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First published 2002 (DOST Vol. XI).
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Quotation dates: 1399-1420, 1490-1535, 1596
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(Underneth,) Undirneth(e, Wndirnethe, adv. [ME and e.m.E. vnder nueþe (a1325), vndirneþ, vnder-nethe (both Chaucer), OE undernyðan.] Below; lower down. = Under adv. 1.(1) a1400 Legends of the Saints i 526.
The hound … schot on Symeon … and to the ȝerde hym vndirnethe Ruschit c1520-c1535 Nisbet Mark vii 19.
For it has nocht entrit into his hart, bot into the wambe, and vndirneth [P. bynethe] it gais out, purgeing al metis(2) c1420 Wynt. i 380 (W).
Abufe in hicht it narow wes And vnderneth [R. Wndyr, E. Vnder] in largear wes 1596 Dalr. I 99/13.
Albeit thay be lyke medowis greine abone, and lyke fast ȝeard appeir vndirneth 1596 Dalr. I 135/13.
Gret kairnis of stanes four square vndirneth, and scharpe abone
b. Under the ground.a1400 Legends of the Saints xliii 172.
Hou hapnis here This swet sawoure this tym of ȝere, Of Nouember in the moneth, Quhene flouris haldine ar vndirneth? 1490 Irland Mir. I 40/5.
The haly spreit … garris ws knaw the panis of hell terribile wndirnethe, and the joyis in hevin aboue
