Part 3569

<blockquote>Give him a little <b>earth</b> for charity. <i>Shak.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>4.</b> <def>A part of this globe; a region; a country; land.</def>

<blockquote>Would I had never trod this English <b>earth</b>. <i>Shak.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>5.</b> <def>Worldly things, as opposed to spiritual things; the pursuits, interests, and allurements of this life.</def>

<blockquote>Our weary souls by <b>earth</b> beguiled. <i>Keble.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>6.</b> <def>The people on the globe.</def>

<blockquote>The whole <b>earth</b> was of one language. <i>Gen. xi. 1.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>7.</b> <fld>(Chem.)</fld> <sd>(a)</sd> <def>Any earthy-looking metallic oxide, as alumina, glucina, zirconia, yttria, and thoria.</def> <sd>(b)</sd> <def>A similar oxide, having a slight alkaline reaction, as lime, magnesia, strontia, baryta.</def>

<p><b>8.</b> <def>A hole in the ground, where an animal hides himself; <as>as, the <ex>earth</ex> of a fox</as>.</def>

<i>Macaulay.</i>

<blockquote>They [ferrets] course the poor conies out of their <b>earths</b>. <i>Holland.</i></blockquote>

<note>&hand; <i>Earth</i> is used either adjectively or in combination to form compound words; as, <i>earth</i> apple or <i>earth</i>-apple; <i>earth</i> metal or <i>earth</i>-metal; <i>earth</i> closet or <i>earth</i>-closet.</note>

<cs><mcol><col>Adamic earth</col>, <col>Bitter earth</col>, <col>Bog earth</col>, <col>Chian earth</col></mcol>, <cd>etc. See under <er>Adamic</er>, <er>Bitter</er>, etc.</cd> -- <col>Alkaline earths</col>. <cd>See under <er>Alkaline</er>.</cd> -- <col>Earth apple</col>. <fld>(Bot.)</fld> <sd>(a)</sd> <cd>A potato.</cd> <sd>(b)</sd> <cd>A cucumber.</cd> -- <col>Earth auger</col>, <cd>a form of auger for boring into the ground; -- called also <altname>earth borer</altname>.</cd> -- <col>Earth bath</col>, <cd>a bath taken by immersing the naked body in earth for healing purposes.</cd> -- <col>Earth battery</col> <fld>(Physics)</fld>, <cd>a voltaic battery the elements of which are buried in the earth to be acted on by its moisture.</cd> -- <col>Earth chestnut</col>, <cd>the pignut.</cd> -- <col>Earth closet</col>, <cd>a privy or commode provided with dry earth or a similar substance for covering and deodorizing the f\'91cal discharges.</cd> -- <col>Earth dog</col> <fld>(Zo\'94l.)</fld>, <cd>a dog that will dig in the earth, or enter holes of foxes, etc.</cd> -- <mcol><col>Earth hog</col>, <col>Earth pig</col></mcol> <fld>(Zo\'94l.)</fld>, <cd>the aard-vark.</cd> -- <col>Earth hunger</col>, <cd>an intense desire to own land, or, in the case of nations, to extend their domain.</cd> -- <col>Earth light</col> <fld>(Astron.)</fld>, <cd>the light reflected by the earth, as upon the moon, and corresponding to moonlight; -- called also <altname>earth shine</altname>.</cd> <i>Sir J. Herschel</i>. -- <col>Earth metal</col>. <cd>See 1st <er>Earth</er>, <p><b>7.</b> <fld>(Chem.)</fld></cd> -- <col>Earth oil</col></mcol>, <cd>petroleum.</cd> -- <mcol><col>Earth pillars</col> &or; <col>pyramids</col></mcol> <fld>(Geol.)</fld>, <cd>high pillars or pyramids of earth, sometimes capped with a single stone, found in Switzerland. <i>Lyell</i>.</cd> -- <col>Earth pitch</col> <fld>(Min.)</fld>, <cd>mineral tar, a kind of asphaltum.</cd> -- <col>Earth quadrant</col>, <cd>a fourth of the earth's circumference.</cd> -- <col>Earth table</col> <fld>(Arch.)</fld>, <cd>the lowest course of stones visible in a building; the ground table.</cd> -- <col>On earth</col>, <cd>an intensive expression, oftenest used in questions and exclamations; as, What <i>on earth<i> shall I do? Nothing <i>on earth<i> will satisfy him. <mark>[Colloq.]</mark></cd></cs>

<h1>Earth</h1> <Xpage=466>

<hw>Earth</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <wordforms>[<tt>imp. & p. p.</tt> <er>Earthed</er> <tt>(?)</tt>; <tt>p. pr. & vb. n.</tt> <er>Earthing</er>.]</wordforms>

<p><b>1.</b> <def>To hide, or cause to hide, in the earth; to chase into a burrow or den.</def> "The fox is <i>earthed</i>."

<i>Dryden.</i>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>To cover with earth or mold; to inter; to bury; -- sometimes with <i>up</i>.</def>

<blockquote>The miser <b>earths</b> his treasure, and the thief, Watching the mole, half beggars him ere noon. <i>Young.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>Why this in <b>earthing</b> up a carcass? <i>R. Blair.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Earth</h1> <Xpage=466>

<hw>Earth</hw>, <tt>v. i.</tt> <def>To burrow.</def>

<i>Tickell.</i>

<h1>Earth</h1> <Xpage=466>

<hw>Earth</hw>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[From <er>Ear</er> to plow.]</ety> <def>A plowing.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<blockquote>Such land as ye break up for barley to sow, Two <b>earths</b> at the least, ere ye sow it, bestow. <i>Tusser.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Earthbag</h1> <Xpage=466>

<hw>Earth"bag`</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <fld>(Mil.)</fld> <def>A bag filled with earth, used commonly to raise or repair a parapet.</def>