Dirt

5 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Dirt \Dirt\, v. t.
     To make foul of filthy; to dirty. --Swift.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:



  Dirt \Dirt\ (d[~e]rt), n. [OE. drit; kin to Icel. drit
     excrement, dr[imac]ta to dung, OD. drijten to dung, AS.
     gedr[imac]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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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  dirt
       adj : (of roads) not leveled or drained; unsuitable for all year
             travel [syn: {ungraded}]
       n 1: the part of the earth's surface consisting of humus and
            disintegrated rock [syn: {soil}]
       2: the state of being covered with unclean things [syn: {filth},
           {grime}, {soil}, {stain}, {grease}, {grunge}]
       3: obscene terms for feces [syn: {crap}, {shit}, {shite}, {poop},
           {turd}]
       4: disgraceful gossip about the private lives of other people
          [syn: {scandal}, {malicious gossip}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  112 Moby Thesaurus words for "dirt":
     Rabelaisianism, X-rated movie, acres, alluvion, alluvium,
     arable land, bawdiness, bawdry, blue movie,
     character assassination, clay, clod, corruption, crust, dirtiness,
     dirty movie, dope, dross, dry land, dust, earth, erotic art,
     erotic literature, erotographomania, excrement, fescenninity,
     filth, filthiness, foulness, freehold, garbage, glebe, gossip,
     gossip column, grassland, grime, ground, iconolagny, indecency,
     inside information, juicy morsel, junk, land, landholdings,
     leavings, lewdness, lithosphere, loam, low-down, malicious gossip,
     marginal land, marl, mire, mold, muck, mud, nastiness, obscenity,
     offal, offensiveness, ooze, ordure, orts, pornographic art,
     pornographic literature, pornographomania, pornography,
     real estate, real property, refuse, region, regolith, ribaldry,
     rubbish, rumor, salaciousness, salacity, scandal, scandalmongering,
     scrap, scurrility, scuttlebutt, sexploitation, sharp practice,
     skin flick, slander, slime, slop, sludge, smut, smuttiness, sod,
     soft-core pornography, soil, soot, stag film, subaerial deposit,
     subsoil, sweepings, talk, terra, terra firma, terrain, territory,
     the country, tidbit, topsoil, trash, vileness, waste,
     whispering campaign, woodland
  
  

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03) [foldoc]:

  Dirt
       
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