adjs. Neth′ermore lower; Neth′ermost lowest.—n.pl. Neth′erstocks (Shak.) short stockings or half-hose for the leg as distinguished from trunk hose for the thigh.—advs. Neth′erward -s downward.
Editor: Ricky
Examples
- He still wore knee-breeches, and dark cotton stockings on his nether limbs; but they were not _the_ breeches. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
- The Upper and Nether Mill Stone in Modern Dress. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- They wandered onward till they reached the nether margin of the heath, where it became marshy and merged in moorland. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- I had mumbled but a lame mass an thou hadst broken my jaw, for the piper plays ill that wants the nether chops. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- The upper and the nether mill-stone is still a most useful device. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- Her eyes wandered restlessly over the distant prospect, and she bit her nether lip to stop that busy mouth. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
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