nether

Lower; under.

The disappointed child’s nether lip quivered.

And yet another marvel, the nether side of the canopy over the high seats was encrusted with lapis lazuli, and in that feigned dome of heaven burned the twelve signs of the zodiac, every star a diamond that shone with its own light.

Lying beneath, or conceived as lying beneath, the Earth’s surface.

the nether regions

When one thinks of the tremendous forces of the upper and the nether world which play for the mastery of the soul of a woman during the few years in which she passes from plastic girlhood to the ripe maturity of womanhood,

Down; downward.

Low; low down.

Alternative letter-case form of the Nether.