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verb
Underlay  v. t.  (past & past part. underlaid; pres. part. underlaying)  
1.
To lay beneath; to put under.
2.
To raise or support by something laid under; as, to underlay a cut, plate, or the like, for printing. See Underlay, n., 2.
3.
To put a tap on (a shoe). (Prov. Eng.)


Underlie  v. t.  (past underlay; past part. underlain; pres. part. underlying)  
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."


Underlay  v. i.  (past & past part. underlaid; pres. part. underlaying)  (Mining) To incline from the vertical; to hade; said of a vein, fault, or lode.


Underlie  v. i.  (past underlay; past part. underlain; pres. part. underlying)  To lie below or under.


noun
Underlay  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 form, 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.





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... own country. The Home Rule Act was on the Statute Book, and though not in legal operation it was present in all minds; and now on a supreme issue—the blood-tax—Ireland's right to be treated as self-governing was recognized in fact. The argument which underlay implicitly Redmond's whole contention was never set out; it was contentious, politically, and he wisely avoided it. He spoke for a nation to which autonomy had been accorded by statute; he preferred men to feel for themselves rather than be asked to admit ...
— John Redmond's Last Years • Stephen Gwynn
... and of the thought which develops with language—than their descendants are now. Even in that earlier stage of development, however, man sought for God. If he thought, mistakenly, to find Him in this or that external object, he was not wrong in the conviction that underlay his search—the conviction that God is at no time afar off from ...
— The Idea of God in Early Religions • F. B. Jevons
... and weak in his philosophy, did see with an English freeman's political instinct the practical bearings of his subject, and in his broad, comprehensive survey disclosed that large American apprehension of freedom and nationality which underlay the best thought of his time. His pamphlet is not a piece of elegant writing, and it is introduced by superficial theorizing; but the practical value is great. Thoughts which have so entered into our political consciousness ...
— Noah Webster - American Men of Letters • Horace E. Scudder
... everything that he read or wrote. When his attention was drawn to an illuminating essay on the poet Lermontov he was pleased with it, not because it demonstrated Lermontov's position in the literary history of Russia, but because it pointed out the moral aims which underlay the wild Byronism of his works. He reproached the novelist Leskov, who had sent him his latest novel, for the "exuberance" of his flowers of speech and for his florid sentences—beautiful in their way, he says, ...
— The Forged Coupon and Other Stories • Leo Tolstoy
... the voices, thus emphasizing the scare that underlay the sight of that demoniacal name at the foot of ...
— The Hollow Needle • Maurice Leblanc


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