nether

comparative rare nethermore · superlative nethermost

1. Lower; under.

   The disappointed child’s nether lip quivered.

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   And yet another marvel, the nether side of the canopy over the high seats was encrusted with lapis lazuli, and in that feigned dome of heaven burned the twelve signs of the zodiac, every star a diamond that shone with its own light.

   1922, E[ric] R[ücker] Eddison, The Worm Ouroboros: A Romance, London: Jonathan Cape […], →OCLC, page 3

   Synonyms: bottom, lower

2. Lying beneath, or conceived as lying beneath, the Earth’s surface.

   the nether regions

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   When one thinks of the tremendous forces of the upper and the nether world which play for the mastery of the soul of a woman during the few years in which she passes from plastic girlhood to the ripe maturity of womanhood,

   1873, Mark Twain, The Gilded Age, page 187

   Synonyms: subsurface, subterranean

comparative more nether · superlative most nether

1. Down; downward.
2. Low; low down.

1. Alternative letter-case form of the Nether.

present singular third person nethers · participle present nethering · participle past nethered · past nethered · alternative nither

1. Northern EnglandScotlandUKdialectaltransitiveTo bring or thrust down; bring or make low; lower; abase; humble.
2. Northern EnglandScotlandUKdialectaltransitiveTo constrict; straiten; confine; restrict; suppress; lay low; keep under; press in upon; vex; harass; oppress.
3. ScotlandUKdialectaltransitiveTo pinch or stunt with cold or hunger; check in growth; shrivel; straiten.
4. ScotlandUKdialectaltransitiveTo shrink or huddle, as with cold; be shivery; tremble.
5. ScotlandUKdialectaltransitiveTo depreciate; disparage; undervalue.

plural nethers · alternative nither

1. ScotlandUKdialectalOppression; stress; a withering or stunting influence.
2. businessA trouble; a fault or dislocation in a seam of coal.

1. A dangerous, hell-like underworld dimension in the game Minecraft, accessed via an obsidian portal, filled with lava, unique mobs, and resources.