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A dull sound without resonance, like that produced by striking with, or striking against, some comparatively soft substance; also, the stroke or blow producing such sound; as, the thrud of a cannon ball striking the 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.
• Productivity
  The quality or state of being productive; productiveness.
• EARTHENHEARTED
  Hard-hearted; sordid; gross. [Poetic] Lowell.
• Earthling
  An inhabitant of the earth; a mortal.
• Productress
  A female producer.
• Striker
  One who, or that which, strikes; specifically, a blacksmith's helper who wields the sledge.
• EARTHFLAX
  A variety of asbestus. See Amianthus.
• Earthing
  of Earth
• Produced
  of Produce
• Productus
  An extinct genus of brachiopods, very characteristic of the Carboniferous rocks.
• Strikle
  See Strickle.
• 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."
• Againstand
  To withstand.

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