Word Meanings - BREASTDEEP - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Deep as from the breast to the feet; as high as the breast. See him breast-deep in earth, and famish him. Shak.

• Earthdrake
  A mythical monster of the early Anglo-Saxon literature; a dragon.
• Earth shine
  See Earth light, under Earth.
• EARTHENHEARTED
  Hard-hearted; sordid; gross. [Poetic] Lowell.
• Breastplow
  Alt. of Breastplough
• Earthshock
  An earthquake.
• EARTHFLAX
  A variety of asbestus. See Amianthus.
• Breastplough
  A kind of plow, driven by the breast of the workman; -- used to cut or pare turf.
• Breastrail
  The upper rail of any parapet of ordinary height, as of a balcony; the railing of a quarter-deck, etc.
• Earthen-hearted
  Hard-hearted; sordid; gross.
• 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.
• EARTHLIGHT
  The sunlight reflected from the earth to the moon, by which we see faintly, when the moon is near the sun (either before or after new moon), that part of the moon's disk unillumined by direct sunlight, or "the old moon in the arms of the new."
• Breastrope
  See Breastband.
• Earthenware
  Vessels and other utensils, ornaments, or the like, made of baked clay. See Crockery, Pottery, Stoneware, and Porcelain.
• Earth-tongue
  A fungus of the genus Geoglossum.
• EARTHLYMINDED
  Having a mind devoted to earthly things; worldly-minded; -- opposed to spiritual-minded. -- Earth"ly-mind`ed*ness, n.
• Breastsummer
  A summer or girder extending across a building flush with, and supporting, the upper part of a front or external wall; a long lintel; a girder; -- used principally above shop windows.
• Earth flax
  A variety of asbestus. See Amianthus.

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