The Collaborative International Dictionary
Underlaid \Un`der*laid"\, a. Laid or placed underneath; also, having something laid or lying underneath.
Wiktionary
vb. (en-past of: underlay)
WordNet
n. a pad placed under a carpet [syn: carpet pad, rug pad, underlayment]
v. raise or support (the level of printing) by inserting a piece of paper or cardboard under the type; "underlay the plate"
put (something) under or beneath; "They underlaid athe shingles with roofing paper"
provide with a base, support, lining, or backing; "underlay the boards with joists"
[also: underlaid]
See underlay
Usage examples of "underlaid".
Strong, masculine arms scooped her up and held her against a body that smelled like a breath of fresh night air underlaid with a masculine musk that was familiar.
Alfalfa flourishes best on those mountain valley soils when irrigated, or when these are so underlaid with water as to furnish the plants with moisture.
When they are short, as they must needs be in very stiff subsoils and on thin land underlaid with hard soil, the branches become about as large as the tap roots.
Highest in general suitability, probably, are clay loams underlaid with a moderately porous clay subsoil.
It also, usually, grows well on soils underlaid with yellow clay of more or less tenacity.
However, when sandy or gravelly soils low in fertility are underlaid with the same and the rainfall is sufficient, good crops of clover may be grown if these soils are first sufficiently supplied with vegetable matter and then sufficiently fertilized.
Next in adaptation to the mountain States are, it is thought, certain soils that lie between the Rocky Mountains and the Mississippi, especially such as are in proximity to rivers, or are underlaid with sheet water not far distant from the surface.
Next to these the best crops are grown where congenial soils are underlaid with ground water, not too near nor too distant from the surface.
This means that it will usually grow with much luxuriance in all areas which produce hardwood timber, and are usually covered with a clay or muddy loam soil underlaid with clay.
It has greater power than the common red variety to grow in stiff clays, in sandy soils underlaid with clay, and in areas where moisture is insufficient near the surface soil.
Good crops will not be obtained on soils underlaid with hardpan which comes up near the surface, whatsoever the nature of the top soil may be, since the roots cannot penetrate these.
This means, therefore, that it will grow well in probably all kinds of clay soils and also in loam soils underlaid with clay.
The wind had died down, leaving in its wake a cold, eerie quiet underlaid by the constant, steady hum of traffic intermittently punctuated by a screech of tires and an impatient honk of a horn.
By black caps underlaid with white, Give certain guess at inward light.
Their songs had the same burden,-- intense admiration of the father, and good-will for the son, underlaid with a delicate doubt.