[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

earth \earth\ ~erth, n. as. eorethe; akin to os. ertha,
   ofries. irthe, d. aarde, ohg. erda, g. erde, icel.
   j"oreth, sw.  dan. jord, goth. aimacrthorna, ohg.
   ero, gr. ?, adv., to earth, and perh. to e. ear to plow.
   1. 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.
      1913 webster

            that law preserves the earth a sphere
            and guides the planets in their course. --s. rogers.
      1913 webster

            in heaven, or earth, or under earth, in hell.
                                                  --milton.
      1913 webster

   2. the solid materials which make up the globe, in
      distinction from the air or water; the dry land.
      1913 webster

            god called the dry land earth.        --gen. i. 10.
      1913 webster

            he is pure air and fire, and the dull elements of
            earth and water never appear in him.  --shak.
      1913 webster

   3. 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; as, loose earth;
      rich earth.
      1913 webster

            give him a little earth for charity.  --shak.
      1913 webster

   4. a part of this globe; a region; a country; land.
      1913 webster

            would i had never trod this english earth. --shak.
      1913 webster

   5. worldly things, as opposed to spiritual things; the
      pursuits, interests, and allurements of this life.
      1913 webster

            our weary souls by earth beguiled.    --keble.
      1913 webster

   6. the people on the globe.
      1913 webster

            the whole earth was of one language.  --gen. xi. 1.
      1913 webster

   7. chem.
      a any earthy-looking metallic oxide, as alumina,
          glucina, zirconia, yttria, and thoria.
      b a similar oxide, having a slight alkaline reaction, as
          lime, magnesia, strontia, baryta.
          1913 webster

   8. a hole in the ground, where an animal hides himself; as,
      the earth of a fox. --macaulay.
      1913 webster

            they ferrets course the poor conies out of their
            earths.                               --holland.
      1913 webster

   9. elec. 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.

   note: when the resistance of the earth connection is low it
         is termed a good earth.
         webster 1913 suppl.

   note: earth is used either adjectively or in combination to
         form compound words; as, earth apple or earth-apple;
         earth metal or earth-metal; earth closet or
         earth-closet.
         1913 webster

   adamic earth, bitter earth, bog earth, chian earth,
      etc. see under adamic, bitter, etc.

   alkaline earths. see under alkaline.

   earth apple. bot.
      a a potato.
      b a cucumber.

   earth auger, a form of auger for boring into the ground; --
      called also earth borer.

   earth bath, a bath taken by immersing the naked body in
      earth for healing purposes.

   earth battery physics, a voltaic battery the elements of
      which are buried in the earth to be acted on by its
      moisture.

   earth chestnut, the pignut.

   earth closet, a privy or commode provided with dry earth or
      a similar substance for covering and deodorizing the
      faecal discharges.

   earth dog zo"ol., a dog that will dig in the earth, or
      enter holes of foxes, etc.

   earth hog, earth pig zo"ol., the aard-vark.

   earth hunger, an intense desire to own land, or, in the
      case of nations, to extend their domain.

   earth light astron., the light reflected by the earth, as
      upon the moon, and corresponding to moonlight; -- called
      also earth shine. --sir j. herschel.

   earth metal. see 1st earth, 7. chem.

   earth oil, petroleum.

   earth pillars or earth pyramids geol., high pillars or
      pyramids of earth, sometimes capped with a single stone,
      found in switzerland. --lyell.

   earth pitch min., mineral tar, a kind of asphaltum.

   earth quadrant, a fourth of the earth's circumference.

   earth table arch., the lowest course of stones visible in
      a building; the ground table.

   on earth, an intensive expression, oftenest used in
      questions and exclamations; as, what on earth shall i do?
      nothing on earth will satisfy him. colloq.
      1913 webster
see also:
adamic earth bitter earth bog earth chian earth adamic bitter 
alkaline earths alkaline earth apple earth auger earth borer 
earth bath earth battery earth chestnut earth closet earth dog 
earth hog earth pig earth hunger earth light earth shine 
earth metal earth earth oil earth pillars earth pyramids 
earth pitch earth quadrant earth table on earth 

[2] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

earth \earth\, v. i.
   to burrow. --tickell.
   1913 webster

[3] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

earth \earth\, n. from ear to plow.
   a plowing. obs.
   1913 webster

         such land as ye break up for barley to sow,
         two earths at the least, ere ye sow it, bestow.
                                                  --tusser.
   1913 webster
see also:
ear 

[4] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

earth \earth\, v. t. imp.  p. p. earthed; p. pr.  vb. n.
   earthing.
   1. to hide, or cause to hide, in the earth; to chase into a
      burrow or den. "the fox is earthed." --dryden.
      1913 webster

   2. to cover with earth or mold; to inter; to bury; --
      sometimes with up.
      1913 webster

            the miser earths his treasure, and the thief,
            watching the mole, half beggars him ere noon.
                                                  --young.
      1913 webster

            why this in earthing up a carcass?    --r. blair.
      1913 webster
see also:
earthed earthing 

