Word Meanings - LATERITE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

An argillaceous sandstone, of a red color, and much seamed; -- found in India.

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• SEAMARK
  Any elevated object on land which serves as a guide to mariners; a beacon; a landmark visible from the sea, as a hill, a tree, a steeple, or the like. Shak.
• COLORMAN
  A vender of paints, etc. Simmonds.
• INDIANEER
  An Indiaman.
• SEAMING
  The cord or rope at the margin of a seine, to which the meshes of the net are attached. Seaming machine, a machine for uniting the edges of sheet-metal plates by bending them and pinching them together. (more info) 1. The act or process of forming
• 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.
• SEAMAN
  A merman; the male of the mermaid. "Not to mention mermaids or seamen." Locke.
• COLORATE
  Colored. Ray.
• COLORIMETRY
  The quantitative determination of the depth of color of a substance. 2. A method of quantitative chemical analysis based upon the comparison of the depth of color of a solution with that of a standard liquid.
• INDIA RUBBER
  . See Caoutchouc.
• FOUND
  imp. & p. p. of Find.
• FOUNDATIONER
  One who derives support from the funds or foundation of a college or school.
• FOUNDEROUS
  Difficult to travel; likely to trip one up; as, a founderous road. Burke.
• COLORADO BEETLE
  A yellowish beetle , with ten longitudinal, black, dorsal stripes. It has migrated eastwards from its original habitat in Colorado, and is very destructive to the potato plant; -- called also potato beetle and potato bug. See Potato beetle.
• SANDSTONE
  A rock made of sand more or less firmly united. Common or siliceous sandstone consists mainly of quartz sand. Note: Different names are aplied to the various kinds of sandstone according to their composition; as, granitic, argillaceous, micaceous,
• COLORADOITE
  Mercury telluride, an iron-black metallic mineral, found in Colorado.
• FOUNDRESS
  A female founder; a woman who founds or establishes, or who endows with a fund.
• FOUNDERY
  See FOUNDRY
• SEAMSTRESS
  A woman whose occupation is sewing; a needlewoman.
• INDIAMAN
  A large vessel in the India trade. Macaulay.
• 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.
• CONCOLOR
  Of the same color; of uniform color. "Concolor animals." Sir T. Browne.
• EAST INDIAN
  Belonging to, or relating to, the East Indies. -- n.
• MONK'S SEAM
  An extra middle seam made at the junction of two breadths of canvas, ordinarily joined by only two rows of stitches.
• ISABELLA; ISABELLA COLOR
  A brownish yellow color. (more info) Spanish princess Isabella, daughter of king Philip II., in allusion to the color assumed by her shift, which she wore without change from
• TRICOLOR
  1. The national French banner, of three colors, blue, white, and red, adopted at the first revolution. 2. Hence, any three-colored flag.
• LINDIA
  A peculiar genus of rotifers, remarkable for the absence of ciliated disks. By some zoölogists it is thought to be like the ancestral form of the Arthropoda.
• WATER-COLORIST
  One who paints in water colors.