Word Meanings - GOSSAN - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Decomposed rock, usually reddish or ferruginous (owing to oxidized pyrites), forming the upper part of a metallic vein.

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• OWNER
  One who owns; a rightful proprietor; one who has the legal or rightful title, whether he is the possessor or not. Shak.
• 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
• METALLIC
  Of, pertaining to, or characterized by, the essential and implied properties of a metal, as contrasted with a nonmetal or metalloid; basic; antacid; positive. Metallic iron, iron in the state of the metal, as distinquished from its ores, as magnetic
• FORMICARY
  The nest or dwelling of a swarm of ants; an ant-hill.
• FORMULIZE
  To reduce to a formula; to formulate. Emerson.
• 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.
• DECOMPOSITE
  Anything decompounded. Decomposites of three metals or more. Bacon.
• FORMICAROID
  Like or pertaining to the family Formicaridæ or ant thrushes.
• FORME
  First. "Adam our forme father." Chaucer.
• FORMIDABLY
  In a formidable manner.
• REDDISH
  Somewhat red; moderately red. -- Red"dish*ness, n.
• FORMICATE
  Resembling, or pertaining to, an ant or ants.
• DECOMPOSITION
  1. The act or process of resolving the constituent parts of a compound body or substance into its elementary parts; separation into constituent part; analysis; the decay or dissolution consequent on the removal or alteration of some of
• OWLET
  A small owl; especially, the European species , and the California flammulated owlet . Owlet moth , any noctuid moth.
• FORMEDON
  A writ of right for a tenant in tail in case of a discontinuance of the estate tail. This writ has been abolished.
• FORMAT
  The shape and size of a book; hence, its external form. The older manuscripts had been written in a much larger format than that found convenient for university work. G. H. Putnam. One might, indeed, protest that the format is a little
• UPPERTENDOM
  The highest class in society; the upper ten. See Upper ten, under Upper.
• OXIDIZABLE
  Capable of being oxidized.
• FORMYL
  A univalent radical, H.C:O, regarded as the essential residue of formic acid and aldehyde. Formerly, the radical methyl, CH3.
• INOXIDIZE
  To prevent or hinder oxidation, rust, or decay; as, inoxidizing oils or varnishes.
• HOLLOW-HEARTED
  Insincere; deceitful; not sound and true; having a cavity or decayed spot within. Syn. -- Faithless; dishonest; false; treacherous.
• FORESHADOW
  To shadow or typi Dryden.
• DOWNWEED
  Cudweed, a species of Gnaphalium.
• INFORMITY
  Want of regular form; shapelessness.
• OVERFLOWINGLY
  In great abundance; exuberantly. Boyle.
• FALCIFORM
  Having the shape of a scithe or sickle; resembling a reaping hook; as, the falciform ligatment of the liver.
• OMNIFORMITY
  The condition or quality of having every form. Dr. H. More.
• WILLOWER
  A willow. See Willow, n., 2.
• DEFORMER
  One who deforms.
• WINDFLOWER
  The anemone; -- so called because formerly supposed to open only when the wind was blowing. See Anemone.
• INDECOMPOSABLENESS
  Incapableness of decomposition; stability; permanence; durability.
• CROWN SIDE
  See OFFICE
• DOWNPOUR
  A pouring or streaming downwards; esp., a heavy or continuous shower.
• DIVERSIFORM
  Of a different form; of varied forms.
• CALLOW
  1. Destitute of feathers; naked; unfledged. An in the leafy summit, spied a nest, Which, o'er the callow young, a sparrow pressed. Dryden. 2. Immature; boyish; "green"; as, a callow youth. I perceive by this, thou art but a callow maid. Old Play .
• HALLOW
  To make holy; to set apart for holy or religious use; to consecrate; to treat or keep as sacred; to reverence. "Hallowed be thy name." Matt. vi. 9. Hallow the Sabbath day, to do no work therein. Jer. xvii. 24. His secret altar touched with hallowed
• ROWDY
  One who engages in rows, or noisy quarrels; a ruffianly fellow. M. Arnold.