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To heap up. [Obs.] The violence of the waters aggested the earth. Fuller.

Not forming an angle. Agonic line (Physics), an imaginary line on the earth's surface passing through those places where the magnetic needle points to the true north; the line of no magnetic variation. There is one such line in the Western hemisphere, and another in the Eastern hemisphere.

The fluid which we breathe, and which surrounds the earth; the atmosphere. It is invisible, inodorous, insipid, transparent, compressible, elastic, and ponderable.

A vessel of porous earthenware, used for cooling liquids by evaporation from the exterior surface.

f or pertaining to an alkali or to alkalies; having the properties of an alkali. Alkaline earths, certain substances, as lime, baryta, strontia, and magnesia, possessing some of the qualities of alkalies. -- Alkaline metals, potassium, sodium, cæsium, lithium, rubidium. -- Alkaline reaction, a reaction indicating alk…

each other, or at short intervals; as in the following lines: - Behemoth, biggest born of earth, upheaved His vastness. Milton. Fly o'er waste fens and windy fields. Tennyson.

Deposits of earth, sand, gravel, and other transported matter, made by rivers, floods, or other causes, upon land not permanently submerged beneath the waters of lakes or seas. Lyell.

One of the earths, consisting of two parts of aluminium and three of oxygen, Al2O3.

, or that which, amalgamates. Specifically: A machine for separating precious metals from earthy particles by bringing them in contact with a body of mercury with which they form an amalgam.

Unfading, as the poetic amaranth; undying. They only amaranthine flower on earth Is virtue. Cowper.

Earth flax, or mountain flax; a soft silky variety of asbestus.

e custom for an amorist to impress the name of his mistress in the dust, or upon the damp earth, with letters fixed upon his shoe. Southey.

An earth abounding in pyrites, used by the ancients to kill insects, etc., on vines; -- applied by Brongniart to a carbonaceous alum schist.

of a child; -- so called because the friends of the parents carried the child around the hearth and then named it.

Moving up and down; -- said of earthquake shocks.

d to a ship by a cable (rope or chain), and which, being cast overboard, lays hold of the earth by a fluke or hook and thus retains the ship in a particular station.

ancient authors, literature, history; ancient days. Witness those ancient empires of the earth. Milton. Gildas Albanius . . . much ancienter than his namesake surnamed the Wise. Fuller.

A earthworm of the genus Lumbricus, frequently used by anglers for bait. See Earthworm.

To heat, as glass, tiles, or earthenware, in order to fix the colors laid on them.

The burning of metallic colors into glass, earthenware, etc.