Earnest-money, n.
- 1. Earnest, pay in advance (to bind a bargain), handsel.
Earnings, n. pl. Income, proceeds, profits. See wages.
Ear-ring, n. Pendant, ear-drop.
Earth, n.
- 1. World, globe, terrestrial ball, terraqueous orb.
- 2. Soil, ground, land, clod, turf, sod.
- 3. World, mankind, inhabitants of the globe.
- 4. This world, nature, natural order, temporal things, transitory state.
Earth-born, a.
- 1. Terrigenous, born on the earth, sprung from the ground.
- 2. Of low birth, of mean extraction, meanly born.
- 3. Earthly, low, mean, base, abject, grovelling, earth-bred, unspiritual, merely temporal.
Earth-bred, a. Low, base, vile, abject, grovelling, earth-born, earth-fed.
Earth-flax, n. Amianth, amianthus (species of A sbestos).
Earthly, a.
- 1. Terrestrial.
- 2. Sensual, sordid, worldly, low, grovelling, vile, base, gross, earthly-minded, earth-born, earth-fed, earth-
bred, carnal, unspiritual.
- 3. Natural, merely natural or physical, temporal, carnal, merely temporal, non-spiritual.
- 4. On earth, in the world, possible, conceivable.
Earthly-minded, a.
- 1. Sensual, sordid.