Word Meanings - ORTHOCERATITE - Book Publishers vocabulary database
An orthoceras; also, any fossil shell allied to Orthoceras.
Related words: (words related to ORTHOCERATITE)
- SHELL-LESS
, a. Having no shell. J. Burroughs. - ALLICIENT
That attracts; attracting. -- n. - ALLINEATION; ALINEEATION
Alignment; position in a straight line, as of two planets with the sun. Whewell. The allineation of the two planets. C. A. Young. - FOSSILIZATION
The process of converting, or of being converted, into a fossil. - ALLITERAL
Pertaining to, or characterized by alliteration. - SHELLER
One who, or that which, shells; as, an oyster sheller; a corn sheller. - ALLITERATOR
One who alliterates. - ALLIED
United; joined; leagued; akin; related. See Ally. - FOSSILIZE
1. To become fossil. 2. To become antiquated, rigid, or fixed, beyond the influence of change or progress. - FOSSIL
Like or pertaining to fossils; contained in rocks. whether petrified or not; as, fossil plants, shells. Fossil copal, a resinous substance, first found in the blue clay at Highgate, near London, and apparently a vegetable resin, partly changed by - ALLICE; ALLIS
The European shad ; allice shad. See Alose. - ALLIGATION
A rule relating to the solution of questions concerning the compounding or mixing of different ingredients, or ingredients of different qualities or values. Note: The rule is named from the method of connecting together the terms by certain - ALLITERATE
To compose alliteratively; also, to constitute alliteration. - ALLIGATE
To tie; to unite by some tie. Instincts alligated to their nature. Sir M. Hale. - FOSSILIST
One who is versed in the science of fossils; a paleontologist. Joseph Black. - FOSSILIZED
Converted into a fossil; antiquated; firmly fixed in views or opinions. A fossilized sample of confused provincialism. Earle. - SHELLAPPLE
See SHELDAFLE - ALLIGNMENT
See ALIGNMENT - SHELLPROOF
Capable of resisting bombs or other shells; bombproof. - ALLIGATOR WRENCH
A kind of pipe wrench having a flaring jaw with teeth on one side. - GALLIASS
See GALLEASS - GOROON SHELL
A large, handsome, marine, univalve shell . - DALLIANCE
1. The act of dallying, trifling, or fondling; interchange of caresses; wanton play. Look thou be true, do not give dalliance Too mnch the rein. Shak. O, the dalliance and the wit, The flattery and the strifeTennyson. 2. Delay or procrastination. - KAKARALLI
A kind of wood common in Demerara, durable in salt water, because not subject to the depredations of the sea worm and barnacle. - SCALLION
A kind of small onion , native of Palestine; the eschalot, or shallot. 2. Any onion which does not "bottom out," but remains with a thick stem like a leek. Amer. Cyc. - CORALLIGENOUS
producing coral; coraligerous; coralliferous. Humble. - VALVE-SHELL
Any fresh-water gastropod of the genus Valvata. - SPOUTSHELL
Any marine gastropod shell of the genus Apporhais having an elongated siphon. See Illust. under Rostrifera. - REALLIANCE
A renewed alliance. - IMPALLID
To make pallid; to blanch. Feltham. - HEMEROCALLIS
A genus of plants, some species of which are cultivated for their beautiful flowers; day lily. - HAEMATOCRYSTALLIN
See HEMATOCRYSTALLIN - CRYSTALLIZATION
The act or process by which a substance in solidifying assumes the form and sructure of a crystal, or becomes crystallized. 2. The body formed by crystallizing; as, silver on precipitation forms arborescent crystallizations. Note: The systems of - MISALLIED
Wrongly allied or associated. - BALLISTER
A crossbow. - UNFALLIBLE
Infallible. Shak. - SLIT-SHELL
Any species of Pleurotomaria, a genus of beautiful, pearly, spiral gastropod shells having a deep slit in the outer lip. Many fossil species are known, and a few living ones are found in deep water in tropical seas.