terra

noun

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

noun

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

noun

The earth; earth.

noun

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.

noun

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

noun

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.

noun

firm or solid earth, as opposed to water.

noun

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

noun

Lemnian earth. See under Lemnian.

noun

barite, or heavy spar.