terra

A rough upland or mountainous region of the moon or other solar system body often having a high albedo relative to other surface features.

Earth, or the earth: sometimes personified, Terra: used especially in various phrases (Latin and Italian).

The earth; earth.

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.

Baked clay; a kind of hard pottery used for statues, architectural decorations, figures, vases, and the like.

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.

firm or solid earth, as opposed to water.

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

Lemnian earth. See under Lemnian.

barite, or heavy spar.