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▪ I. ˈunder-earth, n.
[under-2.]
1. a. The earth or soil lying below the surface.
1765Museum Rust. IV. 157 To defend the roots of my young trees from the damp, raw under-earth.
b. Mining. (See quot.)
1883Gresley Gloss. Coal-m. 267 Underearth, a hard bastard fireclay forming the floor of a seam of coal.
2. The regions below the earth.
1878Gladstone Homer iv. 56 Tartaros..standing to the Under-earth as the heaven stands to the Upper..world-surface. 1896Boston (Mass.) Youth's Companion 10 Dec. 659/2 The economical resources of the underearth were the goals of the first practical studies of the rocks.
▪ II. ˈunder-ˌearth, a.
[under-2.]
Subterranean, underground.
1592Nashe P. Penilesse K 3, The vnder-earth spirits, are such as lurk in dens and little cauernes of the earth. 1613Purchas Pilgrimage ii. i. 104 Philip the Tetrarch..first found out this under-earth passage. 1662J. Chandler Van Helmont's Oriat. 322 Paracelsus reducing all things into an under-earth off-spring. 1816Byron ‘Could I remount’ 23 The under-earth inhabitants—are they But mingled millions decomposed to clay? |