Word Meanings - SLICKENS - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The pulverized matter from a quartz mill, or the lighter soil of hydraulic mines.

Related words: (words related to SLICKENS)

• HYDRAULICON
  An ancient musical instrument played by the action of water; a water organ.
• QUARTZITE
  Massive quartz occurring as a rock; a metamorphosed sandstone; -- called also quartz rock.
• HYDRAULICS
  That branch of science, or of engineering, which treats of fluids in motion, especially of water, its action in rivers and canals, the works and machinery for conducting or raising it, its use as a prime mover, and the like. Note: As a science,
• PULVERIZATION
  The action of reducing to dust or powder.
• LIGHTERAGE
  1. The price paid for conveyance of goods on a lighter. 2. The act of unloading into a lighter, or of conveying by a lighter.
• QUARTZOID
  A form of crystal common with quartz, consisting of two six- sided pyramids, base to base.
• QUARTZOUS
  Quarzose.
• PULVERIZER
  One who, or that which, pulverizes.
• HYDRAULIC
  Of or pertaining to hydraulics, or to fluids in motion; conveying, or acting by, water; as, an hydraulic clock, crane, or dock. Hydraulic accumulator, an accumulator for hydraulic machinery of any kind. See Accumulator, 2. -- Hydraulic brake, a
• MATTERLESS
  1. Not being, or having, matter; as, matterless spirits. Davies 2. Unimportant; immaterial.
• PULVERIZABLE
  Admitting of being pulverized; pulverable. Barton.
• MATTER-OF-FACT
  Adhering to facts; not turning aside from absolute realities; not fanciful or imaginative; commonplace; dry.
• QUARTZIFEROUS
  Consisting chiefly of quartz; containing quartz.
• MATTERY
  1. Generating or containing pus; purulent. 2. Full of substance or matter; important. B. Jonson.
• QUARTZOSE
  Containing, or resembling, quartz; partaking of the nature or qualities of quartz.
• QUARTZ
  A form of silica, or silicon dioxide , occurring in hexagonal crystals, which are commonly colorless and transparent, but sometimes also yellow, brown, purple, green, and of other colors; also in cryptocrystalline massive forms varying in color
• HYDRAULICAL
  Hydraulic.
• LIGHTERMAN
  A person employed on, or who manages, a lighter.
• LIGHTER
  One who, or that which, lights; as, a lighter of lamps.
• QUARTZY
  Quartzose.
• DREAMINESS
  The state of being dreamy.
• SLIMINESS
  The quality or state of being slimy.
• LAMPLIGHTER
  The calico bass. (more info) 1. One who, or that which, lights a lamp; esp., a person who lights street lamps.
• FLIGHTER
  A horizontal vane revolving over the surface of wort in a cooler, to produce a circular current in the liquor. Knight.
• STERHYDRAULIC
  Pertaining to, or designating, a kind of hydraulic press; resembling such a press in action or principle. Sterhydraulic press, an hydraulic press producing pressure or motion by the introduction of a solid substance into a cylinder previously filled
• GEMMINESS
  The state or quality of being gemmy; spruceness; smartness.
• FILMINESS
  State of being filmy.
• ERMINES; ERMINOIS
  See 4
• CREAMINESS
  The quality of being creamy.
• CLAMMINESS
  State of being clammy or viscous.
• BEAMINESS
  The state of being beamy.
• SMATTERER
  One who has only a slight, superficial knowledge; a sciolist.