Word Meanings - EARTHQUAKE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A shaking, trembling, or concussion of the earth, due to subterranean causes, often accompanied by a rumbling noise. The wave of shock sometimes traverses half a hemisphere, destroying cities and many thousand lives; -- called also earthdin, earthquave, and earthshock.

• 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.
• Rumbling
  a. & n. from Rumble, v. i.
• Shocked
  of Shock
• CALLISTHENICCALLISTHENICS
  See Calisthenic, Calisthenics.
• Calligrapher
  One skilled in calligraphy; a good penman.
• Callose
  Furnished with protuberant or hardened spots.
• Callosities
  of Callosity
• Earthed
  of Earth
• Earthling
  An inhabitant of the earth; a mortal.
• Earthy
  Consisting of, or resembling, earth; terrene; earthlike; as, earthy matter.
• Rumblingly
  In a rumbling manner.
• Shocking
  of Shock
• EARTHENHEARTED
  Hard-hearted; sordid; gross. [Poetic] Lowell.
• Calligraphic
  Alt. of Calligraphical
• Callosity
  A hard or thickened spot or protuberance; a hardening and thickening of the skin or bark of a part, eps. as a result of continued pressure or friction.
• Earthing
  of Earth
• Earthly
  Pertaining to the earth; belonging to this world, or to man's existence on the earth; not heavenly or spiritual; carnal; worldly; as, earthly joys; earthly flowers; earthly praise.
• Hemisphere
  A half sphere; one half of a sphere or globe, when divided by a plane passing through its center.

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