earth

Alternative letter-case form of Earth; our planet, third out from the Sun.

The astronauts saw the earth from the porthole.

We live in the flicker - may it last as long as the old earth keeps rolling!

Soil.

This is good earth for growing potatoes.

Any general rock-based material.

She sighed when the plane's wheels finally touched earth.

The ground, land (as opposed to the sky or sea).

Birds are of the sky, not of the earth.

Like most human activities, ballooning has sponsored heroes and hucksters and a good deal in between. For every dedicated scientist patiently recording atmospheric pressure and wind speed while shivering at high altitudes, there is a carnival barker with a bevy of pretty girls willing to dangle from a basket or parachute down to earth.

A connection electrically to the earth ((US) ground); on equipment: a terminal connected in that manner.

The lair or den (as a hole in the ground) of an animal such as a fox.

To connect electrically to the earth.

That noise is because the amplifier is not properly earthed.

To bury.

The Miſer earths his Treaſure; and the Thief, / Watching the Mole, half-beggars him ere Morn.

To hide, or cause to hide, in the earth; to chase into a burrow or den.

[…]the Fox is earth’d,[…]

This is the time that the horseman are flung out, not having the cry to lead them to the death. When quadruped animals of the venery or hunting kind are at rest, the stag is said to be harboured, the buck lodged, the fox kennelled, the badger earthed, the otter vented or watched, the hare formed, and the rabbit set.

To burrow.

foxes earth'd