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Word Meanings - HELIOLITE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A fossil coral of the genus Heliolites, having twelve-rayed cells. It is found in the Silurian rocks.

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  • HAVENED
    Sheltered in a haven. Blissful havened both from joy and pain. Keats.
  • CORALLIGENOUS
    producing coral; coraligerous; coralliferous. Humble.
  • CORALLUM
    The coral or skeleton of a zoöphyte, whether calcareous of horny, simple or compound. See Coral.
  • CORAL-RAG
    See CORALLIAN
  • HAVENER
    A harbor master.
  • TWELVEPENNY
    , Sold for a shilling; worth or costing a shilling.
  • FOUNDATION
    The lowest and supporting part or member of a wall, including the base course , under Base, n.) and footing courses; in a frame house, the whole substructure of masonry. 4. A donation or legacy appropriated to support a charitable institution,
  • FOUNDER
    One who founds, establishes, and erects; one who lays a foundation; an author; one from whom anything originates; one who endows.
  • FOSSILIZATION
    The process of converting, or of being converted, into a fossil.
  • TWELVEMO
    See DUODECIMO
  • RAYLESS
    Destitute of rays; hence, dark; not illuminated; blind; as, a rayless sky; rayless eyes.
  • CORALLIAN
    A deposit of coralliferous limestone forming a portion of the middle division of the oölite; -- called also coral-rag.
  • HAVELOCK
    A light cloth covering for the head and neck, used by soldiers as a protection from sunstroke.
  • RAYONNANT
    Darting forth rays, as the sun when it shines out.
  • TWELVE
    One more that eleven; two and ten; twice six; a dozen. Twelve- men's morris. See the Note under Morris. -- Twelve Tables. See under Table. (more info) twelf, twelef, twilif, OS. twelif, D. twaalf, G. zwölf, OHG. zwelif, Icel. t, Sw. tolf, Dan.
  • FOUND
    imp. & p. p. of Find.
  • FOUNDATIONER
    One who derives support from the funds or foundation of a college or school.
  • CORALLIGENA
    See ANTHOZOA
  • HAVE
    haven, habben, AS. habben ; akin to OS. hebbian, D. hebben, OFries, hebba, OHG. hab, G. haben, Icel. hafa, Sw. hafva, Dan. have, Goth. haban, and prob. to L. habere, whence F. 1. To hold in possession or control; to own; as, he has a farm. 2.
  • FOUNDEROUS
    Difficult to travel; likely to trip one up; as, a founderous road. Burke.
  • TRAY-TRIP
    An old game played with dice. Shak.
  • CONFOUNDED
    1. Confused; perplexed. A cloudy and confounded philosopher. Cudworth. 2. Excessive; extreme; abominable. He was a most confounded tory. Swift. The tongue of that confounded woman. Sir. W. Scott.
  • CRAY; CRAYER
    See CRARE
  • TRAY
    To betray; to deceive. Chaucer.
  • STING RAY; STINGRAY
    Any one of numerous rays of the family Dasyatidæ, syn. Trygonidæ, having one or more large sharp barbed dorsal spines, on the whiplike tail, capable of inflicting severe wounds. Some species reach a large size, and some, esp., on the American
  • BETA RAYS
    Penetrating rays readily deflected by a magnetic or electric field, emitted by radioactive substances, as radium. They consist of negatively charged particles or electrons, apparently the same in kind as those of the cathode rays, but having much
  • GRAYWACKE
    A conglomerate or grit rock, consisting of rounded pebbles sand firmly united together. Note: This term, derved from the grauwacke of German miners, was formerly applied in geology to different grits and slates of the Silurian series; but it is
  • FRAY
    Affray; broil; contest; combat. Who began this bloody fray Shak.
  • CORK FOSSIL
    A variety of amianthus which is very light, like cork.
  • TETRACORALLA
    See RUGOSA

 

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