TERRA
\tˈɛɹə], \tˈɛɹə], \t_ˈɛ_ɹ_ə]\
Definitions of TERRA
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1908 - Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary of the English Language
- 1900 - A dictionary of medicine and the allied sciences
- 1919 - The concise Oxford dictionary of current English
- 1898 - American pocket medical dictionary
- 1916 - Appleton's medical dictionary
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By James Champlin Fernald
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ter'a, n. earth.--ns. TERR'A-COT'TA, a composition of clay and sand used for statues, hardened like bricks by fire; TERR'ACULTURE, agriculture; TERR'Æ-FIL'IUS, a person of humble origin: formerly the title of a scholar at Oxford who composed annually a satirical lampoon in which considerable license was allowed; TERR'A-FIR'MA, a term frequently employed to denote continental land as distinguished from islands: (coll.) land as distinguished from water; TERR'A-JAPON'ICA, pale catechu or gambier; TERR'A-MARA (-mä'ra), an earthy deposit containing fertilising organic or mineral matter, any deposit containing prehistoric remains.--adjs. TERR[=A]'N[=E]AN, being in the earth; TERR[=A]'N[=E]OUS, growing on land.--ns. TERR[=A]'RIUM, a vivarium for land animals; TERR'A-ROS'SA, a name given to a ferruginous red earth extensively developed in the limestone districts of south-eastern Europe, esp. in Istria and Dalmatia. [L. terra, earth; L. cocta, pa.p. of coqu[)e]re, to cook; L. firmus, firm; It. amara, bitter; rosso, red.]
By Thomas Davidson
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[Latin] Earth. T. alba, white clay. T. japonica, catechu. T. foliate tartari, potassium acetate. T. lemnia, a yellowish ferruginous clay obtained from Lemnos. T. ponderosa, baryta. T. sigillata, Armenian or other varieties of bole (clay) stamped with a seal.
By Alexander Duane
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Earth (in various L& It. phrr.): t. cariosa, tripoli, rotten-stone; t.-cotta, hard pottery used as ornamental building-material& in statuary (often attrib.), statue, figurine, of this[It., = baked earth]; terrae filius, son of the soil, humbly-born person; t. firma, dry land; t. incognita, unknown region; t. Japonica, gambier; t. nera (nara), pigment used by ancient artists.; t. verde, green earth used as pigment.
By Sir Augustus Henry