Word Meanings - SLICKENSIDES - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. The smooth, striated, or partially polished surfaces of a fissure or seam, supposed to have been produced by the sliding of one surface on another. 2. A variety of galena found in Derbyshire, England.

Related words: (words related to SLICKENSIDES)

• SMOOTHEN
  To make smooth.
• STRIATUM
  The corpus striatum.
• PRODUCIBILITY
  The quality or state of being producible. Barrow.
• SMOOTHNESS
  Quality or state of being smooth.
• FISSURE
  A narrow opening, made by the parting of any substance; a cleft; as, the fissure of a rock. Cerebral fissures , the furrows or clefts by which the surface of the cerebrum is divided; esp., the furrows first formed by the infolding of the whole
• 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,
• ANOTHER-GUESS
  Of another sort. It used to go in another-guess manner. Arbuthnot.
• FOUNDER
  One who founds, establishes, and erects; one who lays a foundation; an author; one from whom anything originates; one who endows.
• SURFACE LOADING
  The weight supported per square unit of surface; the quotient obtained by dividing the gross weight, in pounds, of a fully loaded flying machine, by the total area, in square feet, of its supporting surface.
• POLISHMENT
  The act of polishing, or the state of being polished.
• STRIATION
  1. The quality or condition of being striated. 2. A stria; as, the striations on a shell.
• PRODUCEMENT
  Production.
• VARIETY SHOW
  A stage entertainment of successive separate performances, usually songs, dances, acrobatic feats, dramatic sketches, exhibitions of trained animals, or any specialties. Often loosely called vaudeville show.
• FOUND
  imp. & p. p. of Find.
• SMOOTH-CHINNED
  Having a smooth chin; beardless. Drayton.
• FOUNDATIONER
  One who derives support from the funds or foundation of a college or school.
• FOUNDEROUS
  Difficult to travel; likely to trip one up; as, a founderous road. Burke.
• SMOOTHLY
  In a smooth manner.
• POLISHED
  Made smooth and glossy, as by friction; hence, highly finished; refined; polite; as, polished plate; polished manners; polished verse.
• STRIATE; STRIATED
  Marked with striaæ, or fine grooves, or lines of color; showing narrow structural bands or lines; as, a striated crystal; striated muscular fiber.
• 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.
• BACKSLIDING
  Slipping back; falling back into sin or error; sinning. Turn, O backsliding children, saith the Lord. Jer. iii. 14.
• REPOLISH
  To polish again.
• OVERPRODUCTION
  Excessive production; supply beyond the demand. J. S. Mill.