Word Meanings - KEUPER - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The upper division of the European Triassic. See Chart of Geology.

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• CHARTIST
  A supporter or partisan of chartism.
• CHART
  1. A sheet of paper, pasteboard, or the like, on which information is exhibited, esp. when the information is arranged in tabular form; as, an historical chart. 2. A map; esp., a hydrographic or marine map; a map on which is projected a portion
• UPPERMOST
  Highest in place, position, rank, power, or the like; upmost; supreme. Whatever faction happens to be uppermost. Swift.
• DIVISIONARY
  Divisional.
• DIVISIONALLY
  So as to be divisional.
• CHARTA
  Material on which instruments, books, etc., are written; parchment or paper. A charter or deed; a writing by which a grant is made. See Magna Charta.
• UPPERTENDOM
  The highest class in society; the upper ten. See Upper ten, under Upper.
• CHARTULARY
  See CARTULARY
• CHARTOGRAPHER; CHARTOGRAPHIC; CHARTOGRAPHY
  See ETC (more info) etc.
• TRIASSIC
  Of the age of, or pertaining to, the Trias. -- n.
• CHARTREUSE
  1. A Carthusian monastery; esp. La Grande Chartreuse, mother house of the order, in the mountains near Grenoble, France. 2. An alcoholic cordial, distilled from aromatic herbs; -- made at La Grande Chartreuse.
• CHARTLESS
  1. Without a chart; having no guide. 2. Not mapped; uncharted; vague. Barlow.
• DIVISIONAL
  That divides; pas, a divisional line; a divisional general; a divisional surgeon of police. Divisional planes , planes of separation between rock masses. They include joints.
• CHARTREUX
  A Carthusian.
• CHARTOMANCY
  Divination by written paper or by cards.
• CHARTER
  1. To establish by charter. 2. To hire or let by charter, as a ship. See Charter party, under Charter, n.
• CHARTACEOUS
  Resembling paper or parchment; of paper-like texture; papery.
• GEOLOGY
  1. The science which treats: Of the structure and mineral constitution of the globe; structural geology. Of its history as regards rocks, minerals, rivers, valleys, mountains, climates, life, etc.; historical geology. Of the causes
• CHARTOMETER
  An instrument for measuring charts or maps.
• UPPER
  Being further up, literally or figuratively; higher in place, position, rank, dignity, or the like; superior; as, the upper lip; the upper side of a thing; the upper house of a legislature. The upper hand, the superiority; the advantage. See To
• MISDIVISION
  Wrong division.
• MICRO-GEOLOGY
  The part of geology relating to structure and organisms which require to be studied with a microscope.
• SUPPER
  A meal taken at the close of the day; the evening meal. Note: Supper is much used in an obvious sense, either adjectively or as the first part of a compound; as, supper time or supper-time, supper bell, supper hour, etc. (more info) originally
• CRUPPER
  1. The buttocks or rump of a horse. 2. A leather loop, passing under a horse's tail, and buckled to the saddle to keep it from slipping forwards.