See sand-bags.
·noun The people on the globe. II. Earth ·noun A <<Plowing>>. III. Earth ·vi To <<Burrow>>. IV. E...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
1) In the sense of soil or ground, the translation of the word adamah'. In Gen. 9:20 "husbandman" is...
Easton's Bible Dictionary
One of the primary planets, and the third in order from the sun. ...
The Sailor's Word-Book
The term is used in two widely-different senses: (1) for the material of which the earth's surface i...
William Smith's Bible Dictionary
tripe. Cumb. ...
A glossary of provincial and local words used in England by Francis Grose
The sacks used on the India station for holding rice, biscuit, &c.; often as sand-bags in fortificat...
Canvas bags filled with oakum, used in heavy seas to stop the hawse-holes and prevent the water comi...
Leathern bags containing from 20 to 40 lbs. of powder; substituted for petards at the instance of Lo...
Small square cushions made of canvas and painted, for boats' ballast. Also, bags containing about a ...
·add. ·- A brown pigment of varying permanence, consisting of impure lignite. It was found originall...
·- An earth of a deep brown color, containing more vegetable than mineral matter; an earthy variety ...
·- A variety of asbestus. ·see <<Amianthus>>. ...
·- ·see Earth light, under <<Earth>>. ...
·noun A fungus of the genus Geoglossum. ...
·noun The world, considered as lying between heaven and hell. ...
A Grave. ...
Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
The form of our globe, which is that of an oblate spheroid with an ellipticity of about 1/299. ...