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Under, or lower in place; beneath not so high; as, below the moon; below the knee. Shak.

To treat as a lout; to talk abusively to. [Obs.] Camden.

To put a furbelow on; to ornament.

In or to a higher place; higher than; on or over the upper surface; over; -- opposed to below or beneath. Fowl that may fly above the earth. Gen. i. 20.

See Catharsis, below.

A short grace note, one semitone below the note to which it is prefixed; -- used especially in organ music. Now used as equivalent to the short appoggiatura.

Obs.] Those conceive the celestial bodies have more accurate influences upon these things below. Bacon.

Developing from below towards the apex, or from the circumference towards the center; centripetal; -- said of certain inflorescence.

Below in rank; next to in order. Shak. Codrus after PhDryden.

A hollow cylinder to contain air. It is closed above and open below, and has its open end plunged into water.

f the cultivated forms of Andropogon Halepensis (syn. Sorghum Halepense). See Andropogon, below.

Below; in a lower part. "Aloft, and then alow." Dryden.

resembling, an order of plants differing from the lily family chiefly in having the ovary below the

ourt for a rehearing or review on account of alleged injustice or illegality in the trial below. We say, the cause was appealed from an inferior court.

owing the time it occupies from that; a short auxiliary or grace note one degree above or below the principal note unless it be of the same harmony; -- generally indicated by a note of smaller size, as in the illustration above. It forms no essential part of the harmony.

The apparent arc described, above or below the horizon, by the sun or other celestial body. The diurnal arc is described during the daytime, the nocturnal arc during the night. Electric arc, Voltaic arc. See under Voltaic.

In England, an ecclesiastical dignitary, next in rank below a bishop, whom he assists, and by whom he is appointed, though with independent authority. Blackstone.

tric lamps (white and red) is arranged vertically on a mast, and operated from a keyboard below.

periods of drill and instraction, who are variously called home reserves (as in the table below), second, third, etc., line of defense (the regular army and its reserves ordinarily constituting the first line of defense), territorial forces, or the like. In countries where conscription prevails a soldier is supposed to…

including the true starfishes. The rays vary in number and always have ambulacral grooves below. The body is starshaped or pentagonal.