underlay (root: underlie)

• POS: Noun, Verb (usu participle)
• HYPHEN: un=der=lay

CIDE DICTIONARY

underlay, v. t. [AS. underlecgan. See Under, and Lay, v. t.].

•  To lay beneath; to put under.  [1913 Webster]
•  To raise or support by something laid under; as, to underlay a cut, plate, or the like, for printing. See Underlay, n., 2.  [1913 Webster]
•  To put a tap on (a shoe).  [1913 Webster]

underlay, v. i. 

 To incline from the vertical; to hade; -- said of a vein, fault, or lode.  [1913 Webster]

underlay, n. 

•  The inclination of a vein, fault, or lode from the vertical; a hade; -- called also underlie.  [1913 Webster]
•  A thickness of paper, pasteboard, or the like, placed under a cut, or stereotype plate, or under type, in the form, 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.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

underlay, v. & n.
--v.tr. (past and past part. -laid) lay something under (a thing) to support or raise it.
--n. a thing laid under another, esp. material laid under a carpet or mattress as protection or support.

underlay, past of UNDERLIE.

ROGET THESAURUS

underlay

Printing

N printing, block printing, type-printing, plate printing, (engraving), the press, composition, print, letterpress, text, context, note, page, column, typography, stereotype, electrotype, aprotype, type, black letter, font, fount, pi, pie, capitals, brevier, bourgeois, pica boldface, capitals, caps, catchword, composing-frame, composing room, composing rule, composing stand, composing stick, italics, justification, linotype, live matter, logotype, lower case, upper case, make-up, matrix, matter, monotype, 4-1/2 point, 5 point, 5-1/2 point, 6 point, 7 point, 8 point, press room, press work, reglet, roman, running head, running title, scale, serif, shank, sheet work, shoulder, signature, slug, underlay, folio, copy, impression, pull, proof, revise, author's proof, galley proof, press proof, press revise, printer, compositor, reader, printer's devil copyholder, printed, in type, typographical, solid in galleys.