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osition; belonging to the region below; lower; under; -- opposed to upper. 'Twixt upper, nether, and surrounding fires. Milton. This darksome nether world her light Doth dim with horror and deformity. Spenser. All my nether shape thus grew transformed. Milton.

Lower, nether. [Obs.] Holland.

Lowest; as, the nethermost abyss. Milton.

Scarcely. See Unnethe. [Obs.] Chaucer.

An egg case, especially those of many kinds of mollusks, and of some insects, as the cockroach. Cf. Ooecium.

A large American bombycid moth (Callosamia promethea). Its larva feeds on the sassafras, wild cherry, and other trees, and suspends its cocoon from a branch by a silken band.

Of or pertaining to Prometheus. See Prometheus. "Promethean fire." Shak.

means of fire stolen from heaven. Jupiter, being angry at this, sent Mercury to bind Prometheus to Mount Caucasus, where a vulture preyed upon his liver.

To decoct or prepare for food in hot liquid; to boil; as, to seethe flesh. [Written also seeth.] Set on the great pot, and seethe pottage for the sons of the prophets. 2 Kings iv. 38.

A pot for boiling things; a boiler. Like burnished gold the little seether shone. Dryden.

See Since. [Obs.]

A lover of mistress.

Making love. "To play at sweethearting." W. Black.

A record of fluctuations of temperature made automatically at a distant station.

An apparatus for determining the temperature of a distant point, as by a thermoelectric circuit or otherwise.

th a long rope or chain, as for feeding within certain limits. And by a slender cord was tethered to a stone. Wordsworth.

A game played with rackets and a ball suspended by a string from an upright pole, the object of each side being to wrap the string around the pole by striking the ball in a direction opposite to the other.

In company or association with respect to place or time; as, to live together in one house; to live together in the same age; they walked together to the town. Soldiers can never stand idle long together. Landor.

With difficulty; scarcely. See Uneath. [Written also unethe, unneth, unnethe, unnethes, etc.] [Obs.] Chaucer.

With difficulty. See Uneath. [Obs.] Chaucer.