- (n.) To put a tap on (a shoe).
- (v.t.) To raise or support by something laid under; as, to underlay a cut, plate or the like, for printing. See Underlay, n., 2.
- (n.) A thickness of paper, pasteboard or the like, placed under a cut or stereotype plate or under type, in the from, to bring it or any part of it, to the proper height; also, something placed back of a part of the tympan, so as to secure the right impression.
- (v.i.) To incline from the vertical; to hade; -- said of a vein, fault or lode.
- (v.t.) To lay beneath; to put under.
- (n.) The inclination of a vein, fault or lode from the vertical; a hade; -- called also underlie.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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