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noun. The land surface of the world.

noun. The softer, friable part of land; soil, especially productive soil.

noun. The third planet from the sun, having a sidereal period of revolution about the sun of 365.26 days at a mean distance of approximately 149.6 million kilometers (92.96 million miles), a sidereal rotation period of 23 hours 56.07 minutes, an average radius of 6,378.1 kilometers (3,963 miles), and a mass of approximately 5.9736 × 10²⁴ kilograms (1.3169 × 10²⁵ pounds).

noun. The realm of mortal existence; the temporal world.

noun. The human inhabitants of the world.

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noun. Worldly affairs and pursuits.

noun. Everyday life; reality.

noun. The substance of the human body; clay.

noun. The lair of a burrowing animal.

noun. The ground of an electrical circuit.

noun. Any of several metallic oxides, such as alumina or zirconia, that are difficult to reduce and were formerly regarded as elements.

intransitive verb. To cover or heap (plants) with soil for protection.

intransitive verb. To chase (an animal) into an underground hiding place.

intransitive verb. To burrow or hide in the ground. Used of a hunted animal.

idiom. (on earth) Among all the possibilities.

noun. The act of plowing; a plowing.

noun. A day's plowing.

To hide in or as in the earth.

To put underground; bury; inter.

To cover with earth or mold; choke with earth.

In electricity, to put to earth; place in connection with the earth.

To retire underground; burrow, as a hunted animal.

noun. The terraqueous globe which we inhabit.

noun. One expression only in the Old Testament gives us the word earth in its astronomical meaning,—that in the twenty-sixth chapter of Job:—

noun. The solid matter of the globe, in distinction from water and air; the materials composing the solid parts of the globe; hence, the firm land of the earth's surface; the ground: as, he fell to the earth.

noun. The loose material of the earth's surface; the disintegrated particles of solid matter, in distinction from rock; more particularly, the combinations of particles constituting soil, mold, or dust, as opposed to unmixed sand or clay.

noun. The inhabitants of the globe; the world.

noun. Dirt; hence, something low or mean.

noun. The hole in which a fox or other burrowing animal hides itself.

noun. In chem., a name formerly given to certain inodorous, dry, and uninflammable substances which are metallic oxids, but were formerly regarded as elementary bodies.

noun. In electricity: The union of any point of a telegraph-line, submarine cable, or any system of conductors charged with or conveying electricity with the ground.

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intransitive verb. To burrow.

transitive verb. To hide, or cause to hide, in the earth; to chase into a burrow or den.

transitive verb. To cover with earth or mold; to inter; to bury; -- sometimes with up.

noun. A plowing.

noun. The globe or planet which we inhabit; the world, in distinction from the sun, moon, or stars. Also, this world as the dwelling place of mortals, in distinction from the dwelling place of spirits.

noun. The solid materials which make up the globe, in distinction from the air or water; the dry land.

noun. The softer inorganic matter composing part of the surface of the globe, in distinction from the firm rock; soil of all kinds, including gravel, clay, loam, and the like; sometimes, soil favorable to the growth of plants; the visible surface of the globe; the ground

noun. A part of this globe; a region; a country; land.

noun. Worldly things, as opposed to spiritual things; the pursuits, interests, and allurements of this life.

noun. The people on the globe.

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noun. Any earthy-looking metallic oxide, as alumina, glucina, zirconia, yttria, and thoria.

noun. A similar oxide, having a slight alkaline reaction, as lime, magnesia, strontia, baryta.

noun. A hole in the ground, where an animal hides himself.

noun. The connection of any part an electric conductor with the ground; specif., the connection of a telegraph line with the ground through a fault or otherwise.

noun. etc. See under Adamic, Bitter, etc.

"Very strangely to the ears of the bystanders sounded the words of the Bible, accompanying the handful of earth as it was cast upon Púshkin -- "_earth thou art! _""