英语词汇“under-earth”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

单词	under-earth
释义	▪ I. ˈunder-earth, n. [under-².] 1. a. The earth or soil lying below the surface. 1765Museum Rust. IV. 157 To defend the roots of my young trees from the damp, raw under-earth. b. Mining. (See quot.) 1883Gresley Gloss. Coal-m. 267 Underearth, a hard bastard fireclay forming the floor of a seam of coal. 2. The regions below the earth. 1878Gladstone Homer iv. 56 Tartaros..standing to the Under-earth as the heaven stands to the Upper..world-surface.1896Boston (Mass.) Youth's Companion 10 Dec. 659/2 The economical resources of the underearth were the goals of the first practical studies of the rocks. ▪ II. ˈunder-ˌearth, a. [under-².] Subterranean, underground. 1592Nashe P. Penilesse K 3, The vnder-earth spirits, are such as lurk in dens and little cauernes of the earth.1613Purchas Pilgrimage ii. i. 104 Philip the Tetrarch..first found out this under-earth passage.1662J. Chandler Van Helmont's Oriat. 322 Paracelsus reducing all things into an under-earth off-spring.1816Byron ‘Could I remount’ 23 The under-earth inhabitants—are they But mingled millions decomposed to clay?
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