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t jointed legs. The principal subdivisions are the Chætopoda, including the Oligochæta or earthworms and Polychæta or marine worms; and the Hirudinea or leeches. See Chætopoda.

Performed or accomplished in a year; reckoned by the year; as, the annual motion of the earth. A thousand pound a year, annual support. Shak.

lass of articulate animals, nearly equivalent to Annelida, including the marine annelids, earthworms, Gephyrea, Gymnotoma, leeches, etc. See Annelida.

The first or conditional part of a hypothetical proposition; as, If the earth is fixed, the sun must move.

A small intrenchment or work of palisades, or of sacks of earth.

A hypothetical earth counter to ours, or on the opposite side of the sun. Grote.

The upward elevation of the crust of the earth, resulting from a geanticlinal.

The inhabitants of the earth, living on different sides of the equator, whose shadows at noon are cast in opposite directions. The inhabitants of the north and south temperate zones are always Antiscians. Brande & C.

The end or edge of a vein nearest the surface. [U.S.] Apex of the earth's motion (Astron.), that point of the heavens toward which the earth is moving in its orbit.

That point in the orbit of the moon which is at the greatest distance from the earth.

rcle which in a level plain bounds our view, and is formed by the apparent meeting of the earth and heavens, as distinguished from the rational horizon. -- Apparent time. See Time. -- Heir apparent (Law), one whose to an estate is indefeasible if he survives the ancestor; -- in distinction from presumptive heir. See…

lants of a particular class; plant and vegetable are names of things that grow out of the earth. A proper name, on the other hand, stands for a single thing; as, Rome, Washington, Lake Erie.

th power or firmness; to establish; to mark out. When he appointed the foundations of the earth. Prov. viii. 29.

ship. The architecture of grasses, plants, and trees. Tyndall. The formation of the first earth being a piece of divine architecture. Burnet. Military architecture, the art of fortifications. -- Naval architecture, the art of building ships.

f propagating trees by bending branches to the ground, and covering the small shoots with earth; layering. Chambers.

An extent of surface; a tract of the earth's surface; a region; as, vast uncultivated areas.

The act of drying, or the state of growing dry. The arefaction of the earth. Sir M. Hale.

Clay, or potter's earth; sometimes pure clay, or alumina. See Clay.

Producing clay; -- applied to such earths as abound with argil. Kirwan.

Consisting of, or containing, clay and calcareous earth.