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An immense field or stream of ice, formed in the region of perpetual snow, and moving slowly down a mountain slope or valley, as in the Alps, or over an extended area, as in Greenland. Note: The mass of compacted snow forming the upper part of a

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An immense field or stream of ice, formed in the region of perpetual snow, and moving slowly down a mountain slope or valley, as in the Alps, or over an extended area, as in Greenland. Note: The mass of compacted snow forming the upper part of a glacier is called the firn, or névé; the glacier proper consist of solid ice, deeply crevassed where broken up by irregularities in the slope or direction of its path. A glacier usually carries with it accumulations of stones and dirt called moraines, which are designated, according to their position, as lateral, medial, or terminal . The common rate of flow of the Alpine glaciers is from ten to twenty inches per day in summer, and about half that in winter. Glacier theory , the theory that large parts of the frigid and temperate zones were covered with ice during the glacial, or ice, period, and that, by the agency of this ice, the loose materials on the earth's surface, called drift or diluvium, were transported and accumulated.

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  • FORMALITY
    The dress prescribed for any body of men, academical, municipal, or sacerdotal. The doctors attending her in their formalities as far as Shotover. Fuller. 6. That which is formal; the formal part. It unties the inward knot of marriage, . . . while
  • GREENLANDER
    A native of Greenland.
  • FIELD
    The whole surface of an escutcheon; also, so much of it is shown unconcealed by the different bearings upon it. See Illust. of Fess, where the field is represented as gules , while the fess is argent . 6. An unresticted or favorable opportunity
  • MOUNTAINOUS
    1. Full of, or containing, mountains; as, the mountainous country of the Swiss. 2. Inhabiting mountains. Bacon. 3. Large as, or resembling, a mountain; huge; of great bulk; as, a mountainous heap. Prior.
  • MOUNTAINOUSNESS
    The state or quality of being mountainous.
  • MOVER
    1. A person or thing that moves, stirs, or changes place. 2. A person or thing that imparts motion, or causes change of place; a motor. 3. One who, or that which, excites, instigates, or causes movement, change, etc.; as, movers of sedition. These
  • FIELDING
    The act of playing as a fielder.
  • MOVELESS
    Motionless; fixed. "Moveless as a tower." Pope.
  • VALLEY
    1. The space inclosed between ranges of hills or mountains; the strip of land at the bottom of the depressions intersecting a country, including usually the bed of a stream, with frequently broad alluvial plains on one or both sides of the stream.
  • FORMICARY
    The nest or dwelling of a swarm of ants; an ant-hill.
  • FORMULIZE
    To reduce to a formula; to formulate. Emerson.
  • IMMENSENESS
    The state of being immense.
  • UPPERMOST
    Highest in place, position, rank, power, or the like; upmost; supreme. Whatever faction happens to be uppermost. Swift.
  • FORMERLY
    In time past, either in time immediately preceding or at any indefinite distance; of old; heretofore.
  • MOVABLE
    1. Capable of being moved, lifted, carried, drawn, turned, or conveyed, or in any way made to change place or posture; susceptible of motion; not fixed or stationary; as, a movable steam engine. 2. Changing from one time to another; as, movable
  • COMPACT
    1. Joined or held together; leagued; confederated. "Compact with her that's gone." Shak. A pipe of seven reeds, compact with wax together. Peacham. 2. Composed or made; -- with of. A wandering fire, Compact of unctuous vapor. Milton. 3. Closely
  • COMPACTIBLE
    That may be compacted.
  • FORMICAROID
    Like or pertaining to the family Formicaridæ or ant thrushes.
  • FIELDY
    Open, like a field. Wyclif.
  • FORMIDABLY
    In a formidable manner.
  • FALCIFORM
    Having the shape of a scithe or sickle; resembling a reaping hook; as, the falciform ligatment of the liver.
  • INFORMITY
    Want of regular form; shapelessness.
  • OMNIFORMITY
    The condition or quality of having every form. Dr. H. More.
  • DEFORMER
    One who deforms.
  • DIVERSIFORM
    Of a different form; of varied forms.
  • PREFORM
    To form beforehand, or for special ends. "Their natures and preformed faculties. " Shak.
  • VARIFORM
    Having different shapes or forms.
  • RESINIFORM
    Having the form of resin.
  • BIFORM
    Having two forms, bodies, or shapes. Croxall.
  • VILLIFORM
    Having the form or appearance of villi; like close-set fibers, either hard or soft; as, the teeth of perch are villiform.
  • HOMEFIELD
    Afield adjacent to its owner's home. Hawthorne.
  • REFORMALIZE
    To affect reformation; to pretend to correctness.
  • FULL-FORMED
    Full in form or shape; rounded out with flesh. The full-formed maids of Afric. Thomson.
  • SCORIFORM
    In the form of scoria.
  • PENNIFORM
    Having the form of a feather or plume.
  • MALCONFORMATION
    Imperfect, disproportionate, or abnormal formation; ill form; disproportion of parts.

 

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