Underlay

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

·noun To put a tap on (a shoe).

II. Underlay ·vt To lay beneath; to put under.

III. Underlay ·noun The inclination of a vein, fault, or lode from the vertical; a hade;

— called also underlie.

IV. Underlay ·vi To incline from the vertical; to Hade;

— said of a vein, fault, or lode.

V. Underlay ·vt To raise or support by something laid under; as, to underlay a cut, plate, or the like, for printing. ·see Underlay, ·noun, 2.

VI. Underlay ·noun 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.