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Word Meanings - EARTHBANK - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A bank or mound of earth.

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  • EARTHLY-MINDED
    Having a mind devoted to earthly things; worldly-minded; -- opposed to spiritual-minded. -- Earth"ly-mind`ed*ness, n.
  • EARTH FLAX
    A variety of asbestus. See Amianthus.
  • EARTHDIN
    An earthquake.
  • EARTHSTAR
    A curious fungus of the genus Geaster, in which the outer coating splits into the shape of a star, and the inner one forms a ball containing the dustlike spores.
  • EARTHBRED
    Low; grovelling; vulgar.
  • EARTHBANK
    A bank or mound of earth.
  • EARTHQUAVE
    An earthquake.
  • EARTHDRAKE
    A mythical monster of the early Anglo-Saxon literature; a dragon. W. Spalding.
  • EARTHNUT
    A name given to various roots, tubers, or pods grown under or on the ground; as to: The esculent tubers of the umbelliferous plants Bunium flexuosum and Carum Bulbocastanum. The peanut. See Peanut.
  • EARTHEN
    Made of earth; made of burnt or baked clay, or other like substances; as, an earthen vessel or pipe.
  • EARTH SHINE
    See EARTH
  • EARTHMAD
    The earthworm. The earthmads and all the sorts of worms . . . are without eyes. Holland.
  • EARTHEN-HEARTED
    Hard-hearted; sordid; gross. Lowell.
  • EARTHBOARD
    The part of a plow, or other implement, that turns over the earth; the moldboard.
  • EARTHWORK
    Any construction, whether a temporary breastwork or permanent fortification, for attack or defense, the material of which is chiefly earth. The operation connected with excavations and embankments of earth in preparing foundations of buildings,
  • EARTHLINESS
    The quality or state of being earthly; worldliness; grossness; perishableness.
  • EARTHINESS
    The quality or state of being earthy, or of containing earth; hence, grossness.
  • EARTH-TONGUE
    A fungus of the genus Geoglossum.
  • EARTHLING
    An inhabitant of the earth; a mortal. Earthings oft her deemed a deity. Drummond.
  • EARTHFORK
    A pronged fork for turning up the earth.
  • UNEARTHLY
    Not terrestrial; supernatural; preternatural; hence, weird; appalling; terrific; as, an unearthly sight or sound. -- Un*earth"li*ness, n.
  • MIDDLE-EARTH
    The world, considered as lying between heaven and hell. Shak.
  • YEARTH
    The earth. "Is my son dead or hurt or on the yerthe felled" Ld. Berners.
  • EARTH
    OHG. erda, G. erde, Icel. jör, Sw. & Dan. jord, Goth. airpa, OHG. 1. The globe or planet which we inhabit; the world, in distinction from the sun, moon, or stars. Also, this world as the dwelling place of mortals, in distinction from the dwelling

 

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