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Hearth money. Fumage, or fuage, vulgarly called smoke farthings. Blackstone.

furnished or supplied; supplies; outfit; equipment. The form and all the furniture of the earth. Tillotson. The thoughts which make the furniture of their minds. M. Arnold.

A trench in the earth made by, or as by, a plow.

rwork, like a basket without a bottom. Gabions are made of various sizes, and filled with earth in building fieldworks to shelter men from an enemy's fire.

A rare earth, regarded by some as an oxide of the supposed element gadolinium, by others as only a mixture of the oxides of yttrium, erbium, ytterbium, etc.

loss. Acts xxvii. 21. Gained day, the calendar day gained in sailing eastward around the earth. -- To gain ground, to make progress; to advance in any undertaking; to prevail; to acquire strength or extent. -- To gain over, to draw to one's party or interest; to win over. -- To gain the wind (Naut.), to reach the w…

- Gall sickness, a remitting bilious fever in the Netherlands. Dunglison. -- Gall of the earth (Bot.), an herbaceous composite plant with variously lobed and cleft leaves, usually the Prenanthes serpentaria.

A little tile of glazed earthenware. [Obs.] "The substance of galletyle." Bacon.

A glazed earthen pot or vessel, used by druggists and apothecaries for containing medicines, etc.

The mineral or earthy substance associated with metallic ore.

about commonplace or trivial things; talkative; loquacious. The most garrulous people on earth. De Quincey.

or stupidly gazing. I that rather held it better men should perish one by one, Than that earth should stand at gaze like Joshua's moon in Ajalon! Tennyson.

One of the pieces of sod used to line or cover parapets and the faces of earthworks.

An upward bend or flexure of a considerable portion of the earth's crust, resulting in the formation of a class of mountain elevations called anticlinoria; -- opposed to geosynclinal.

Pertaining to, or derived from, earthy or vegetable mold. Geic acid. (Chem.) See Humin.

Having reference to the earth as center; in relation to or seen from the earth, -- usually opposed to heliocentric, as seen from the sun; as, the geocentric longitude or latitude of a planet.

chemical composition of, and of actual or possible chemical changes in, the crust of the earth. -- Ge`o*chem"ic*al (#), a. --Ge`o*chem"ist (#), n.

Of, pertaining to, or illustrating, the revolutions of the earth; as, a geocyclic machine.

Living in the earth; -- applied to the ground beetles.

by means of observations and measurements, the figures and areas of large portions of the earth's surface, or the general figure and dimenshions of the earth; or that branch of surveying in which the curvature of the earth is taken into account, as in the surveys of States, or of long lines of coast.…