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nether

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1. nether - Noun

2. nether - Adjective

3. nether - Verb

4. nether - Adverb

5. nether - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

Situated down or below; lying beneath, or in the lower part; having a lower position; belonging to the region below; lower; under; -- opposed to upper.

Source: Webster's dictionary

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There was something awesome in the thought of the solitary mortal standing by the open window and summoning in from the gloom outside the spirits of the nether world. Arthur Conan Doyle

Ever, as before, does Madness remain a mysterious-terrific, altogether infernal boiling-up of the Nether Chaotic Deep, through this fair-painted Vision of Creation, which swims thereon, which we name the Real. Thomas Carlyle

The harvest of this world is to the resolute, and he that is infirm of purpose is ground betwixt the upper and the nether millstone. Eric Rücker Eddison

The Piper wants meikle, that wants the nether chafts. Scottish Proverb

She is nether fish nor fowl. Spanish Proverb

Nanni cherished his old age. [...] He captured Simurrum, but [...] he never saw mighty kingship. Thus Nanni was carried off to the nether world. Sumerian Proverb

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