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Earth

The globe or planet which we inhabit; the world, in distinction from the sun, moon, or stars. Also, this world as the dwelling place of mortals, in distinction from the dwelling place of spirits.

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Archipelago 76% connected

The Grecian Archipelago, or Aegean Sea, separating Greece from Asia Minor. It is studded with a vast number of small islands.

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Cape 76% connected

A piece or point of land, extending beyond the adjacent coast into the sea or a lake; a promontory; a headland.

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Champaign 76% connected

A flat, open country.

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Dirt 76% connected

Any foul of filthy substance, as excrement, mud, dust, etc.; whatever, adhering to anything, renders it foul or unclean; earth; as, a wagonload of di…

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Field 76% connected

Cleared land; land suitable for tillage or pasture; cultivated ground; the open country.

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Floor 76% connected

The bottom or lower part of any room; the part upon which we stand and upon which the movables in the room are supported.

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Foreland 76% connected

A promontory or cape; a headland; as, the North and South Foreland in Kent, England.

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Forest 76% connected

An extensive wood; a large tract of land covered with trees; in the United States, a wood of native growth, or a tract of woodland which has never be…

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Island 76% connected

A tract of land surrounded by water, and smaller than a continent. Cf. Continent.

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Isthmus 76% connected

A neck or narrow slip of land by which two continents are connected, or by which a peninsula is united to the mainland; as, the Isthmus of Panama; th…

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Kieselguhr 76% connected

Siliceous earth; specifically, porous infusorial earth, used as an absorbent of nitroglycerin in the manufacture of dynamite.

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Mainland 76% connected

The continent; the principal land; -- opposed to island, or peninsula.

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Moraine 76% connected

An accumulation of earth and stones carried forward and deposited by a glacier.

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Neck 76% connected

The part of an animal which connects the head and the trunk, and which, in man and many other animals, is more slender than the trunk.

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Ness 76% connected

A promontory; a cape; a headland.

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Oxbow 76% connected

A frame of wood, bent into the shape of the letter U, and embracing an ox's neck as a kind of collar, the upper ends passing through the bar of the y…

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Peninsula 76% connected

A portion of land nearly surrounded by water, and connected with a larger body by a neck, or isthmus.

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Plain 76% connected

To lament; to bewail; to complain.

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Slash 76% connected

To cut by striking violently and at random; to cut in long slits.

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Soil 76% connected

To feed, as cattle or horses, in the barn or an inclosure, with fresh grass or green food cut for them, instead of sending them out to pasture; hence…

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Timber 76% connected

A certain quantity of fur skins, as of martens, ermines, sables, etc., packed between boards; being in some cases forty skins, in others one hundred…

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Wonderland 76% connected

A land full of wonders, or marvels.

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Woodland 76% connected

Land covered with wood or trees; forest; land on which trees are suffered to grow, either for fuel or timber.

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Concern 76% connected

To relate or belong to; to have reference to or connection with; to affect the interest of; to be of importance to.

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Connection 76% connected

The act of connecting, or the state of being connected; junction; union; alliance; relationship.

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Connective 76% connected

Connecting, or adapted to connect; involving connection.

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Connector 76% connected

One who, or that which, connects

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Connexion 76% connected

Connection. See Connection.

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Element 76% connected

One of the simplest or essential parts or principles of which anything consists, or upon which the constitution or fundamental powers of anything are…

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Ground 76% connected

of Grind

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Hide 76% connected

To conceal, or withdraw from sight; to put out of view; to secrete.

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Location 76% connected

The act or process of locating.

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Material 76% connected

Consisting of matter; not spiritual; corporeal; physical; as, material substance or bodies.

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Object 76% connected

To set before or against; to bring into opposition; to oppose.

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Stuff 76% connected

Material which is to be worked up in any process of manufacture.

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Earthly 74% connected

Pertaining to the earth; belonging to this world, or to man's existence on the earth; not heavenly or spiritual; carnal; worldly; as, earthly joys; e…

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Earthly 74% connected

Pertaining to the earth; belonging to this world, or to man's existence on the earth; not heavenly or spiritual; carnal; worldly; as, earthly joys; e…

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Earthy 74% connected

Consisting of, or resembling, earth; terrene; earthlike; as, earthy matter.

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Earthy 74% connected

Consisting of, or resembling, earth; terrene; earthlike; as, earthy matter.

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Ground 74% connected

of Grind

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Ground 74% connected

of Grind

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Ground 92% connected

of Grind

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Land 92% connected

Urine. See Lant.

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World 92% connected

The earth and the surrounding heavens; the creation; the system of created things; existent creation; the universe.

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