Crossword-Solution: UNDERLAY
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Underlay | v. t. | To lay beneath; to put under. |
| Underlay | v. t. | To raise or support by something laid under; as, to underlay a cut, plate, or the like, for printing. See Underlay, n., 2. |
| Underlay | n. | To put a tap on (a shoe). |
| Underlay | v. i. | To incline from the vertical; to hade; -- said of a vein, fault, or lode. |
| Underlay | n. | The inclination of a vein, fault, or lode from the vertical; a hade; -- called also underlie. |
| Underlay | n. | A thickness of paper, pasteboard, or the like, placed under a cut, or stereotype plate, or under type, in the from, 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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| Word | Anagrams | |
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| UNDERLAY | anagram | LAYUNDER |
We have 3 clues for the answer “UNDERLAY”
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| Line the bottom of. | 1 answer |
| They underlaid the shingles with roofing paper | 1 answer |
| felt or rubber laid beneath a carpet to increase insulation and resilience | 1 answer |
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
CEMAEZ
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eruption
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Sentences with UNDERLAY (5)
Rowland saw that an intense agitation, hitherto successfully repressed, underlay her calmness, and he could easily believe that her battle had been fierce.
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.
Suddenly, amid this tumult of oaths and drunken cries, men became conscious of a quiet monotone which underlay all other sounds and obtruded itself at every pause in the uproar.
The younger artist was said to have formed himself at my friend’s feet, and I wondered if a tinge of jealousy underlay the latter’s mysterious abdication.
Their vague idealism, the suspicion of a philosophical idea which underlay the titles they gave their pictures, accorded very well with the functions of art as from his diligent perusal of Ruskin he understood it; but here was something quite different: here was no moral appeal; and the contemplation of these works could help no one to lead a purer and a higher life.
Quotes with UNDERLAY (3)
Actually — and this was where I began to feel seriously uncomfortable — some such divine claim underlay not just 'the occupation' but the whole idea of a separate state for Jews in Palestine. Take away the divine warrant for the Holy Land and where were you, and what were you? Just another land-thief like the Turks or the British, except that in this case you wanted the land without the people. And the original Zionist slogan — 'a land without a people for a people without a …
Few things are more dangerous to an egalitarian ideal than the concept of a chosen people, and the divide drawn by the early iteration of God's Church helped to exacerbate the many ideological faults that already underlay the landscape. When they chips were down, Tear's people were ready to turn on each other, and the fall of the Town was very quick, so quick that this historian wonders whether all such communities are not destined to fail. Our species is capable of altruism,…
He could see the tall, peeling yellow building at the periphery of his range of vision. But something about it struck him as strange. A shimmer, an unsteadiness, as if the building faded forward into stability and then retreated into insubstantial uncertainty. An oscillation, each phase lasting a few seconds and then blurring off into its opposite, a fairly regular variability as if an organic pulsation underlay the structure. As if, he thought, it's alive.
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Appears in: NYT.
Used 1 time in crossword archives (1952).