(1):

(n.) A thickness of paper, pasteboard, or the like, placed under a cut, or stereotype plate, or under type, in the from, to bring it, or any part of it, to the proper height; also, something placed back of a part of the tympan, so as to secure the right impression.

(2):

(v. t.) To raise or support by something laid under; as, to underlay a cut, plate, or the like, for printing. See Underlay, n., 2.

(3):

(v. t.) To lay beneath; to put under.

(4):

(n.) The inclination of a vein, fault, or lode from the vertical; a hade; - called also underlie.

(5):

(n.) To put a tap on (a shoe).

(6):

(v. i.) To incline from the vertical; to hade; - said of a vein, fault, or lode.