Word Meanings - SLICKENSIDES - Book Publishers vocabulary database
1. The smooth, striated, or partially polished surfaces of a fissure or seam, supposed to have been produced by the sliding of one surface on another. 2. A variety of galena found in Derbyshire, England.
Related words: (words related to SLICKENSIDES)
- SMOOTHEN
To make smooth. - STRIATUM
The corpus striatum. - PRODUCIBILITY
The quality or state of being producible. Barrow. - SMOOTHNESS
Quality or state of being smooth. - FISSURE
A narrow opening, made by the parting of any substance; a cleft; as, the fissure of a rock. Cerebral fissures , the furrows or clefts by which the surface of the cerebrum is divided; esp., the furrows first formed by the infolding of the whole - FOUNDATION
The lowest and supporting part or member of a wall, including the base course , under Base, n.) and footing courses; in a frame house, the whole substructure of masonry. 4. A donation or legacy appropriated to support a charitable institution, - ANOTHER-GUESS
Of another sort. It used to go in another-guess manner. Arbuthnot. - FOUNDER
One who founds, establishes, and erects; one who lays a foundation; an author; one from whom anything originates; one who endows. - SURFACE LOADING
The weight supported per square unit of surface; the quotient obtained by dividing the gross weight, in pounds, of a fully loaded flying machine, by the total area, in square feet, of its supporting surface. - POLISHMENT
The act of polishing, or the state of being polished. - STRIATION
1. The quality or condition of being striated. 2. A stria; as, the striations on a shell. - PRODUCEMENT
Production. - VARIETY SHOW
A stage entertainment of successive separate performances, usually songs, dances, acrobatic feats, dramatic sketches, exhibitions of trained animals, or any specialties. Often loosely called vaudeville show. - FOUNDATIONER
One who derives support from the funds or foundation of a college or school. - SMOOTH-CHINNED
Having a smooth chin; beardless. Drayton. - FOUND
imp. & p. p. of Find. - FOUNDEROUS
Difficult to travel; likely to trip one up; as, a founderous road. Burke. - SMOOTHLY
In a smooth manner. - POLISHED
Made smooth and glossy, as by friction; hence, highly finished; refined; polite; as, polished plate; polished manners; polished verse. - STRIATE; STRIATED
Marked with striaƦ, or fine grooves, or lines of color; showing narrow structural bands or lines; as, a striated crystal; striated muscular fiber. - CONFOUNDED
1. Confused; perplexed. A cloudy and confounded philosopher. Cudworth. 2. Excessive; extreme; abominable. He was a most confounded tory. Swift. The tongue of that confounded woman. Sir. W. Scott. - REPOLISH
To polish again. - BACKSLIDING
Slipping back; falling back into sin or error; sinning. Turn, O backsliding children, saith the Lord. Jer. iii. 14. - OVERPRODUCTION
Excessive production; supply beyond the demand. J. S. Mill.