Obs. or dial. ff. EARTH sb.1, etc.
1542. Udall, Erasm. Apoph., 49. An yearthen potte.
1561. Plowman’s T., in Chaucer’s Wks., 95 b/2. That taketh maistrie in his name Ghostly, and for yearthly good.
1581. Lodge, Repl. Gosson’s Sch. Abuse (Shaks. Soc.), 6. To make a yearthly creature to beare the person of the Creator.
1582. Hester, Secr. Phiorav., III. i. 2,. Drie the Vitrioll in a yearthen pan.
1688. Holme, Armoury, III. 261/2. Yearthing, put Earth about [the kiln].
1828. Craven Gloss., Yearthen, earthen.
