On the surface the struggle was renewed, but Mr. P. always kept undermost.

The perches must be level, and not one above the other, or unpleasant consequences may ensue to the undermost row.

Trees had been thrown down, torn up by the roots, hurled against one another; rocks broken and flung to great distances, some even thrown up in the air, and so reversed in falling that, while again half buried in the soil, they exposed what had been their undermost surface.

And if my readers want a probable cause why the sandstones lie undermost, and the red marl uppermostcan they not find one for themselves?

You that are borne Pagans both by father and mother, the true sonnes of Infidelity, sit downe by me your officiall, or to come nearer to the efficacy of the word, your undermost Iaylor or staller; the word is Lordly and significant.

He did so, and found five, one over the other, and the little rich vest undermost.

Adj. bottom, undermost, nethermost; fundamental; founded on, based on, grounded on, built on. 212.

When they break loose they are like a public ruin, in which the highest parts lie undermost, and make the noblest fabrics heaps of rubbish.

Hooking his horny fingers about my throat, he clung to me like any wildcat; but stumbling, shortly, over two who were rolling on the floor, we went down both with a crack, and with such violence that he, being undermost, was stunned by the fall.

Peg it out on the ground with the hair side undermost.

It was a choice of two evils, and quick as lightning Felix frustrated him, the constable fell undermost and Felix got his weapon.

It was an awkward fall, for the leg which was undermost came down at an angle, and his foot, striking a slippery stone, turned under him.

Undermost a layer of clear compressed cells, the stratum lucidum.

[aft, adv.,] after, aftmost or aftermost; [forth, adv., formerly furth,[180]] further, furthest or furthermost; hither, hithermost; nether, nethermost; under, undermost. III.

This is the ghost that leads you astray in forest and highway: Undermost, uppermost, hither and yon the ground is a-rollin', Bridges bendin', and mountains movin', and everything double.

Poor Mr. Wing had fared the worst of the company; the clumsy animal he rode seeming to be of opinion when he got into a difficulty that he had nothing to do but to lie down and resign himself to his fate; while his rider, not being particularly light and agile, was generally undermost, and half imbedded in the mire before he had quite made up his mind as to his course of action.

The whites have done all the carving for them, and have always placed them undermost.