Earth battery(Physics), a voltaic battery the elements of which are buried in the earth to be acted on by its moisture.Earth chestnut, the pignut.Earth closet, a privy or commode provided with dry earth or a similar substance for covering and deodorizing the fæcal discharges.Earth dog(Zoöl.), a dog that will dig in the earth, or enter holes of foxes, etc.Earth hog, Earth pig(Zoöl.), the aard- vark.Earth hunger, an intense desire to own land, or, in the case of nations, to extend their domain.Earth light(Astron.), the light reflected by the earth, as upon the moon, and corresponding to moonlight; — called also earth shine. Sir J. Herschel.Earth metal. See 1st Earth, 7. (Chem.)Earth oil, petroleum. Earth pillarsor pyramids(Geol.), high pillars or pyramids of earth, sometimes capped with a single stone, found in Switzerland. Lyell.Earth pitch(Min.), mineral tar, a kind of asphaltum.Earth quadrant, a fourth of the earth's circumference.Earth table(Arch.), the lowest course of stones visible in a building; the ground table.On earth, an intensive expression, oftenest used in questions and exclamations; as, What on earth shall I do? Nothing on earth will satisfy him. [Colloq.]

Earth
(Earth) v. t. [imp. & p. p. Earthed ; p. pr. & vb. n. Earthing.]

1. To hide, or cause to hide, in the earth; to chase into a burrow or den. "The fox is earthed." Dryden.

2. To cover with earth or mold; to inter; to bury; — sometimes with up.

The miser earths his treasure, and the thief,
Watching the mole, half beggars him ere noon.
Young.

Why this in earthing up a carcass?
R. Blair.

Earth
(Earth), v. i. To burrow. Tickell.

Earth
(Earth), n. [From Ear to plow.] A plowing. [Obs.]

Such land as ye break up for barley to sow,
Two earths at the least, ere ye sow it, bestow.
Tusser.

Earthbag
(Earth"bag`) n. (Mil.) A bag filled with earth, used commonly to raise or repair a parapet.

Earthbank
(Earth"bank`) n. A bank or mound of earth.

Earthboard
(Earth"board`) n. (Agric.) The part of a plow, or other implement, that turns over the earth; the moldboard.

Earthborn
(Earth"born`) a.

1. Born of the earth; terrigenous; springing originally from the earth; human.

Some earthborn giant.
Milton.

2. Relating to, or occasioned by, earthly objects.

All earthborn cares are wrong.
Goldsmith.

Earthbred
(Earth"bred`) a. Low; grovelling; vulgar.

Earthdin
(Earth"din`) n. An earthquake. [Obs.]

Earthdrake
(Earth"drake`) n. A mythical monster of the early Anglo-Saxon literature; a dragon. W. Spalding.

Earthen
(Earth"en) a. Made of earth; made of burnt or baked clay, or other like substances; as, an earthen vessel or pipe.

Earthen-hearted
(Earth"en-heart`ed) a. Hard- hearted; sordid; gross. [Poetic] Lowell.

immersing the naked body in earth for healing purposes.


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