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A cave or room under ground. [R.] J. Bryant.

Subterranean. [Obs.]

or lying under the surface of the earth; situated within the earth, or under ground; as, subterranean springs; a subterraneous passage. -- Sub`ter*ra"ne*ous*ly, adv.

The supposed faculty of perceiving subterraneous springs and currents by sensation; -- so called from one Bleton, of France.

A pipe or duct used to convey hot air or steam. Subterranean caliducts have been introduced. Evelyn.

A cave, grotto, or subterraneous place of large extent used for the burial of the dead; -- commonly in the plural.

A hollow place in the earth, either natural or artificial; a subterraneous cavity; a cavern; a den.

putation; as, a man's character for truth and veracity; to give one a bad character. This subterraneous passage is much mended since Seneca gave so bad a character of it. Addison.

An eating house. "A subterranean cookshop." Macaulay.

der ground; especially, a vault under a church, whether used for burial purposes or for a subterranean chapel or oratory. Priesthood works out its task age after age, . . . treasuring in convents and crypts the few fossils of antique learning. Motley. My knees are bowed in crypt and shrine. Tennyson.…

, to tear from a foundation; to uproot. A piece of ground disrooted from its situation by subterraneous inundations. Goldsmith.

A passage driven or cut between shaft and shaft; a driftway; a small subterranean gallery; an adit or tunnel.

A shaking, trembling, or concussion of the earth, due to subterranean causes, often accompanied by a rumbling noise. The wave of shock sometimes traverses half a hemisphere, destroying cities and many thousand lives; -- called also earthdin, earthquave, and earthshock. Earthquake alarm, a bell signal constructed to ope…

The subterraneous portion of a building, as in amphitheaters, for the service of the games; also, subterranean galleries, as the catacombs.

A subterranean repository for wheat.

To form subterraneous tunnel or hole; to form a burrow or lodge in the earth; as, the mining cony.

-- Mole cricket (Zoöl.), an orthopterous insect of the genus Gryllotalpa, which excavates subterranean galleries, and throws up mounds of earth resembling those of the mole. It is said to do damage by injuring the roots of plants. The common European species (Gryllotalpa vulgaris), and the American (G. borealis), are t…

Subterranean; -- applied to sources supplying wells.

Of or pertaining to Pluto; Plutonian; hence, pertaining to the interior of the earth; subterranean.

A subterraneous passage communicating between the parade and the main ditch, or between the ditches and the interior of the outworks. Mahan.