Word Meanings - RIDEAU - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A small mound of earth; ground slightly elevated; a small ridge.

• Ridgelet
  A little ridge.
• EARTHENHEARTED
  Hard-hearted; sordid; gross. [Poetic] Lowell.
• Earthfork
  A pronged fork for turning up the earth.
• Earthwards
  Toward the earth; -- opposed to heavenward or skyward.
• Grounden
  p. p. of Grind.
• Groundless
  Without ground or foundation; wanting cause or reason for support; not authorized; false; as, groundless fear; a groundless report or assertion.
• Ridgeling
  A half-castrated male animal.
• EARTHFLAX
  A variety of asbestus. See Amianthus.
• 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.
• Groundling
  A fish that keeps at the bottom of the water, as the loach.
• Ridgepiece
  Alt. of Ridgeplate
• 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."
• 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.
• Groundly
  Solidly; deeply; thoroughly.
• Ridgeplate
  See Ridgepole.
• EARTHLYMINDED
  Having a mind devoted to earthly things; worldly-minded; -- opposed to spiritual-minded. -- Earth"ly-mind`ed*ness, n.

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