Earth shine

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• Shine

  ·vi Shining; sheen. II. Shine ·noun Caper; antic; row. III. Shine ·noun Sunshine; fair weather. I...

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• shine

  It shines like a shitten barn door. ...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• shine

  To take the shine off, is to surpass in beauty or excellence. Cousin P--, with his dandy cut trouse...

  Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.

• shine

  ♦ To take the shine out of. To excel another vessel in a manœuvre. To surpass in any way. ...

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• Earth

  ·noun The people on the globe. II. Earth ·noun A <<Plowing>>. III. Earth ·vi To <<Burrow>>. IV. E...

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• Earth

  1) In the sense of soil or ground, the translation of the word adamah'. In Gen. 9:20 "husbandman" is...

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• earth

  One of the primary planets, and the third in order from the sun. ...

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• Earth

  The term is used in two widely-different senses: (1) for the material of which the earth's surface i...

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• Cassel earth

  ·add. ·- A brown pigment of varying permanence, consisting of impure lignite. It was found originall...

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• Cologne earth

  ·- An earth of a deep brown color, containing more vegetable than mineral matter; an earthy variety ...

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• Earth flax

  ·- A variety of asbestus. ·see <<Amianthus>>. ...

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• Earth-tongue

  ·noun A fungus of the genus Geoglossum. ...

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• Middle-earth

  ·noun The world, considered as lying between heaven and hell. ...

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• earth bath

  A Grave. ...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• earth-bags

  See sand-bags. ...

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• to take the shine off

  To surpass; excel. Dublin is worth seein'; it takes the shine off most cities.--Sam Slick, 3d Serie...

  Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.

• figure of the earth

  The form of our globe, which is that of an oblate spheroid with an ellipticity of about 1/299. ...

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