Word Meanings - PREGLACIAL - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Prior to the glacial or drift period.

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• PERIODIC; PERIODICAL
  Of or pertaining to a period; constituting a complete sentence. Periodic comet , a comet that moves about the sun in an elliptic orbit; a comet that has been seen at two of its approaches to the sun. -- Periodic function , a function whose values
• DRIFTBOLT
  A bolt for driving out other bolts.
• GLACIALIST
  One who attributes the phenomena of the drift, in geology, to glaciers.
• PRIORSHIP
  The state or office of prior; priorate.
• PERIODONTAL
  Surrounding the teeth.
• DRIFTPIECE
  An upright or curved piece of timber connecting the plank sheer with the gunwale; also, a scroll terminating a rail.
• DRIFTPIN
  A smooth drift. See Drift, n., 9.
• DRIFTLESS
  Having no drift or direction; without aim; purposeless.
• PRIORITY
  1. The quality or state of being prior or antecedent in time, or of preceding something else; as, priority of application. 2. Precedence; superior rank. Shak. Priority of debts, a superior claim to payment, or a claim to payment before others.
• DRIFTAGE
  1. Deviation from a ship's course due to leeway. 2. Anything that drifts.
• PERIOD
  One of the great divisions of geological time; as, the Tertiary period; the Glacial period. See the Chart of Geology. 4. The termination or completion of a revolution, cycle, series of events, single event, or act; hence, a limit; a bound; an end;
• DRIFTWEED
  Seaweed drifted to the shore by the wind. Darwin.
• PRIORATE
  The dignity, office, or government, of a prior. T. Warton.
• PERIODICALLY
  In a periodical manner.
• PRIORESS
  A lady superior of a priory of nuns, and next in dignity to an abbess.
• PERIODIDE
  An iodide containing a higher proportion of iodine than any other iodide of the same substance or series.
• DRIFT
  The horizontal thrust or pressure of an arch or vault upon the abutments. Knight. (more info) drift snowdrift, Dan. drift, impulse, drove, herd, pasture, common, 1. A driving; a violent movement. The dragon drew him away with drift
• DRIFTY
  Full of drifts; tending to form drifts, as snow, and the like.
• GLACIAL
  Resembling ice; having the appearance and consistency of ice; - - said of certain solid compounds; as, glacial phosphoric or acetic acids. Glacial acid , an acid of such strength or purity as to crystallize at an ordinary temperature, in an icelike
• DRIFTWAY
  See 11 (more info) 1. A common way, road, or path, for driving cattle. Cowell. Burrill.
• ANTIPERIODIC
  A remedy possessing the property of preventing the return of periodic paroxysms, or exacerbations, of disease, as in intermittent fevers.
• SUBPRIOR
  The vicegerent of a prior; a claustral officer who assists the prior.
• ALABAMA PERIOD
  A period in the American eocene, the lowest in the tertiary age except the lignitic.
• CHAMPLAIN PERIOD
  A subdivision of the Quaternary age immediately following the Glacial period; -- so named from beds near Lake Champlain. Note: The earlier deposits of this period are diluvial in character, as if formed in connection with floods attending
• NIAGARA PERIOD
  A subdivision or the American Upper Silurian system, embracing the Medina, Clinton, and Niagara epoch. The rocks of the Niagara epoch, mostly limestones, are extensively distributed, and at Niagara Falls consist of about eighty feet of
• APRIORISM
  An a priori principle.