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ying cities and many thousand lives; -- called also earthdin, earthquave, and earthshock. Earthquake alarm, a bell signal constructed to operate on the theory that a few seconds before the occurrence of an earthquake the magnet temporarily loses its power.

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

Fig.: That which gives or strengthens life. The earthquake voice of victory, To thee the breath of life. Byron.

were the first that ever burst Into that silent sea. Coleridge. To burst upon him like an earthquake. Goldsmith.

Same as Deflour. An earthquake . . . deflowering the gardens. W. Montagu. If a man had deflowered a virgin. Milton.

broken in pieces; breach; rent; dilaceration; rupture; as, the disruption of rocks in an earthquake; disruption of a state.

ks; also, the sport of so throwing stones; -- sometimes called ducks and drakes. Internal earthquakes, that, not content with one throe, run along spasmodically, like boys playing at what is called drakestone. De Quincey.

An earthquake. [Obs.]

An earthquake.

An earthquake.

or distention, as of the breast in difficult breathing, of the waves, of the earth in an earthquake, and the like. There's matter in these sighs, these profound heaves, You must translate. Shak. None could guess whether the next heave of the earthquake would settle . . . or swallow them. Dryden.

used clashing or confusion; to resound. The noise of battle hurtled in the air. Shak. The earthquake sound Hurtling 'death the solid ground. Mrs. Browning.

as, to rock a cradle or chair; to cause to vibrate; to cause to reel or totter. A rising earthquake rocked the ground. Dryden.

Of or pertaining to an earthquake; caused by an earthquake. Seismic vertical, the point upon the earth's surface vertically over the center of effort or focal point whence the earthquake's impulse proceeds, or the vertical line connecting these two points.

An apparatus for registering the shocks and undulatory motions of earthquakes.

A writing about, or a description of, earthquakes.

The science of earthquakes.

An instrument for measuring the direction, duration, and force of earthquakes and like concussions.

The mensuration of such phenomena of earthquakes as can be expressed in numbers, or by their relation to the coördinates of space.

up and down movement, and not merely tremulous oscillation; as, the succussive motion in earthquakes.