terra : Idioms & Phrases

• noun finely pulverized gypsum used especially as a pigment
  
• noun fine white clay used in making tobacco pipes and pottery and in whitening leather
  pipeclay.
  
• noun a fine usually white clay formed by the weathering of aluminous minerals (as feldspar); used in ceramics and as an absorbent and as a filler (e.g., in paper)
  china stone; china clay; kaoline; porcelain clay; kaolin.
  

WordNet

• L., white earth (Com.), a white amorphous earthy substance consisting of burnt gypsum, aluminium silicate (kaolin), or some similar ingredient, as magnesia. It is sometimes used to adulterate certain foods, spices, candies, paints, etc.

Webster 1913

• noun a hard unglazed brownish-red earthenware
  

WordNet

• . It., fr. terra earth + cotta, fem. of cotto cooked, L. coctus, p.p. of coquere to cook. See Cook, n. Baked clay; a kind of hard pottery used for statues, architectural decorations, figures, vases, and the like.

Webster 1913

• . See Sienna.

Webster 1913

• noun the solid part of the earth's surface
  dry land; land; earth; solid ground; ground.
  
  • the plane turned away from the sea and moved back over land
  • the earth shook for several minutes
  • he dropped the logs on the ground

WordNet

• L., firm or solid earth, as opposed to water.

Webster 1913

• noun an unknown and unexplored region
  unknown; unknown region.
  
  • they came like angels out the unknown

WordNet

• . NL. Same as Gambier. It was formerly supposed to be a kind of earth from Japan.

Webster 1913

• L., Lemnian earth, Lemnian earth. See under Lemnian.

Webster 1913

• L., ponderous earth (Min.), barite, or heavy spar.

Webster 1913

• noun earthenware made from the reddish-brown clay found on the Aegean island of Lemnos
  Samian ware.
  

WordNet

• L., son of the earth, formerly, one appointed to write a satirical Latin poem at the public acts in the University of Oxford; not unlike the prevaricator at Cambridge, England.

Webster 1913