Word Meanings - PALEOZOIC - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Of or pertaining to, or designating, the older division of geological time during which life is known to have existed, including the Silurian, Devonian, and Carboniferous ages, and also to the life or rocks of those ages. See Chart of Geology.

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• CHARTIST
  A supporter or partisan of chartism.
• DURAMEN
  The heartwood of an exogenous tree.
• CHART
  1. A sheet of paper, pasteboard, or the like, on which information is exhibited, esp. when the information is arranged in tabular form; as, an historical chart. 2. A map; esp., a hydrographic or marine map; a map on which is projected a portion
• DURIO
  A fruit tree of the Indian Archipelago. It bears the durian.
• EXIST
  exist; ex out + sistere to cause to stand, to set, put, place, stand 1. To be as a fact and not as a mode; to have an actual or real being, whether material or spiritual. Who now, alas! no more is missed Than if he never did exist. Swift.
• DEVONIAN
  Of or pertaining to Devon or Devonshire in England; as, the Devonian rocks, period, or system. Devonian age , the age next older than the Carboniferous and later than the Silurian; -- called also the Age of fishes. The various strata of this age
• DUROUS
  Hard.
• DIVISIONARY
  Divisional.
• EXISTER
  One who exists.
• DURANTE
  During; as, durante vita, during life; durante bene placito, during pleasure.
• DESIGNATE
  Designated; appointed; chosen. Sir G. Buck.
• DIVISIONALLY
  So as to be divisional.
• THOSE
  The plural of that. See That.
• EXISTIBLE
  Capable of existence. Grew.
• DURANCY
  Duration. Dr. H. More.
• CHARTA
  Material on which instruments, books, etc., are written; parchment or paper. A charter or deed; a writing by which a grant is made. See Magna Charta.
• DURRA
  A kind of millet, cultivated throughout Asia, and introduced into the south of Europe; a variety of Sorghum vulgare; -- called
• 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.
• DUR
  Major; in the major mode; as, C dur, that is, C major.
• CHARTULARY
  See CARTULARY
• POSTEXIST
  To exist after; to live subsequently.
• SCOLDER
  1. One who scolds. The oyster catcher; -- so called from its shrill cries. The old squaw.
• MOLDER; MOULDER
  One who, or that which, molds or forms into shape; specifically , one skilled in the art of making molds for castings.
• REVERDURE
  To cover again with verdure. Ld. Berners.
• SPATHOSE
  See SPATHIC
• NONEXISTENCE
  1. Absence of existence; the negation of being; nonentity. A. Baxter. 2. A thing that has no existence. Sir T. Browne.
• COPYHOLDER
  One possessed of land in copyhold. A device for holding copy for a compositor. One who reads copy to a proof reader.
• PODURA
  Any small leaping thysanurous insect of the genus Podura and related genera; a springtail. Podura scale , one of the minute scales with which the body of a podura is covered. They are used as test objects for the microscope. (more info) podo`s,
• HIGH-HOLDER
  The flicker; -- called also high-hole.
• OBDURATION
  A hardening of the heart; hardness of heart.
• BEHOLDER
  One who beholds; a spectator.
• ORDURE
  1. Dung; excrement; fæces. Shak. 2. Defect; imperfection; fault. Holland.
• OFFICEHOLDER
  An officer, particularly one in the civil service; a placeman.
• BORDURE
  A border one fifth the width of the shield, surrounding the field. It is usually plain, but may be charged.