Aether vs. Nether

See Ether.

personification of the sky or upper air breathed by the Olympians; son of Erebus and Night or of Chaos and Darkness

a medium that was once supposed to fill all space and to support the propagation of electromagnetic waves

Lower; under.

Example: ‘The disappointed child’s nether lip quivered.’;

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

Example: ‘The nether regions.’;

Down; downward.

Low; low down.

To bring or thrust down; bring or make low; lower; abase; humble.

To constrict; straiten; confine; restrict; suppress; lay low; keep under; press in upon; vex; harass; oppress.

To pinch or stunt with cold or hunger; check in growth; shrivel; straiten.

To shrink or huddle, as with cold; be shivery; tremble.

To depreciate; disparage; undervalue.

Oppression; stress; a withering or stunting influence.

(mining) A trouble; a fault or dislocation in a seam of coal.

Situated down or below; lying beneath, or in the lower part; having a lower position; belonging to the region below; lower; under; - opposed to upper.

Example: ‘'Twixt upper, nether, and surrounding fires.’; ‘This darksome nether world her lightDoth dim with horror and deformity.’; ‘All my nether shape thus grew transformed.’;

lower;

Example: ‘gnawed his nether lip’;

of the underworld;

Example: ‘nether regions’;

located below or beneath something else;

Example: ‘nether garments’; ‘the under parts of a machine’;