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‖ Tellus|ˈtɛləs|
[L. tellūs.]
In Roman mythology, the goddess of the earth; hence, the earth personified; the planet Earth, the terrestrial globe.
c1430Lydg. Min. Poems (Percy Soc.) 24 Tellus and Ymo be dullid of theire chere. 1602Shakes. Ham. iii. ii. 166 Neptunes salt Wash and Tellus Orbed ground. 1608― Per. iv. i. 14, I will rob Tellus of her weede. 1681Cotton Wond. Peake (ed. 4) 28 The Spring swell'd by some smoaking Shower, That teeming Clouds on Tellus surface poure. 1738Gentl. Mag. VIII. 544/2 Reason, like Sol to Tellus kind, Ripens the products of the mind. 1818Keats Endymion iii. 71 Tellus feels her forehead's cumbrous load. |