undermost

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A Protestant scholar, though one of the very undermost, escaped by the timbers arching over him and some of them slanting against the wall.

From Old and New London Volume I by Thornbury, Walter

The weight of this rottenness lay heaviest of all on the labouring poor, who stood undermost in the social scale.

From The Life of Thomas Wanless, Peasant by Wilson, Alexander Johnstone

It is a strange thing that we should always have managed to come out undermost whichever party was on top, and of this I cannot tell the reason.

From The Men of the Moss-Hags Being a history of adventure taken from the papers of William Gordon of Earlstoun in Galloway by Crockett, S. R. (Samuel Rutherford)

Let it stand in the press fourteen or sixteen hours, observing to put the cheeses last made undermost.

From The Cook and Housekeeper's Complete and Universal Dictionary; Including a System of Modern Cookery, in all Its Various Branches, Adapted to the Use of Private Families by Eaton, Mary, fl. 1823-1849

In these panels, the undermost is often introductory to the one above, an illustration of it.

From Our Fathers Have Told Us Part I. The Bible of Amiens by Ruskin, John