Word Meanings - EARTHING - Book Publishers vocabulary database

of Earth

• Earthfork
  A pronged fork for turning up the earth.
• Earthwards
  Toward the earth; -- opposed to heavenward or skyward.
• Earthiness
  The quality or state of being earthy, or of containing earth; hence, grossness.
• Earthwork
  Any construction, whether a temporary breastwork or permanent fortification, for attack or defense, the material of which is chiefly earth.
• Earthliness
  The quality or state of being earthly; worldliness; grossness; perishableness.
• Earthworm
  Any worm of the genus Lumbricus and allied genera, found in damp soil. One of the largest and most abundant species in Europe and America is L. terrestris; many others are known; -- called also angleworm and dewworm.
• Earthling
  An inhabitant of the earth; a mortal.
• EARTHENHEARTED
  Hard-hearted; sordid; gross. [Poetic] Lowell.
• Earthly-minded
  Having a mind devoted to earthly things; worldly-minded; -- opposed to spiritual-minded.
• 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."
• Earthboard
  The part of a plow, or other implement, that turns over the earth; the moldboard.

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