neth·er /ˈnɛðɚ/
 (a.)下麵的,下方的,下界的
 Neth·er a.  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.
    'Twixt upper, nether, and surrounding fires.   --Milton.
 This darksome nether world her light
 Doth dim with horror and deformity.   --Spenser.
    All my nether shape thus grew transformed.   --Milton.
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 nether
      adj 1: lower; "gnawed his nether lip"
      2: of the underworld; "nether regions" [syn: chthonian, chthonic,
          lower]
      3: located below or beneath something else; "nether garments";
         "the under parts of a machine" [syn: under]