Word Meanings - INTERVALE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A tract of low ground between hills, or along the banks of a stream, usually alluvial land, enriched by the overflowings of the river, or by fertilizing deposits of earth from the adjacent hills. Cf. Bottom, n., 7.

• Earthwork
  Any construction, whether a temporary breastwork or permanent fortification, for attack or defense, the material of which is chiefly earth.
• Groundage
  A local tax paid by a ship for the ground or space it occupies while in port.
• Riverside
  The side or bank of a river.
• Tractate
  A treatise; a tract; an essay.
• EARTHENHEARTED
  Hard-hearted; sordid; gross. [Poetic] Lowell.
• Bottomry
  A contract in the nature of a mortgage, by which the owner of a ship, or the master as his agent, hypothecates and binds the ship (and sometimes the accruing freight) as security for the repayment of money advanced or lent for the use of the ship,
• Earthiness
  The quality or state of being earthy, or of containing earth; hence, grossness.
• 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.
• Groundedly
  In a grounded or firmly established manner.
• Tractation
  Treatment or handling of a subject; discussion.
• EARTHFLAX
  A variety of asbestus. See Amianthus.
• Earthling
  An inhabitant of the earth; a mortal.
• Grounden
  p. p. of Grind.
• Tractator
  One who writes tracts; specif., a Tractarian.
• 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."

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