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ˈnetherward(s, adv. Now rare.
Forms: 1 niþerweardes, nyþerwerd, -wyrd; 3 niðer-, neþer-, noþer-, 4–5 nethire-, 4– netherward(s.
[f. nether adv.2 + -wards).]
Downwards. Also (in form netherward) as adj.
c975Rushw. Gosp. Matt. viii. 32 Unᵹerece..eode all siu suner..niþer-weardes in sae. c1000ælfric Gram. (Z.) 238 Deorsum versum, nyðerwerd. a1100in Napier O.E. Glosses i. 3968 In præceps, nyþerwyrd. c1220Bestiary 561 Fro ðe noule niðerward ne is ȝe [= the mermaid] no man like. a1250Owl & Night. 144 Þeos vle.. heold hire eyen neþerward [v.r. noþerward]. a1400–50Alexander 5048 Moves ȝow to þe nethire-ward. c1400Destr. Troy 7717 Fro the Nauell netherward he was an able horse. c1630Risdon Surv. Devon §215 (1810) 224 Netherward to Great Lynd. 1656Ridgley Pract. Physick 293 Chafe him from above nether-wards. 1865–6W. Whitman When Lilacs last in Door-Yard Bloom'd 6, I watch'd where you pass'd and was lost in the netherward black of the night. 1878Hardy Ret. Native I. vii. 149 But celestial imperiousness, love, wrath, and fervour had proved to be somewhat thrown away on netherward Egdon. 1894Du Maurier Trilby i, Clad in the grey overcoat of a French infantry soldier, continued netherwards by a short striped petticoat. |