Word Meanings - ORTHOCERATITE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

An orthoceras; also, any fossil shell allied to Orthoceras.

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• 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
• BALLISTER
  A crossbow.
• MISALLIED
  Wrongly allied or associated.
• 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.