The Collaborative International Dictionary
Underlayer \Un"der*lay`er\, n.
One who, or that which, underlays or is underlaid; a lower layer.
(Mining) A perpendicular shaft sunk to cut the lode at any required depth.
--Weale.
Wiktionary
n. 1 A layer that is below another layer. 2 (context mining English) A perpendicular shaft sunk to cut the lode at any required depth.
Usage examples of "underlayer".
Emanuel Ungaro sea-foam-green silk mousseline wrap dress with a halter collar, no back and a slit clear up her thigh, a strapless Escada with a fitted, silver-embroidered bodice and a full, Cinderella-like skirt with tulle underlayers in silver and blue, and a classic black organza with laser-cut trim by Givenchy.
An underlayer was made of some shiny satiny fabric that fit her like a!
He worked a bit of dip and spat it into a pocket in the biotic underlayer of the all-enveloping helmet.
He was still getting used to the lack of head movement caused by the gelatinous underlayer of the suits.
The nannites that maintained it, that existed throughout the underlayer, could, with time, work out all the wounds on the surface.
A moment later the juice disappeared, absorbed into the underlayer and beginning the long journey to becoming rations.
Emanuel Ungaro sea-foam-green silk mousseline wrap dress with a halter collar, no back and a slit clear up her thigh, a strapless Escada with a fitted, silver-embroidered bodice and a full, Cinderella-like skirt with tulle underlayers in silver and blue, and a classic black organza with laser-cut trim by Givenchy.
Vorreedi was dressed as usual in the underlayers and robes of a middle-ranking ghem-lord of painfully sober preferences, subdued blues and grays.