Word Meanings - MIDGARD - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The middle space or region between heaven and hell; the abode of human beings; the earth.

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• MIDDLE
  1. Equally distant from the extreme either of a number of things or of one thing; mean; medial; as, the middle house in a row; a middle rank or station in life; flowers of middle summer; men of middle age. 2. Intermediate; intervening.
• 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.
• HUMANIFY
  To make human; to invest with a human personality; to incarnate. The humanifying of the divine Word. H. B. Wilson.
• HUMANIZE
  To convert into something human or belonging to man; as, to humanize vaccine lymph. (more info) 1. To render human or humane; to soften; to make gentle by overcoming cruel dispositions and rude habits; to refine or civilize. Was it the business
• HUMANITARIANISM
  The distinctive tenet of the humanitarians in denying the divinity of Christ; also, the whole system of doctrine based upon this view of Christ.
• HUMANISM
  1. Human nature or disposition; humanity. looked almost like a being who had rejected with indifference the attitude of sex for the loftier quality of abstract humanism. T. Hardy. 2. The study of the humanities; polite learning.
• 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.
• SPACE
  One of the intervals, or open places, between the lines of the staff. Absolute space, Euclidian space, etc. See under Absolute, Euclidian, etc. -- Space line , a thin piece of metal used by printers to open the lines of type to a regular distance
• EARTHBRED
  Low; grovelling; vulgar.
• HUMANISTIC
  1. Of or pertaining to humanity; as, humanistic devotion. Caird. 2. Pertaining to polite kiterature. M. Arnold.
• EARTHBANK
  A bank or mound of earth.
• EARTHQUAVE
  An earthquake.
• MIDDLE-GROUND
  That part of a picture between the foreground and the background.
• HUMANITY
  The branches of polite or elegant learning; as language, rhetoric, poetry, and the ancient classics; belles-letters. Note: The cultivation of the languages, literature, history, and archæology of Greece and Rome, were very commonly called literæ
• HUMANIST
  1. One of the scholars who in the field of literature proper represented the movement of the Renaissance, and early in the 16th century adopted the name Humanist as their distinctive title. Schaff- Herzog. 2. One who purposes the study
• HUMANKIND
  Mankind. Pope.
• MIDDLE-EARTH
  The world, considered as lying between heaven and hell. Shak.
• EARTHDRAKE
  A mythical monster of the early Anglo-Saxon literature; a dragon. W. Spalding.
• INHUMANITY
  The quality or state of being inhuman; cruelty; barbarity. Man's inhumanity to man Makes countless thousands mourn. Burns.
• UNEARTHLY
  Not terrestrial; supernatural; preternatural; hence, weird; appalling; terrific; as, an unearthly sight or sound. -- Un*earth"li*ness, n.
• PHOTIC REGION
  The uppermost zone of the sea, which receives the most light.