[UNDER-1 4 d.]
† 1. (See quot.) Obs.
1589. Puttenham, Eng. Poesie, III. xix. (Arb.), 211. Ye haue another sort of repetition…. The Greeks call him Epizeuxis, the Latines Subiunctio, we may call him the vnderlay.
2. a. A piece added to the sole of a shoe.
1612. Pasquil’s Night-cap (1877), 25. She could line her shoes with vnder-laies, So cunningly, that few the fault did spie.
b. = EKE sb.1 2 b.
1641. Best, Farm. Bks. (Surtees), 63. They will or within a monethes space worke downe to the bottome of the hive, and then must yow give them an underlay. There is in an underlay usually five wreathes, viz., one for the hive to stand within, and fower belowe: yow are to putte in an underlay two spelles.
c. A piece inserted as a prop or support, esp. so as to make one part level with another.
1683. Moxon, Mech. Exerc., Printing, ii. ¶ 1. Presses [should] have … an even Horizontal Floor to stand on, That when the Presses are set up their Feet shall need no Underlays. Ibid., xxiv. ¶ 1. The aforesaid Battens will also keep these Underlays from working out.
d. Printing. A piece of paper or cardboard placed under type, cuts, or plates, to raise these to the required level.
1683. Moxon, Mech. Exerc., Printing, xxiv. 291. He tries thicker or thinner Vnder-lays till he have evened the Vnderlay with the Face of the Letter.
1688. R. Holme, Armoury, III. 118/2. Underlays, are small slips of Scabbord put under letters.
1824. J. Johnson, Typogr., II. xv. 521. They will be found to sink a little from the repeated impressions, consequently the cuts will require an additional underlay.
1880. Scribner’s Mag., May, 43/1. He puts a proper underlay under every cut … that contains much black surface, and fairly braces it to resist hard impression.
3. Mining. = DIP sb. 5, HADE sb.2 (See quots. 1831–55, and cf. UNDERLIE sb.)
1831–3. Encycl. Metrop. (1845), VIII. 203/1. The underlay of a lode is a term used to denote the direction of its inclination with regard to the horizon.
1855. [J. R. Leifchild], Cornwall, 101. The dip of a lode … being its inclination from a perpendicular line, or its underlay.
1880. C. C. Adley, Rep. to Pioneer Mining Co., Lim., 2 Oct., 1. A small shaft will also be sunk,… following the underlay of the lode.
attrib. 1850. Weale, Dict. Terms, Underlay shaft, a shaft sunk on the course of a lode.
1882. U.S. Rep. Prec. Met., 461. The mine is entered by an underlay or inclined shaft 150 feet deep.
