Designating the lower or bottom part (section, component, segment, etc.) of a person or thing. Also figurative.

Lower, inferior. literary in later use.

Lying or situated below; lower. Obsolete. rare.

Low in position, low-lying; situated below, lower, nether; = inferior, adj. 1; spec. belonging to this lower world, mundane, sublunary.

Lower in position; situated below, or farther down than, something else; nether; subjacent. (Now chiefly in technical use; see also senses A. 3–A. 8)

Lying in the neighbourhood below a certain level, as that of a spectator; subjacent. Now archaic and poetic.

Usually opposed to upper. Designating something less high in position than, or situated below, another (or others) of the same kind.

Occupying a lower position physically; underlying. Obsolete. rare.

Inferior. Obsolete. rare.

= lower, adj. 2. Cf. lowermost, adj.