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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

... the square inch, and nothing but hitting them will make them budge. They are disgusting creatures. Of course the filthy habits of the natives encourage them. The streets are littered with every kind of food-scraps and dirt: and the Arab has only two W.C.'s—the street and the river. Our chief tyranny in his eyes is that we have posted sanitary police about who fine him 2s. if he uses either: but like all reforms ...

— Letters from Mesopotamia • Robert Palmer

... in reply, that such does not become caste, and two pompous-looking servants set upon him brushing the dirt from his clothes with great earnestness. The negroes understand Mr. Scranton at a glance; ...

— Our World, or, The Slaveholders Daughter • F. Colburn Adams

... there is an idea of the good, but not of such things as hair and mud and dirt, Parmenides advises him "not to despise even the meanest things," and this advice shows the genuine scientific temper. It is with this impartial temper that the mystic's apparent insight into a higher reality and a hidden good has to be combined if ...

— Mysticism and Logic and Other Essays • Bertrand Russell

... all covered with ashes and dirt. (To Ogre.) Please, where can I find a towel and a ...

— Three Wonder Plays • Lady I. A. Gregory

... at the surrounding country. In the foreground was a wide dirt street at the rear of the station. For the equivalent of the length of a city block it was lined on both sides with wooden structures one-story in height, but with the false fronts of the frontier country pretending to second stories—a front wall sticking above the roof and with the semblance ...

— The Radio Boys on the Mexican Border • Gerald Breckenridge

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