Word Meanings - MAMMALIFEROUS - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Containing mammalian remains; -- said of certain strata.

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• STRATARITHMETRY
  The art of drawing up an army, or any given number of men, in any geometrical figure, or of estimating or expressing the number of men in such a figure.
• CONTAINMENT
  That which is contained; the extent; the substance. The containment of a rich man's estate. Fuller.
• MAMMALIAN
  Of or pertaining to the Mammalia or mammals.
• CERTAINTY
  Clearness; freedom from ambiguity; lucidity. Of a certainty, certainly. (more info) 1. The quality, state, or condition, of being certain. The certainty of punishment is the truest security against crimes. Fisher Ames. 2. A fact or truth
• CONTAINANT
  A container.
• CERTAINNESS
  Certainty.
• STRATAGEM
  An artifice or trick in war for deceiving the enemy; hence, in general, artifice; deceptive device; secret plot; evil machination. Fit for treasons, stratagems, and spoils. Shak. Those oft are stratagems which error seem, Nor is it Homer nods, but
• CONTAINABLE
  Capable of being contained or comprised. Boyle.
• CERTAIN
  1. Certainty. Gower. 2. A certain number or quantity. Chaucer.
• CONTAINER
  One who, or that which, contains.
• STRATA
  pl. of Stratum.
• STRATAGEMICAL
  Containing stratagem; as, a stratagemical epistle. Swift.
• CERTAINLY
  Without doubt or question; unquestionably.
• CONTAIN
  1. To hold within fixed limits; to comprise; to include; to inclose; to hold. Behold, heaven and the heaven of heavens can not contain thee; how much less this house! 2 Chron. vi. 18. When that this body did contain a spirit. Shak. What thy stores
• ASCERTAINMENT
  The act of ascertaining; a reducing to certainty; a finding out by investigation; discovery. The positive ascertainment of its limits. Burke.
• ASCERTAINABLE
  That may be ascertained. -- As`cer*tain"a*ble*ness, n. -- As`cer*tain"a*bly, adv.
• UNCERTAINTY
  1. The quality or state of being uncertain. 2. That which is uncertain; something unknown. Our shepherd's case is every man's case that quits a moral certainty for an uncertainty. L'Estrange.
• SELF-CONTAINED
  Having all the essential working parts connected by a bedplate or framework, or contained in a case, etc., so that mutual relations of the parts do not depend upon fastening outside of the machine itself. Self-contained steam engine.
• UNCERTAINLY
  In an uncertain manner.
• INCERTAIN
  Uncertain; doubtful; unsteady. -- In*cer"tain*ly, adv. Very questionable and of uncertain truth. Sir T. Browne.
• ASCERTAINER
  One who ascertains.
• INCERTAINTY
  Uncertainty. Shak.