That law preserves the earth a sphere
And guides the planets in their course. S. Rogers.

In heaven, or earth, or under earth, in hell. Milton.

God called the dry land earth. Gen. i. 10.

He is pure air and fire, and the dull elements of earth and water never appear in him. Shak.

Give him a little earth for charity. Shak.

Would I had never trod this English earth. Shak.

Our weary souls by earth beguiled. Keble.

The whole earth was of one language. Gen. xi. 1.

They [ferrets] course the poor conies out of their earths. Holland.

* Earth is used either adjectively or in combination to form compound words; as, earth apple or earth-apple; earth metal or earth-metal; earth closet or earth-closet.

Adamic earth, Bitter earth, Bog earth, Chian earth, etc. See under Adamic, Bitter, etc. -- Alkaline earths. See under Alkaline. -- Earth apple. (Bot.) (a) A potato. (b) A cucumber. -- Earth auger, a form of auger for boring into the ground; -- called also earth borer. -- Earth bath, a bath taken by immersing the naked body in earth for healing purposes. -- Earth battery (Physics), a voltaic battery the elements of which are buried in the earth to be acted on by its moisture. -- Earth chestnut, the pignut. -- Earth closet, a privy or commode provided with dry earth or a similar substance for covering and deodorizing the fæcal discharges. -- Earth dog (Zoöl.), a dog that will dig in the earth, or enter holes of foxes, etc. -- Earth hog, Earth pig (Zoöl.), the aard- vark. -- Earth hunger, an intense desire to own land, or, in the case of nations, to extend their domain. -- Earth light (Astron.), the light reflected by the earth, as upon the moon, and corresponding to moonlight; -- called also earth shine. Sir J. Herschel. -- Earth metal. See 1st Earth, 7. (Chem.) -- Earth oil, petroleum. -- Earth pillars or pyramids (Geol.), high pillars or pyramids of earth, sometimes capped with a single stone, found in Switzerland. Lyell. -- Earth pitch (Min.), mineral tar, a kind of asphaltum. -- Earth quadrant, a fourth of the earth's circumference. -- Earth table (Arch.), the lowest course of stones visible in a building; the ground table. -- On earth, an intensive expression, oftenest used in questions and exclamations; as, What on earth shall I do? Nothing on earth will satisfy him. [Colloq.]

The miser earths his treasure, and the thief,
Watching the mole, half beggars him ere noon. Young.

Why this in earthing up a carcass? R. Blair.

Such land as ye break up for barley to sow,
Two earths at the least, ere ye sow it, bestow. Tusser.

* When the resistance of the earth connection is low it is termed a good earth.