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c.; whatever, adhering to anything, renders it foul or unclean; earth; as, a wagonload of dirt. Whose waters cast up mire and dirt. Is. lvii. 20.

In a dirty manner; foully; nastily; filthily; meanly; sordidly.

The state of being dirty; filthiness; foulness; nastiness; baseness; sordidness.

Defiled with dirt; foul; nasty; filthy; not clean or pure; serving to defile; as, dirty hands; dirty water; a dirty white. Spenser.

Earth, rock, etc., which yields a profit to the miner. [Western U. S.]

Dirty; foul; -- said of clothes. [Obs.] It [a garment] is al bawdy and to-tore also. Chaucer.

To daub over; to besmear or soil with anything thick and dirty. Bedaub foul designs with a fair varnish. Barrow.

To soil with grime or dirt deeply impressed or rubbed in. Books falling to pieces and begrimed with dust. Macaulay.

To drag through, encumber with, or fix in, the mire; to soil by passing through mud or dirt. Bemired and benighted in the dog. Burke.

To soil or encumber with mire and dirt. [Obs.] Shak.

To soil by spattering; to sprinkle, esp. with dirty water, mud, or anything which will leave foul spots or stains.

Wet and dirty; begrimed. [Obs. or Dial.] Herrick.

Bespotted with mud or dirt. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Sticky and foul; muddy; filthy; dirty. [Prov. Eng.] Halliwell.

Free from dirt or filth; as, clean clothes.

Cleansing; fitted to remove moisture; dirt, etc. [Obs.] "With cleanly powder dry their hair." Prior.

llows the escape of a yellow wormlike mass of retained oily secretion, with a black head (dirt).

Soot; coal dust; refuse matter, as the dirty grease which comes from axle boxes, or the refuse at the mouth of an oven. Phillips. Bailey.

A hood over the end of a wagon wheel hub to keep dirt away from the axle.

A dirty or clotted lock of wool on a sheep; a taglock.