below (iou) and Overweight - Horse Racing (gambling)

below (iou)

below adverb & preposition. LME.
[from be BY preposition + LOW adjective.]
A. adverb.
gen. At or to a lower position relative to another; lower down. LME.
Goldsmith The child..leaped from her arms into the flood below. Tennyson From below Sweet gales, as from deep gardens, blow. K. Amis The slamming of the car doors below made them both jump.
b. Lower down a slope or the course of a river, downstream. M17.
c. Lower on a sheet or page; at the foot of the page; later in a book or article. L17.
a. Under heaven; on earth (often preceded by here). arch. or poet. L16.
Keats Finer spirits cannot breathe below In human climes.
b. Under the earth; rhet. in hell. E17.
Shakespeare Tempest Night kept chain'd below. Southey The fiends below were ringing his knell.
On or to a lower floor; downstairs; esp. (Nautical) below deck. L16.
Shakespeare Merry Wives of Windsor There's one Master Brook below would fain speak with you. R. H. Dana It being the turn of our watch to go below.
fig. In or to a lower rank, position, station, etc. E17.
D. M. Walker The result of an appeal may be to affirm, modify, or reverse the decision of the court below.
Lower than the zero of a temperature scale. L18.
P. Theroux This is the worst winter I've ever seen. Ten below in Chicago.
b. preposition.
gen. Lower in position than, at less elevation than. L16.
Sir W. Scott He never counted him a man Would strike below the knee. T. S. Eliot At dawn we came down to a temperate valley, Wet, below the snowline.
b. Lower down a slope than; downstream from; further south than. E17.
Shakespeare Measure for Measure Meet me at the consecrated fount, A league below the city. Publishers Weekly In the desperately poor South, the country below Naples.
c. Lower down a page than; later in a work than. M18.
Directly beneath; covered by, underneath; deeper than. E17.
Tennyson Some dolorous message knit below The wild pulsation of her wings. Ld Kelvin The necessity for study below the surface seems to have been earliest recognised in anatomy. A. S. J. Tessimond The still green light below tall trees.
Lower in rank, position, etc., than. E17.
Steele He..gives his orders..to the Servants below him. J. Heller In marrying your father, I married very far below my station.
b. Lower in some quality than; inferior to. E18.
Ld Macaulay How far my performance is below excellence.
c. Lower in amount, value, weight, temperature, etc., than. E18.
Unworthy of, unbefitting to, lowering to (more freq. expressed by beneath). M17.
Steele It was below a Gentlewoman to wrangle. R. A. Proctor Too far below contempt to be worth castigating.
Phrases (of adverb & preposition): below deck(s): see DECK noun1 2. below ground: see GROUND noun. below one's breath: see BREATH noun. below par: see PAR noun1. below stairs: see STAIR 1. below the belt: see BELT noun. below the gangway: see GANGWAY 3b. below there!: warning to beware of a falling object. below the salt: see SALT noun1. from below from a lower place. watch below: see WATCH noun.

Overweight - Horse Racing (gambling)

The pounds that a horse carries in excess of its officially assigned weight because the jockey is too heavy.

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