Word
Underlay
How many syllables?
3 Syllables
How it's divided?
un-der-lay
Definition
- v. t. - To lay beneath; to put under.
- 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. - To put a tap on (a shoe).
- v. i. - To incline from the vertical; to hade; -- said of a
vein, fault, or lode.
- n. - The inclination of a vein, fault, or lode from the
vertical; a hade; -- called also underlie.
- 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.
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