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Producing or containing carbon or coal. Carboniferous age , the age immediately following the Devonian, or Age of fishes, and characterized by the vegatation which formed the coal beds. This age embraces three periods, the Subcarboniferous, the

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Producing or containing carbon or coal. Carboniferous age , the age immediately following the Devonian, or Age of fishes, and characterized by the vegatation which formed the coal beds. This age embraces three periods, the Subcarboniferous, the Carboniferous, and Permian. See Age of acrogens, under Acrogen. -- Carboniferous formation , the series of rocks (including sandstones, shales, limestones, and conglomerates, with beds of coal) which make up the strata of the Carboniferous age or period. See the Diagram under Geology.

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• FORMALITY
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  Steel deriving its qualities from carbon chiefly, without the presence of other alloying elements; --opposed to alloy steel.
• THREE-SQUARE
  Having a cross section in the form of an equilateral triangle; -- said especially of a kind of file.
• CARBONATATION
  The saturation of defecated beet juice with carbonic acid gas. Knight.
• PRODUCIBILITY
  The quality or state of being producible. Barrow.
• CARBONIDE
  A carbide.
• FORMICARY
  The nest or dwelling of a swarm of ants; an ant-hill.
• FORMULIZE
  To reduce to a formula; to formulate. Emerson.
• THREE-MILE
  Of or pertaining to three miles; as, the three-mile limit, or the limit of the marine belt of three miles included in territorial waters of a state.
• THREE-PILE
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• FOLLOWING EDGE
  See ABOVE
• SUBCARBONIFEROUS
  Of or pertaining to the lowest division of the Carboniferous formations underlying the proper coal measures. It was a marine formation characterized in general by beds of limestone. -- n.
• 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
• FORMERLY
  In time past, either in time immediately preceding or at any indefinite distance; of old; heretofore.
• THREE-DECKER
  A vessel of war carrying guns on three decks.
• CONTAINMENT
  That which is contained; the extent; the substance. The containment of a rich man's estate. Fuller.
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• THREE-SIDED
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• THREE-CORNERED
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  Want of regular form; shapelessness.
• OMNIFORMITY
  The condition or quality of having every form. Dr. H. More.
• FALCIFORM
  Having the shape of a scithe or sickle; resembling a reaping hook; as, the falciform ligatment of the liver.
• DEFORMER
  One who deforms.
• DIVERSIFORM
  Of a different form; of varied forms.
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  Having the form of resin.
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  Forming again; having the quality of renewing form; reformatory. Good.