Definition of Airth

1. Noun. (chiefly Scotland) (alternative spelling of earth) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Airth

1. to airt [v -ED, -ING, -S] - See also: airt

Lexicographical Neighbors of Airth

airspeeds
airstair
airstairs
airstone
airstones
airstop
airstops
airstream
airstreams
airstrike
airstrikes
airstrip
airstrips
airt
airted
airth (current term)
airthed
airthing
airths
airtight
airtightly
airtightness
airtightnesses
airtime
airtimes
airting
airtrapping
airts
airwall
airwalls

Literary usage of Airth

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A Genealogical and Heraldic Dictionary of the Landed Gentry of Great Britain by Sir Bernard Burke (1862)
"1746, and «as >. by his •on, WILLIAM GRAHAM, Esq. of airth Castle, b. in 1730, who m. Ann«, dau. of Sir Henry Stirling, Bart of Ardoch, co. ..."

2. The Ecclesiastical Architecture of Scotland from the Earliest Christian by Ross, Thomas, David MacGibbon (1896)
"This ruined church adjoins the old Castle of airth, which lies half a mile from the ... airth Church. Plan. nave and chancel, having a south wing or aisle, ..."

3. Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland by Society of Antiquaries of Scotland (1879)
"On the south side of the nave, and corresponding with, but somewhat wider than the arch before mentioned, may be seen what is known as the airth Aisle. ..."

4. The Monthly Review by Charles William Wason (1842)
"History of the Earldoms of Strathern, Monteith, and airth. By SIR HARRIS NICOLAS. Pickering. WITH this History we have a " Report of the Proceedings before ..."

5. Ordnance Gazetteer of Scotland: A Survey of Scottish Topography, Staistical by Francis Hindes Groome (1882)
"Excepting the central hills of Dunmore and airth, the latter and higher of which ... Plantations, luxuriant and well assorted, adorn the airth and Dun- more ..."

6. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1868)
"Let them bestow on every airth a limb, Then open all my veins, that I may swim To Thee, my Maker ! on я crimson lake ; Tben place my parboiled head upon a ..."

7. Extracts from the Records of the Royal Burgh of Stirling by Glasgow Stirlingshire and Sons of the Rock Society, Robert Renwick, Stirling (Scotland) (1887)
"... and thair wpon thaj tuik instrument. n ir, to the hospi- 20 August 1600. airth and The ... of the tounes of Falkirk and airth. airth. ..."

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