earthen/ˈɝθən/earthen means made of earth or mud. Lexicurio rates it Rare gem — a strength score of 79 out of 100.earthen is pronounced /ˈɝθən/.EtymologyFrom Middle English erthen, urthen, from Old English eorþen, yrþen, ierþen (“made of earth”), from Proto-Germanic *irþīnaz. Cognate with Dutch aarden (“earthen”), German irden (“earthen”). By surface analysis, earth + -en (“made of”).adjMade of earth or mud.“1826, James Fenimore Cooper, The Last of the Mohicans A hundred earthen dwellings stood on the margin of the lake […]”Made of clay.“1589, Richard Hakluyt, The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques, and Discoveries of The English Nation ... the Godfathers and Godmothers follow into the midst of the Church, where there is a small table ready set, and on it an earthen pot ful of warme water, […]”Earthly.“Will they be yours when one by one these earthen / Delights and comforts and all beauties wane? / Will they be found laid up above, illumined?”verbto provide or add soil to“Their inter-tillage operations, earthening-up of some crops and tillage in orchard/gardens or plantation crops, are stated below, under special cropping system in different situations.”to make earthly or earthlike“It deadens,—or earthens—the spirit in both directions.”