Below

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

·adv In some part or page following.

II. Below ·prep Unworthy of; unbefitting; beneath.

III. Below ·adv In hell, or the regions of the dead.

IV. Below ·adv On the earth, as opposed to the heavens.

V. Below ·adv In court or tribunal of inferior jurisdiction; as, at the trial below.

VI. Below ·adv In a lower place, with respect to any object; in a lower room; beneath.

VII. Below ·prep Under, or lower in place; beneath not so high; as, below the moon; below the knee.

VIII. Below ·prep Inferior to in rank, excellence, dignity, value, amount, price, ·etc.; lower in quality.

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