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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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"Dirt" Quotes from Famous Books

... noise or circumstance; yet once I was thoroughly done up, as you would say. I was reciting, at a particular house, the "Remorse;" and was in the midst of Alhadra's description of the death of her husband, [1] when a scrubby boy, with a shining face set in dirt, burst open the door and cried out,—"Please, ma'am, master says, Will you ha'; or will ...

— Specimens of the Table Talk of S.T.Coleridge • Coleridge

... influence a man of such depth as Louis Napoleon, and to imagine that a Hughes will be able to do it! I am ashamed of Mr. Seward; he proves by this would-be-crotchety policy how little he knows of events and of men, and how he undervalues Louis Napoleon. Such humbug missions are good to throw dirt in the eyes of a Lincoln, a Chase, etc., but in Europe such things are sent to Coventry. And Hughes to ...

— Diary from March 4, 1861, to November 12, 1862 • Adam Gurowski

... by this time. As he approached the auto, containing the three disconcerted cronies, something bounded out of Tom's pocket. It was the bottle of stove blacking he had purchased for Mrs. Baggert. The bottle fell in the soft dirt in front of his forward wheel, and a curious thing happened. Perhaps you have seen a bicycle or auto tire strike a stone at an angle, and throw it into the air with great force. That was what happened to the bottle. ...

— Tom Swift and his Electric Runabout - or, The Speediest Car on the Road • Victor Appleton

... paradise or baked in hell. You could offer them no earthly happiness of decency. Forsooth, beggars as well as kings were of divine right. But I shattered the royal prerogatives and overturned the thrones of the one and lifted the other somewhat out of the dirt. ...

— The Kempton-Wace Letters • Jack London

... was low; the tops of two tall, round tents across the way came between it and his eyes when he sat down. That was the luck of some people, thought he, to arrive too late. The pay-dirt was all worked out; the pasturage was cropped; the dry sage was ...

— Claim Number One • George W. (George Washington) Ogden

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