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ay and sand, with organic matter to which its fertility is chiefly due. We wash a wall of loam; we labor in vain. Hooker.

Consisting of loam; partaking of the nature of loam; resembling loam. Bacon.

The twilight; gloaming. [R.] Keats.

Twilight; dusk; the fall of the evening. [Scot. & North of Eng., and in poetry.] Hogg.

A layer of earth between coal seams.

Paste of clay or loam. Holland.

The top part of a flask or mold; the outer part of a loam mold. Knight. De Colange.

Twilight; gloaming. [Prov. Eng. & Scot.] Wright.

A deposit of superficial loam, sand, gravel, stones, etc., caused by former action of flowing waters, or the melting of glacial ice.

the globe, in distinction from the firm rock; soil of all kinds, including gravel, clay, loam, and the like; sometimes, soil favorable to the growth of plants; the visible surface of the globe; the ground; as, loose earth; rich earth. Give him a little earth for charity. Shak.

Twilight (of morning or evening); the gloaming. When the faint glooming in the sky First lightened into day. Trench. The balmy glooming, crescent-lit. Tennyson.

miner's name for freestone. Raymond. Hazel earth, soil suitable for the hazel; a fertile loam. -- Hazel grouse (Zoöl.), a European grouse (Bonasa betulina), allied to the American ruffed grouse. -- Hazel hoe, a kind of grub hoe. -- Witch hazel. See Witch-hazel, and Hamamelis.

To make dense or close, as clay or loam, by working when wet, so as to render impervious to water.

The process of working clay, loam, pulverized ore, etc., with water, to render it compact, or impervious to liquids; also, the process of rendering anything impervious to liquids by means of puddled material.

A movable templet for making molds, in loam molding.

To moisten to a proper consistency and stir thoroughly, as clay for making brick, loam for molding, etc.