Word Meanings - COPROLITE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A piece of petrified dung; a fossil excrement.

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• FOSSILIZATION
  The process of converting, or of being converted, into a fossil.
• PETRIFICATION
  1. See Petrifaction. 2. Fig.: Obduracy; callousness. Hallywell.
• PIECER
  1. One who pieces; a patcher. 2. A child employed in spinning mill to tie together broken threads.
• EXCREMENTIVE
  Serving to excrete; connected with excretion or excrement. "The excrementive parts." Felthman.
• FOSSIL
  Like or pertaining to fossils; contained in rocks. whether petrified or not; as, fossil plants, shells. Fossil copal, a resinous substance, first found in the blue clay at Highgate, near London, and apparently a vegetable resin, partly changed by
• PIECEMEALED
  Divided into pieces.
• FOSSILIST
  One who is versed in the science of fossils; a paleontologist. Joseph Black.
• FOSSILIZED
  Converted into a fossil; antiquated; firmly fixed in views or opinions. A fossilized sample of confused provincialism. Earle.
• PIECEMEAL
  1. In pieces; in parts or fragments. "On which it piecemeal brake." Chapman. The beasts will tear thee piecemeal. Tennyson. 2. Piece by piece; by little and little in succession. Piecemeal they win, this acre first, than that. Pope.
• PIECELESS
  Not made of pieces; whole; entire.
• PETRIFIC
  Petrifying; petrifactive. Death with his mace petrific, cold and dry. Milton.
• EXCREMENTITIAL; EXCREMENTITIOUS
  Pertaining to, or consisting of, excrement; of the nature of excrement.
• PIECELY
  In pieces; piecemeal.
• EXCREMENTIZE
  To void excrement. Life of A. Wood
• PETRIFICATE
  To petrify. Our hearts petrificated were. J. Hall .
• FOSSILIZE
  1. To convert into a fossil; to petrify; as, to fossilize bones or wood. 2. To cause to become antiquated, rigid, or fixed, as by fossilization; to mummify; to deaden. Ten layers of birthdays on a woman's head Are apt to fossilize her
• EXCREMENT
  Matter excreted and ejected; that which is excreted or cast out of the animal body by any of the natural emunctories; especially, alvine, discharges; dung; ordure.
• FOSSILISM
  1. The science or state of fossils. Coleridge. 2. The state of being extremely antiquated in views and opinions.
• PIECENER
  1. One who supplies rolls of wool to the slubbing machine in woolen mills. 2. Same as Piecer, 2.
• FOSSILIFEROUS
  Containing or composed of fossils.
• SPARPIECE
  The collar beam of a roof; the spanpiece. Gwilt.
• CORK FOSSIL
  A variety of amianthus which is very light, like cork.
• DRIFTPIECE
  An upright or curved piece of timber connecting the plank sheer with the gunwale; also, a scroll terminating a rail.
• CODPIECE
  A part of male dress in front of the breeches, formerly made very conspicuous. Shak. Fosbroke.
• AFTERPIECE
  The heel of a rudder. (more info) 1. A piece performed after a play, usually a farce or other small entertainment.
• FIELDPIECE
  A cannon mounted on wheels, for the use of a marching army; a piece of field artillery; -- called also field gun.
• BACKPIECE; BACKPLATE
  A piece, or plate which forms the back of anything, or which covers the back; armor for the back.
• TIMEPIECE
  A clock, watch, or other instrument, to measure or show the progress of time; a chronometer.
• CHIMNEY-PIECE
  A decorative construction around the opning of a fireplace.
• SEAPIECE
  A picture representing a scene at sea; a marine picture. Addison.
• SIDEPIECE
  The jamb, or cheek, of an opening in a wall, as of door or window.