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   Dirt (dẽrt), n. [OE. drit; kin to Icel. drit excrement, drīta to dung, OD. drijten to dung, AS. gedrītan.]
   1. Any foul of filthy substance, as excrement, mud, dust, etc.; whatever, adhering to anything, renders it foul or unclean; earth; as, “a wagonload of dirt”.
   
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   Whose waters cast up mire and dirt. Is. lvii. 20.
   
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   2. Meanness; sordidness.
   
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   Honors . . . thrown away upon dirt and infamy. Melmoth.
   
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   3. In placer mining, earth, gravel, etc., before washing.
   
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   Dirt bed (Geom.), a layer of clayey earth forming a stratum in a geological formation. Dirt beds are common among the coal measures. -- Dirt eating. (a) The use of certain kinds of clay for food, existing among some tribes of Indians; geophagism. Humboldt. (b) (Med.) Same as Chthonophagia. -- Dirt pie, clay or mud molded by children in imitation of pastry. Otway (1684). -- To eat dirt, to submit in a meanly humble manner to insults; to eat humble pie.
   
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   Dirt, v. t. To make foul of filthy; to dirty.  Swift.
   
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