Word Meanings - LATERITE - Book Publishers vocabulary database
An argillaceous sandstone, of a red color, and much seamed; -- found in India.
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- INDIANEER
An Indiaman. - SEAMARK
Any elevated object on land which serves as a guide to mariners; a beacon; a landmark visible from the sea, as a hill, a tree, a steeple, or the like. Shak. - COLORMAN
A vender of paints, etc. Simmonds. - SEAMING
The cord or rope at the margin of a seine, to which the meshes of the net are attached. Seaming machine, a machine for uniting the edges of sheet-metal plates by bending them and pinching them together. (more info) 1. The act or process of forming - 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, - FOUNDER
One who founds, establishes, and erects; one who lays a foundation; an author; one from whom anything originates; one who endows. - SEAMAN
A merman; the male of the mermaid. "Not to mention mermaids or seamen." Locke. - COLORATE
Colored. Ray. - COLORIMETRY
The quantitative determination of the depth of color of a substance. 2. A method of quantitative chemical analysis based upon the comparison of the depth of color of a solution with that of a standard liquid. - INDIA RUBBER
. See Caoutchouc. - FOUNDATIONER
One who derives support from the funds or foundation of a college or school. - FOUND
imp. & p. p. of Find. - FOUNDEROUS
Difficult to travel; likely to trip one up; as, a founderous road. Burke. - COLORADO BEETLE
A yellowish beetle , with ten longitudinal, black, dorsal stripes. It has migrated eastwards from its original habitat in Colorado, and is very destructive to the potato plant; -- called also potato beetle and potato bug. See Potato beetle. - SANDSTONE
A rock made of sand more or less firmly united. Common or siliceous sandstone consists mainly of quartz sand. Note: Different names are aplied to the various kinds of sandstone according to their composition; as, granitic, argillaceous, micaceous, - COLORADOITE
Mercury telluride, an iron-black metallic mineral, found in Colorado. - FOUNDRESS
A female founder; a woman who founds or establishes, or who endows with a fund. - FOUNDERY
See FOUNDRY - SEAMSTRESS
A woman whose occupation is sewing; a needlewoman. - INDIAMAN
A large vessel in the India trade. Macaulay. - 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. - CONCOLOR
Of the same color; of uniform color. "Concolor animals." Sir T. Browne. - EAST INDIAN
Belonging to, or relating to, the East Indies. -- n. - MONK'S SEAM
An extra middle seam made at the junction of two breadths of canvas, ordinarily joined by only two rows of stitches. - ISABELLA; ISABELLA COLOR
A brownish yellow color. (more info) Spanish princess Isabella, daughter of king Philip II., in allusion to the color assumed by her shift, which she wore without change from - TRICOLOR
1. The national French banner, of three colors, blue, white, and red, adopted at the first revolution. 2. Hence, any three-colored flag. - LINDIA
A peculiar genus of rotifers, remarkable for the absence of ciliated disks. By some zoölogists it is thought to be like the ancestral form of the Arthropoda. - WATER-COLORIST
One who paints in water colors.