DIRT
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Dirt (d&etilde_;rt), n. [OE. drit; kin to Icel. drit excrement, dr&ī;ta to dung, OD. drijten to dung, AS. gedr&ī;tan.] 1. 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.
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Whose waters cast up mire and dirt.
Is. lvii. 20.
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2. Meanness; sordidness.
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Honors . . . thrown away upon dirt and infamy.
Melmoth.
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3. In placer mining, earth, gravel, etc., before washing.
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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. Humboldt. (b) (Med.) Same as Chthonophagia. -- Dirt pie, clay or mud molded by children in imitation of pastry. Otway (1684). -- To eat dirt, to submit in a meanly humble manner to insults; to eat humble pie.
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Dirt, v. t. To make foul of filthy; to dirty. Swift.
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