Word Meanings - EARTHLING - Book Publishers vocabulary database

An inhabitant of the earth; a mortal. Earthings oft her deemed a deity. Drummond.

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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.
• DRUMMOND LIGHT
  A very intense light, produced by turning two streams of gas, one oxygen and the other hydrogen, or coal gas, in a state of ignition, upon a ball of lime; or a stream of oxygen gas through a flame of alcohol upon a ball or disk of lime; -- called
• EARTHDIN
  An earthquake.
• DEEM
  OS. ad, D. doemen, OHG. tuommen, Icel. dæma, Sw. dömma, Dan. dömme, 1. To decide; to judge; to sentence; to condemn. Claudius . . . Was demed for to hang upon a tree. Chaucer. 2. To account; to esteem; to think; to judge; to hold in opinion;
• 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.
• INHABITANT
  One who has a legal settlement in a town, city, or parish; a permanent resident. (more info) 1. One who dwells or resides permanently in a place, as distinguished from a transient lodger or visitor; as, an inhabitant of a house, a town, a city,
• EARTH SHINE
  See EARTH
• EARTHMAD
  The earthworm. The earthmads and all the sorts of worms . . . are without eyes. Holland.
• DEEMSTER
  A judge in the Isle of Man who decides controversies without process. Cowell.
• 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.
• UNEARTHLY
  Not terrestrial; supernatural; preternatural; hence, weird; appalling; terrific; as, an unearthly sight or sound. -- Un*earth"li*ness, n.
• UNREDEEMED
  Not redeemed.
• REDEEM
  Hence, to rescue and deliver from the bondage of sin and the penalties of God's violated law. Christ hath redeemed us from the curse of the law, being made a curse for us. Gal. iii. 13. 5. To make good by performing fully; to fulfill; as, to redeem
• IMMORTALIST
  One who holds the doctrine of the immortality of the soul. Jer. Taylor.
• IMMORTAL
  1. Not mortal; exempt from liability to die; undying; imperishable; lasting forever; having unlimited, or eternal, existance. Unto the King eternal, immortal, invisible. 1 Tim. i. 17. For my soul, what can it do to that, Being a thing immortal
• MIDDLE-EARTH
  The world, considered as lying between heaven and hell. Shak.
• NONINHABITANT
  One who is not an inhabitant; a stranger; a foreigner; a nonresident.