yearth etc.,
obs. or dial. ff. earth n.1, etc.
| 1542 Udall Erasm. Apoph. 49 An yearthen potte. 1561 Plowman's T. in Chaucer's Wks. 95 b/2 That taketh maistrie in his name Ghostly, and for yearthly good. c 1581 Lodge Repl. Gosson's Sch. Abuse (Shaks. Soc.) 6 To make a yearthly creature to beare the person of the Creator. 1582 J. Hester Secr. Phiorav. iii. i. 2 Drie the Vitrioll in a yearthen pan. 1688 Holme Armoury iii. 261/2 Yearthing, put Earth about [the kiln]. 1828 Craven Gloss., Yearthen, earthen. |