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A soft, earthy substance, of a white, grayish, or yellowish white color, consisting of calcium carbonate, and having the same composition as common limestone.

To crack or open in slits; as, the earth chaps; the hands chap.

A deep opening made by disruption, as a breach in the earth or a rock; a yawning abyss; a cleft; a fissure. That deep, romantic chasm which slanted down the green hill. Coleridge.

A porous earthen pot used in India for cooling water, etc.

A wall that lines the face of a bank or earthwork.

Mellow earth; mold. [Obs.] Bacon.

Of or pertaining to Chios, an island in the Ægean Sea. Chian earth, a dense, compact kind of earth, from Chios, used anciently as an astringent and a cosmetic. -- Chian turpentine, a fragrant, almost transparent turpentine, obtained from the Pistacia Terebinthus.

The doctrine of the personal reign of Christ on earth during the millennium.

One who believes in the second coming of Christ to reign on earth a thousand years; a milllenarian.

A fireplace or hearth. [Obs.] Sir W. Raleigh.

To chirp. Tennyson. The criket chirrups on the hearth. Goldsmith.

The science which treats of the laws of distribution of living organisms over the earth's surface as to latitude, altitude, locality, etc. Its distribution or chorology. Huxley.

Pertaining to the earth; earthy; as, chthonic religions. [The] chthonic character of the wife of Zeus. Max Müller.

A disease characterized by an irresistible desire to eat earth, observed in some parts of the southern United States, the West Indies, etc.

ducing edible tubers, native about the Mediterranean, now cultivated in many regions; the earth almond.

A soft, earthy, clayey mineral, of whitish or grayish color.

The clitellus of earthworms.

A round body; a sphere; an orb. It is he that sitteth upon the circle of the earth. Is. xi. 22.

lving around, or as in a circle or orbit; a revolution; as, the periodical circuit of the earth round the sun. Watts.

To sail completely round. Having circumnavigated the whole earth. T. Fuller.