noun. A rough upland or mountainous region of the moon or other solar system body often having a high albedo relative to other surface features.

noun. Earth, or the earth: sometimes personified, Terra: used especially in various phrases (Latin and Italian).

noun. The earth; earth.

noun. a white amorphous earthy substance consisting of burnt gypsum, aluminium silicate (kaolin), or some similar ingredient, as magnesia. It is sometimes used to adulterate certain foods, spices, candies, paints, etc.

noun. Baked clay; a kind of hard pottery used for statues, architectural decorations, figures, vases, and the like.

noun. formerly, one appointed to write a satirical Latin poem at the public acts in the University of Oxford; -- not unlike the prevaricator at Cambridge, England.

noun. firm or solid earth, as opposed to water.

noun. Same as Gambier. It was formerly supposed to be a kind of earth from Japan.

noun. Lemnian earth. See under Lemnian.

noun. barite, or heavy spar.

noun. See Sienna.

noun. A rough upland or mountainous region of the moon with a relatively high albedo.

"Sed vide ne forte terra, quae eft infra abyflum, appenfafit fuper nihilum; ea autem, quae eft fupra abyflum, terra* '"

terra a terra  terra alba  terra cariosa  terra catechu  terra di siena  

Terra  Terran  terra firma  terrace  terracotta  

Berra  Canberra  Cara  Chimera  Clara  

Vate  aberat  absurdum  actio  aethera  

earth