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Word Meanings - PALEONTOLOGY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The science which treats of the ancient life of the earth, or of fossils which are the remains of such life.

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  • EARTHLY-MINDED
    Having a mind devoted to earthly things; worldly-minded; -- opposed to spiritual-minded. -- Earth"ly-mind`ed*ness, n.
  • EARTH FLAX
    A variety of asbestus. See Amianthus.
  • EARTHDIN
    An earthquake.
  • EARTHSTAR
    A curious fungus of the genus Geaster, in which the outer coating splits into the shape of a star, and the inner one forms a ball containing the dustlike spores.
  • EARTHBRED
    Low; grovelling; vulgar.
  • EARTHBANK
    A bank or mound of earth.
  • WHICHEVER; WHICHSOEVER
    Whether one or another; whether one or the other; which; that one which; as, whichever road you take, it will lead you to town.
  • EARTHQUAVE
    An earthquake.
  • EARTHDRAKE
    A mythical monster of the early Anglo-Saxon literature; a dragon. W. Spalding.
  • EARTHNUT
    A name given to various roots, tubers, or pods grown under or on the ground; as to: The esculent tubers of the umbelliferous plants Bunium flexuosum and Carum Bulbocastanum. The peanut. See Peanut.
  • EARTHEN
    Made of earth; made of burnt or baked clay, or other like substances; as, an earthen vessel or pipe.
  • EARTH SHINE
    See EARTH
  • EARTHMAD
    The earthworm. The earthmads and all the sorts of worms . . . are without eyes. Holland.
  • WHICH
    the root of hwa who + lic body; hence properly, of what sort or kind; akin to OS. hwilik which, OFries. hwelik, D. welk, G. welch, OHG. welih, hwelih, Icel. hvilikr, Dan. & Sw. hvilken, Goth. hwileiks, 1. Of what sort or kind; what; what a; who.
  • EARTHEN-HEARTED
    Hard-hearted; sordid; gross. Lowell.
  • EARTHBOARD
    The part of a plow, or other implement, that turns over the earth; the moldboard.
  • EARTHWORK
    Any construction, whether a temporary breastwork or permanent fortification, for attack or defense, the material of which is chiefly earth. The operation connected with excavations and embankments of earth in preparing foundations of buildings,
  • ANCIENTNESS
    The quality of being ancient; antiquity; existence from old times.
  • ANCIENTLY
    1. In ancient times. 2. In an ancient manner.
  • EARTHLINESS
    The quality or state of being earthly; worldliness; grossness; perishableness.
  • UNEARTHLY
    Not terrestrial; supernatural; preternatural; hence, weird; appalling; terrific; as, an unearthly sight or sound. -- Un*earth"li*ness, n.
  • PRESCIENCE
    Knowledge of events before they take place; foresight. God's certain prescience of the volitions of moral agents. J. Edwards.
  • OMNISCIENCE
    The quality or state of being omniscient; -- an attribute peculiar to God. Dryden.
  • UNSCIENCE
    Want of science or knowledge; ignorance. If that any wight ween a thing to be otherwise than it is, it is not only unscience, but it is deceivable opinion. Chaucer.
  • MIDDLE-EARTH
    The world, considered as lying between heaven and hell. Shak.
  • CONSCIENCE
    consciens, p.pr. of conscire to know, to be conscious; con- + scire 1. Knowledge of one's own thoughts or actions; consciousness. The sweetest cordial we receive, at last, Is conscience of our virtuous actions past. Denham. 2. The faculty, power,
  • YEARTH
    The earth. "Is my son dead or hurt or on the yerthe felled" Ld. Berners.

 

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