Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Under the earth; subterranean.
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Examples
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But even on windless days the air always smelt of something under-earth: sulphur, iron, coal, or acid.
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She appears in her under-earth to the reptilian chromaticism of Mozart's D minor String Quartet finale (K421/417b) and the strange end-phrase repeated notes sound incantatory as she calls up the maroons to do the devil's work.
Savage Boundaries 2002
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I am dark as the sunless under-earth, And yellow as the fire that consumes, And white as bone, And red as blood.
The Plumed Serpent 2003
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Specs, ladies and gentlemen -- fit you with specs that will enable you to penetrate even the darkness of the under-earth.
Grace Harlowe's Overland Riders Among the Kentucky Mountaineers Jessie Graham [pseud.] Flower
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That the under-earth, like to the earth around us,
On the Nature of Things Titus Lucretius Carus 1910
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We can not believe that this withdrawal of material from the under-earth has resulted in the formation of open underground spaces.
Outlines of the Earth's History A Popular Study in Physiography Nathaniel Southgate Shaler 1873
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When the soil water is as far as possible exhausted, the alkali coating may represent a considerable part of the soluble matter of the soil, and in the next rainy season it may return in whole or in part to the under-earth, again to be drawn in the manner before described to the upper level.
Outlines of the Earth's History A Popular Study in Physiography Nathaniel Southgate Shaler 1873
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This substance probably arises from the effect of heat contained in old lavas which are in contact with limestone in the deep under-earth.
Outlines of the Earth's History A Popular Study in Physiography Nathaniel Southgate Shaler 1873
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When at last the time came for his final departure, he did not pass through the valley of death, as must all mortals, but he penetrated through a cave into the under-earth, and found his way to "the root of heaven."
American Hero-Myths A Study in the Native Religions of the Western Continent Daniel Garrison Brinton 1868
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This is universally ascribed by the proprietors and neighbors to the soil or its under-earth being too stiff and close to permit the descent of water; and
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