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adjective

Earthy adj.

Consisting of, or resembling, earth; terrene; earthlike; as, earthy matter. "How pale she looks, And of an earthy cold!" "All over earthy, like a piece of earth."

Of or pertaining to the earth or to, this world; earthly; terrestrial; carnal. (R.) "Their earthy charge." "The first man is of the earth, earthy; the second man is from heaven. As is the earthy, such are they also that are earthy." "Earthy spirits black and envious are."

Gross; low; unrefined. "Her earthy and abhorred commands."

(Min.) Without luster, or dull and roughish to the touch; as, an earthy fracture.

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Earthy" Quotes from Famous Books

... electric lamps using infusible earthy oxides and brought to high incandescence in vacuo by high potential current of several thousand volts; same character as impingement of X-rays on object ...

— Edison, His Life and Inventions • Frank Lewis Dyer and Thomas Commerford Martin

... side, until we spied a ruined farmhouse where a company had made its billet and mud-coloured knots of soldiers stood round braziers of glowing coals. We had some parley with the company commander, who was of the earth earthy. His words were few and discouraging. As we crawled on, darkness enveloped us, but we dared not light our head-lamps. Suddenly the car slipped on the greasy road, staggered, and lurched over into the morass, hurling us violently upon our sides. We clambered out and contemplated it solemnly as we ...

— Leaves from a Field Note-Book • J. H. Morgan

... it be to cast off this earthy robe, to have done for ever with these earthy thoughts and miserable desires; no longer, like those corpse candles, to be tossed this way and that, by forces beyond our control; or which, if we can theoretically control them, ...

— She • H. Rider Haggard

... and tombs appeared to be his particular forte, and he magnified his office in showing them. Down stairs we went, none of us knowing what we wanted to see, or why. Our guide steps forth, unlocks the gate? of Hades, and we enter a dark vault with a particularly earthy smell. Bang! he shuts the door after him. Clash! he locks it; now we are in for it! and elevating his lantern, he commences a deafening proclamation of some general fact concerning the very unsavory place in which ...

— Sunny Memories of Foreign Lands V2 • Harriet Beecher Stowe

... cradle, and empties it on the grate; a third gives a violent rocking motion to the machine, whilst a fourth dashes on water from the stream itself. The sieve keeps the coarse stones from entering the cradle, the current of water washes off the earthy matter, and the gravel is gradually carried out at the foot of the machine, leaving the gold mixed with a heavy fine black sand above the first cleets. The sand and gold mixed together are then drawn off through auger holes into a pan below, ...

— What I Saw in California • Edwin Bryant

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