[UNDER-2.] Subterranean, underground.
1592. Nashe, P. Penilesse, K 3. The vnder-earth spirits, are such as lurk in dens and little cauernes of the earth.
1613. Purchas, Pilgrimage, II. i. 104. Philip the Tetrarch … first found out this under-earth passage.
1662. J. Chandler, Van Helmont’s Oriat., 322. Paracelsus reducing all things into an under-earth off-spring.
1816. Byron, ‘Could I remount,’ 23. The under-earth inhabitants—are they But mingled millions decomposed to clay?
