earth (the foll. are obs. or special uses; 1 was in use from Anglo-Saxon times down to the 17th c.)
1.
country,
land Wint. III. iii. 44,
John II. i. 344
“the this climate
overlooks,”
R2 II. i. 41,
H8 III. i. 142
“this English ”
; landed estate
Rom. I. ii. 15
“She is the hopeful lady
of my earth.”
2.
a type of dull, dead
matter
R2 III. iv. 78
“thou little better
thing than earth,”
Lr. V. iii. 263.
3.
the body Sonn. cxlvi. 1.
