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A flat roof to a house; as, the buildings of the Oriental nations are covered with terraces.

Cultivation on the earth; agriculture. [R.] -- Ter`ra*cul"tur*al, a. [R.]

A group of rocks having a common age or origin; -- nearly equivalent to formation, but used somewhat less comprehensively.

g in fresh and brackish waters. Many of them are valued for food. [Written also terapin, terrapen, terrapene, and turapen.]

Consisting of land and water; as, the earth is a terraqueous globe. Cudworth. The grand terraqueous spectacle From center to circumference unveiled. Wordsworth.

See 2d Terrier, 2.

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One who has the actual possession of land; the occupant. [Written also ter-tenant.]

An olive-green earth used as a pigment. See Glauconite.

See Turren.

Quality of being earthy; earthiness. [Obs.] B. Jonson.

A spherical magnet so placed that its poles, equator, etc., correspond to those of the earth. [Obs.] Chambers.

An earthquake. [Obs.] Gower.

Of or pertaining to the earth; earthy; as, terrene substance. Holland.

Earthiness; worldliness. [Obs.] "A dull and low terrenity." Feltham.

Consisting of earth; earthy; as, terreous substances; terreous particles. [Obs.]

The top, platform, or horizontal surface, of a rampart, on which the cannon are placed. See Illust. of Casemate.

Terrestrial; earthly. [Obs.] "His paradise terrestre." Chaucer.

Of or pertaining to the earth; existing on the earth; earthly; as, terrestrial animals. "Bodies terrestrial." 1 Cor. xv. 40.

To convert or reduce into a condition like that of the earth; to make earthy. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.