Word Meanings - EARTHBANK - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A bank or mound of earth.

Related words: (words related to EARTHBANK)

• EARTHLY-MINDED
  Having a mind devoted to earthly things; worldly-minded; -- opposed to spiritual-minded. -- Earth"ly-mind`ed*ness, n.
• EARTH FLAX
  A variety of asbestus. See Amianthus.
• EARTHDIN
  An earthquake.
• EARTHSTAR
  A curious fungus of the genus Geaster, in which the outer coating splits into the shape of a star, and the inner one forms a ball containing the dustlike spores.
• EARTHBRED
  Low; grovelling; vulgar.
• EARTHBANK
  A bank or mound of earth.
• EARTHQUAVE
  An earthquake.
• EARTHDRAKE
  A mythical monster of the early Anglo-Saxon literature; a dragon. W. Spalding.
• EARTHNUT
  A name given to various roots, tubers, or pods grown under or on the ground; as to: The esculent tubers of the umbelliferous plants Bunium flexuosum and Carum Bulbocastanum. The peanut. See Peanut.
• EARTHEN
  Made of earth; made of burnt or baked clay, or other like substances; as, an earthen vessel or pipe.
• EARTH SHINE
  See EARTH
• EARTHMAD
  The earthworm. The earthmads and all the sorts of worms . . . are without eyes. Holland.
• EARTHEN-HEARTED
  Hard-hearted; sordid; gross. Lowell.
• EARTHBOARD
  The part of a plow, or other implement, that turns over the earth; the moldboard.
• EARTHWORK
  Any construction, whether a temporary breastwork or permanent fortification, for attack or defense, the material of which is chiefly earth. The operation connected with excavations and embankments of earth in preparing foundations of buildings,
• EARTHLINESS
  The quality or state of being earthly; worldliness; grossness; perishableness.
• EARTHINESS
  The quality or state of being earthy, or of containing earth; hence, grossness.
• EARTH-TONGUE
  A fungus of the genus Geoglossum.
• EARTHLING
  An inhabitant of the earth; a mortal. Earthings oft her deemed a deity. Drummond.
• EARTHFORK
  A pronged fork for turning up the earth.
• UNEARTHLY
  Not terrestrial; supernatural; preternatural; hence, weird; appalling; terrific; as, an unearthly sight or sound. -- Un*earth"li*ness, n.
• MIDDLE-EARTH
  The world, considered as lying between heaven and hell. Shak.
• YEARTH
  The earth. "Is my son dead or hurt or on the yerthe felled" Ld. Berners.
• EARTH
  OHG. erda, G. erde, Icel. jör, Sw. & Dan. jord, Goth. airpa, OHG. 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