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Webster 1913 Edition
Underworld
Un′der-worldˊ
,Noun.
1.
The lower of inferior world; the world which is under the heavens; the earth.
That overspreads (with such a reverence)
This
This
underworld
. Daniel.
2.
The mythological place of departed souls; Hades.
3.
The portion of the world which is below the horizon; the opposite side of the world; the antipodes.
[R.]
Fresh as the first beam glittering on a sail,
That brings our friends up from the
That brings our friends up from the
underworld
. Tennyson.
4.
The inferior part of mankind.
[R.]
Atterbury.