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noun

Dirt n.

Any foul of filthy substance, as excrement, mud, dust, etc.; whatever, adhering to anything, renders it foul or unclean; earth; as, a wagonload of dirt. "Whose waters cast up mire and dirt."

Meanness; sordidness. "Honors... thrown away upon dirt and infamy."

In placer mining, earth, gravel, etc., before washing.

Dirt bed (Geom.), a layer of clayey earth forming a stratum in a geological formation. Dirt beds are common among the coal measures.

Dirt eating.

(a)

The use of certain kinds of clay for food, existing among some tribes of Indians; geophagism.

(b)

(Med.) Same as Chthonophagia.

Dirt pie, clay or mud molded by children in imitation of pastry.

To eat dirt, to submit in a meanly humble manner to insults; to eat humble pie.

verb

Dirt v. t. To make foul of filthy; to dirty.

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Dirt" Quotes from Famous Books

... had said thus he pulled out a piece of an earthen pot baked hard in the sun. "Here," says he, "is some of the dirt of this country, and if I would I could have got a great deal more;" and, showing it to us, I believe there was in it between two and three pounds weight of gold-dust, of the same kind and colour with that we had gotten already, as ...

— The Life, Adventures & Piracies of the Famous Captain Singleton • Daniel Defoe

... Dolly said, with a frown. "We've got company, and you are both as black as the pot. If I were you I'd certainly stop at the branch and wash the dirt off ...

— The Desired Woman • Will N. Harben

... o' Hornbook's way; [sample] Thus goes he on from day to day, Thus does he poison, kill an' slay, An's weel pay'd for't; Yet stops me o' my lawfu' prey Wi' his damn'd dirt. ...

— Robert Burns - How To Know Him • William Allan Neilson

... stepped between him and the door. "Uncle Jas," he said, "mostly I got a lot of respect for you and what you think. Tonight I don't care what you or anybody else has to say. Just one thing matters. I feel I've been living in the dirt. I'm going out and see ...

— Way of the Lawless • Max Brand

... "Ghosts," in which I sought to show that man had been controlled in the past by phantoms created by his own imagination; in which the pencil of fear had drawn pictures for him on the canvass of superstition, and that men had groveled in they dirt before their own superstitious creations. I endeavored to show that man had received nothing from these ghosts but hatred, blood, ignorance and unhappiness, and that they had filled our world with woe and tears. This is what ...

— Lectures of Col. R. G. Ingersoll - Latest • Robert Green Ingersoll

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