[5] : WordNet (r) 2.0

earth
     n 1: the 3rd planet from the sun; the planet on which we live;
          "the earth moves around the sun"; "he sailed around the
          world" syn: world, globe
     2: the loose soft material that makes up a large part of the
        land surface; "they dug into the earth outside the church"
        syn: ground
     3: the solid part of the earth's surface; "the plane turned
        away from the sea and moved back over land"; "the earth
        shook for several minutes"; "he dropped the logs on the
        ground" syn: land, dry land, ground, solid ground,
         terra firma
     4: the abode of mortals as contrasted with heaven or hell;
        "it was hell on earth"
     5: once thought to be one of four elements composing the
        universe empedocles
     6: the concerns of the world as distinguished from heaven and
        the afterlife; "they consider the church to be independent
        of the world" syn: worldly concern, earthly concern,
        world
     7: a connection between an electrical device and the earth
        which is a zero voltage syn: ground
     v 1: hide in the earth like a hunted animal
     2: connect to the earth; "earth the circuit"
see also:
world globe ground land dry land solid ground 
terra firma worldly concern earthly concern 

[6] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

212 moby thesaurus words for "earth":
   earth, gaea, ge, tellus, terra, abri, acres, air, air-raid shelter,
   alluvion, alluvium, arable land, ashes, atom, atomic particles,
   billiard table, biosphere, body, bomb shelter, bombproof, bones,
   bowling green, brute matter, building block, bunker, burrow,
   cadaver, carcass, carpet, carrion, cave, chemical element, clay,
   clod, component, concealment, constituent, corpse, corpus delicti,
   cosmos, couch, cover, covert, coverture, creation, crowbait, crust,
   cyclone cellar, dead body, dead flat, dead level, dead man,
   dead person, decedent, deck, den, dirt, dry bones, dry land,
   dugout, dust, earthbound, earthly, element, elementary particle,
   elementary unit, embalmed corpse, esplanade, fallout shelter, fill,
   fire, flat, flatland, floor, floor covering, flooring,
   fluvioterrestrial, food for worms, form, foxhole, freehold,
   fundamental particle, funk hole, geography, geophilous, geosphere,
   glebe, globe, grassland, gravel, ground, hole, homaloid,
   horizontal, horizontal axis, horizontal fault, horizontal line,
   horizontal parallax, horizontal plane, horizontal projection,
   humus, hyle, hypostasis, lair, land, landholdings, late lamented,
   ledge, level, level line, level plane, lithosphere, loam, lodge,
   macrocosm, marginal land, marl, material, material world,
   materiality, matter, mean sea level, mew, mold, molecule, monad,
   mortal remains, mother earth, mould, mud, mummification, mummy,
   natural world, nature, orb, organic remains, parquet, parterre,
   pave, pavement, paving, physical world, plain, plane, planet,
   platform, plenum, prairie, real estate, real property, region,
   regolith, relics, reliquiae, remains, run, safety zone, sand,
   sea level, sea of grass, shelter, skeleton, sod, soil, sphere,
   steppe, stiff, storm cave, storm cellar, stuff, subaerial deposit,
   subastral, sublunar, subsoil, substance, substratum, surfacing,
   table, tellurian, telluric, tenement of clay, terra, terra firma,
   terrace, terrain, terraqueous, terrene, terrestrial,
   terrestrial globe, territory, the blue planet, the country,
   the dead, the deceased, the defunct, the departed,
   the four elements, the loved one, this pendent world, topsoil,
   trench, tunnel, turf, unit of being, universe, vale, vale of tears,
   water, water level, whole wide world, woodland, world

[7] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

36 moby thesaurus words for "earth":
   gaea, ge, jupiter, mars, mercury, neptune, pluto, saturn, tellus,
   terra, uranus, venus, asteroid, biosphere, geography, geosphere,
   globe, inferior planet, major planet, minor planet, mother earth,
   planet, planetoid, secondary planet, solar system, superior planet,
   terra, terrestrial globe, terrestrial planet, the blue planet,
   this pendent world, vale, vale of tears, wanderer,
   whole wide world, world

[8] : Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary

earth
   1. in the sense of soil or ground, the translation of the word
   _adamah'_. in gen. 9:20 "husbandman" is literally "man of the
   ground or earth." altars were to be built of earth ex. 20:24.
   naaman asked for two mules' burden of earth 2 kings 5:17,
   under the superstitious notion that jehovah, like the gods of
   the heathen, could be acceptably worshipped only on his own
   soil.
   
     2. as the rendering of _'erets_, it means the whole world
   gen. 1:2; the land as opposed to the sea 1:10. _erets_ also
   denotes a country 21:32; a plot of ground 23:15; the ground
   on which a man stands 33:3; the inhabitants of the earth 6:1;
   11:1; all the world except israel 2 chr. 13:9. in the new
   testament "the earth" denotes the land of judea matt. 23:35;
   also things carnal in contrast with things heavenly john 3:31;
   col. 3:1, 2.
   

[9] : U.S. Gazetteer (1990)

earth, tx city, fips 21928
  location: 34.23349 n, 102.40843 w
  population 1990: 1228 469 housing units
  area: 3.1 sq km land, 0.0 sq km water
  zip codes: 79031

[10] : U.S. Gazetteer Places (2000)

earth, tx -- u.s. city in texas
   population 2000:    1109
   housing units 2000: 458
   land area 2000:     1.197400 sq. miles 3.101251 sq. km
   water area 2000:    0.000000 sq. miles 0.000000 sq. km
   total area 2000:    1.197400 sq. miles 3.101251 sq. km
   fips code:            21928
   located within:       texas tx, fips 48
   location:             34.234566 n, 102.405183 w
   zip codes 1990:     79031
   note: some zip codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
   headwords:
    earth, tx
    earth

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