Crossword clues for nether
nether
- Those living abroad get help returning, with first instalments of support payments of regular amounts
- These regions are hell!
- Like hell?
- Word with world or regions
- Situated below
- Word with "world"
- Lower, as some regions
- It precedes lands, world or regions
- Down under
- Word before most or world
- Some regions
- Situated beneath the earth's surface
- Lower, as some "regions"
- Lower, as a "region"
- Like certain "regions"
- European "lands" starter
- Deep down?
- Down below
- Like some regions
- Lower, like regions
- Infernal
- ___ regions
- World leader?
- Under
- One of the worlds
- Woman’s behind curtain material in the lower area
- Subordinate gives name and number
- New number underground
- New anaesthetic for bottom
- Lower in tone, the remarks
- Lower in position
- Lower in number after noon
- Lower gas number
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Nether \Neth"er\ (n[e^][th]"[~e]r), a. [OE. nethere, neithere, AS. ni[eth]era, fr. the adv. ni[eth]er downward; akin to neo[eth]an below, beneath, D. neder down, G. nieder, Sw. nedre below, nether, a. & adv., and also to Skr. ni down. 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.
'Twixt upper, nether, and surrounding fires.
--Milton.
This darksome nether world her light
Doth dim with horror and deformity.
--Spenser.
All my nether shape thus grew transformed.
--Milton.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Old English niþera, neoþera "down, downwards, below, beneath," from Proto-Germanic *nitheraz (cognates: Old Saxon nithar, Old Norse niðr, Old Frisian nither, Dutch neder, German nieder), from comparative of PIE *ni- "down, below" (cognates: Sanskrit ni "down," nitaram "downward," Greek neiothen "from below," Old Church Slavonic nizŭ "low, down"). Has been replaced in most senses by lower (adj.).
Wiktionary
Etymology 1
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1 lower; under. 2 Lying beneath, or conceived as lying beneath, the Earth’s surface. adv. 1 down; downward. 2 low; low down. Etymology 2
alt. 1 (context transitive UK dialectal Northern England Scotland English) To bring or thrust down; bring or make low; lower; abase; humble. 2 (context transitive UK dialectal Northern England Scotland English) To constrict; straiten; confine; restrict; suppress; lay low; keep under; press in upon; vex; harass; oppress. 3 (context transitive UK dialectal Scotland English) To pinch or stunt with cold or hunger; check in growth; shrivel; straiten. 4 (context transitive UK dialectal Scotland English) To shrink or huddle, as with cold; be shivery; tremble. 5 (context transitive UK dialectal Scotland English) To depreciate; disparage; undervalue. n. 1 (context UK dialectal Scotland English) oppression; stress; a withering or stunting influence. 2 (context mining English) A trouble; a fault or dislocation in a seam of coal. v
1 (context transitive UK dialectal Northern England Scotland English) To bring or thrust down; bring or make low; lower; abase; humble. 2 (context transitive UK dialectal Northern England Scotland English) To constrict; straiten; confine; restrict; suppress; lay low; keep under; press in upon; vex; harass; oppress. 3 (context transitive UK dialectal Scotland English) To pinch or stunt with cold or hunger; check in growth; shrivel; straiten. 4 (context transitive UK dialectal Scotland English) To shrink or huddle, as with cold; be shivery; tremble. 5 (context transitive UK dialectal Scotland English) To depreciate; disparage; undervalue.
WordNet
Gazetteer
Wikipedia
Nether may refer to:
- "The Nether", name of a hell-like dimension in the video game Minecraft
- Nether (video game), a first-person multiplayer survival video game for Microsoft Windows
Nether is a first-person multiplayer survival game for Windows developed by Phosphor Games and was first available October 29, 2013.
Usage examples of "nether".
Enter Magee Mor Matthew, a rugged rough rugheaded kern, in strossers with a buttoned codpiece, his nether stocks bemired with clauber of ten forests, a wand of wilding in his hand.
In the fourteenth verse of the third part, there come the lines: clomb above the eastern bar the horned Moon, with one bright star within the nether tip.
I declare your copemate is in the nether direction just waiting to roast your foul carcass.
LORDE our heavenly father, almightie and everlastyng God, whiche hast safely broughte us to the begynnyng of thys day: defende us in the same wyth thy myghtye power, and graunte that this daie we fall into no synne, nether rune into any kinde of daunger: but that al our doinges may be ordred by thy governaunce, to doe alwayes that is rightuous in thy sighte: through Jesus Christe our Lorde.
I thought him a very fine actor indeed, but now I realize that he was of the line that descended from Irving, in which descent all the beauty and diablerie of that great player had been lost, and only the mannerisms -- grunting, eye-flashing, and gnawing the nether lip -- remained.
Dain as a prince of Nether, Mandrian prejudice against the eldin grew from deep roots, fostered by the Reformed Church.
My nether female parts I could feel getting engorged and warm and moist.
This crying on of the hound was called forth by a chase up the street, in which the Goshawk beheld Farina pursue and capture a stalwart runaway, who refused with all his might to be brought back, striving every two and three of his tiptoe steps to turn against the impulse Farina had got on his neck and nether garments.
Then we marched on without meeting with any opposition, almost indeed without seeing anybody, for the populations of the towns and villages along our route had for the most part fled, fearing lest they should be caught between the two rival armies and ground to powder like grain between the upper and the nether stones.
Nether soon and force his nobles and knights to honor their oaths to him, then he might as well stay here in the forests of Nold, an exile forever.
A remark by Gees set them all talking of place names--Oswaldstwhistle, Odder, Much Hadham, Nether Wallop, Wig-Wig, and other curiosities of naming, provided light chatter through which Gees observed that neither McCoul nor his daughter appeared to appreciate the really good plain cooking of the first two courses.
The ambassadors from Nether have been pestering us for days, trying to gain audience with you.
We assimilate the petty terrors of childhood, we banish them to the nether regions of our pysche, where no prying or force of will or brave desire can penetrate.
Mary Alice stood at my elbow, listening to the in sectile low fidelity of my tin speaker and, with her thumb, trying to relieve the undue stricture of the nether end of her yellow garment.
The flowers gave off a red reflection, and the white trees burned in the green gates like funeral torches at the gates of the nether world to which the spirit of the dead Takel was on its way.