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| From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
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Underlie \Un`der*lie"\, v. t. [AS. underlicgan. See {Under}, and {Lie} to be prostrate.] 1. To lie under; to rest beneath; to be situated under; as, a stratum of clay underlies the surface gravel. 2. To be at the basis of; to form the foundation of; to support; as, a doctrine underlying a theory. 3. To be subject or amenable to. [R.] The knight of Ivanhoe . . . underlies the challenge of Brian der Bois Guilbert. --Sir W. Scott. | |
| From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
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Underlay \Un"der*lay`\, n. 1. (Mining) The inclination of a vein, fault, or lode from the vertical; a hade; -- called also {underlie}. 2. (Print.) 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. | |
| From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
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Underlie \Un`der*lie"\, v. i. To lie below or under. | |
| From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
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Underlie \Un"der*lie`\, n. See {Underlay}, n., 1. | |
