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<p><b>3.</b> <def>In placer mining, earth, gravel, etc., before washing.</def>

<cs><col>Dirt bed</col> <fld>(Geom.)</fld>, <cd>a layer of clayey earth forming a stratum in a geological formation. Dirt beds are common among the coal measures.</cd> -- <col>Dirt eating</col>. <sd>(a)</sd> <cd>The use of certain kinds of clay for food, existing among some tribes of Indians; geophagism. <i>Humboldt</i>.</cd> <sd>(b)</sd> <fld>(Med.)</fld> <cd>Same as <er>Chthonophagia</er>.</cd> -- <col>Dirt pie</col>, <cd>clay or mud molded by children in imitation of pastry. <i>Otway (1684).</i></cd> -- <col>To eat dirt</col>, <cd>to submit in a meanly humble manner to insults; to eat humble pie.</cd></cs>

<h1>Dirt</h1> <Xpage=417>

<hw>Dirt</hw>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <def>To make foul of filthy; to dirty.</def>

<i>Swift.</i>

<h1>Dirtily</h1> <Xpage=417>

<hw>Dirt"i*ly</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>adv.</tt> <def>In a dirty manner; foully; nastily; filthily; meanly; sordidly.</def>

<h1>Dirtiness</h1> <Xpage=417>

<hw>Dirt"i*ness</hw>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>The state of being dirty; filthiness; foulness; nastiness; baseness; sordidness.</def>

<h1>Dirty</h1> <Xpage=417>

<hw>Dirt"y</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <wordforms>[<tt>Compar.</tt> <er>Dirtier</er> <tt>(?)</tt>; <tt>superl.</tt> <er>Dirtiest</er>.]</wordforms>

<p><b>1.</b> <def>Defiled with dirt; foul; nasty; filthy; not clean or pure; serving to defile; <as>as, <ex>dirty</ex> hands; <ex>dirty</ex> water; a <ex>dirty</ex> white.</as></def>

<i>Spenser.</i>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>Sullied; clouded; -- applied to color.</def>

<i>Locke.</i>

<p><b>3.</b> <def>Sordid; base; groveling; <as>as, a <ex>dirty</ex> fellow</as>.</def>

<blockquote>The creature's at his <b>dirty</b> work again. <i>Pope.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>4.</b> <def>Sleety; gusty; stormy; <as>as, <ex>dirty</ex> weather</as>.</def>

<blockquote>Storms of wind, clouds of dust, an angry, <b>dirty</b> sea. <i>M. Arnold.</i></blockquote>

<syn>Syn. -- Nasty; filthy; foul. See <er>Nasty</er>.</syn>

<h1>Dirty</h1> <Xpage=417>

<hw>Dirt"y</hw>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <wordforms>[<tt>imp. & p. p.</tt> <er>Dirtied</er> <tt>(?)</tt>; <tt>p. pr. & vb. n.</tt> <er>Dirtying</er>.]</wordforms>

<p><b>1.</b> <def>To foul; to make filthy; to soil; <as>as, to <ex>dirty</ex> the clothes or hands</as>.</def>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>To tarnish; to sully; to scandalize; -- said of reputation, character, etc.</def>

<h1>Diruption</h1> <Xpage=417>

<hw>Di*rup"tion</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[L. <ets>diruptio</ets>, fr. <ets>dirumpere</ets>. See <er>Disrupt</er>, <tt>a.</tt>]</ety> <def>Disruption.</def>

<h1>Dis-</h1> <Xpage=417>

<hw>Dis-</hw> <tt>(?; 258)</tt><def>.</def>