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.
Whose waters cast up mire and dirt.
Meanness; sordidness.
Honors . . . thrown away upon dirt and infamy.
In placer mining, earth, gravel, etc., before washing.
Phrases & Compounds
Dirt bed
a layer of clayey earth forming a stratum in a geological formation. Dirt beds are common among the coal measures.
Dirt eating
The use of certain kinds of clay for food, existing among some tribes of Indians; geophagism.
Dirt pie
clay or mud molded by children in imitation of pastry.
To eat dirt
to submit in a meanly humble manner to insults; to eat humble pie.