See Also: nether(dictionary)
nether(dictionary)

lhiamba (iou) and nether (iou)


lhiamba (iou)



lhiamba noun. Also liamba. M19.
[Bantu (cf. Kikongo diamba).]
In southern central Africa: marijuana, cannabis.

nether (iou)



nether adjective. Now literary or joc.
[Old English neoTera, niTera = Old Frisian nithera, nethera, Old Saxon niTiri (Dutch neder in compounds), Middle Low German ned(d)er, Old High German nidari, -eri, -iri (German nieder), Old Norse neeri, from Germanic base meaning 'down, downwards' (= Sanskrit nitaram, from ni- down + compar. suffix): see -ER3.]
Lower, under (in contrast to higher, over, or upper).
Shakespeare King Lear You justicers, that these our nether crimes So speedily can venge! Milton 'Twixt upper, nether, and surrounding Fires. Dryden The rising rivers float the nether ground. Sir W. Scott At the nether end of the hall, a huge..chimney-piece projected. H. T. Buckle A nether jaw protruding so hideously that his teeth could never meet.
Special collocations & comb.: nether garments spec. trousers. nether man the lower part of a man's body, the legs etc. nether millstone the lower of a pair of millstones (now only in as hard as the nether millstone & vars.); fig. a hard heart. nether person the lower part of the body, the legs etc. nether regions (a) hell, the underworld (of the dead); (b) euphem. (colloq.) the lower part of the body, esp. the genitals and buttocks. netherstock (long obsolete exc. Hist.) a stocking. nether vert: see VERT noun1 & adjective. netherworld hell; the underworld (of the dead or of criminals etc.).
nethermore adverb & adjective (long rare) (a) adverb lower or further down; (b) adjective lower, inferior: ME.
nethermost adjective lowest, undermost, furthest down ME.
netherward adverb & adjective (now rare) (a) adverb downwards; (b) adjective downward: OE.
netherwards adverb (now rare) downwards OE.