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Capstone

A fossil echinus of the genus Cannulus; -- so called from its supposed resemblance to a cap.

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Stone 76% connected

Concreted earthy or mineral matter; also, any particular mass of such matter; as, a house built of stone; the boy threw a stone; pebbles are rounded…

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Touch 76% connected

To come in contact with; to hit or strike lightly against; to extend the hand, foot, or the like, so as to reach or rest on.

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Wall 70% connected

A kind of knot often used at the end of a rope; a wall knot; a wale.

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Copestone 92% connected

A stone for coping. See Coping.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Stretcher 92% connected

One who, or that which, stretches.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Anchor noun · 78% connection

Carved work, somewhat resembling an anchor or arrowhead; -- a part of the ornaments of certain moldings. It is seen in the echinus, or…

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Asterolepis noun · 78% connection

A genus of fishes, some of which were eighteen or twenty feet long, found in a fossil state in the Old Red Sandstone.

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Atmosphere noun · 78% connection

A supposed medium around various bodies; as, electrical atmosphere, a medium formerly supposed to surround electrical bodies.

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Avicula noun · 78% connection

A genus of marine bivalves, having a pearly interior, allied to the pearl oyster; -- so called from a supposed resemblance of the typi…

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Baculite noun · 78% connection

A cephalopod of the extinct genus Baculites, found fossil in the Cretaceous rocks. It is like an uncoiled ammonite.

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Basilisk noun · 78% connection

A large piece of ordnance, so called from its supposed resemblance to the serpent of that name, or from its size.

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Cauda galli unknown · 78% connection

A plume-shaped fossil, supposed to be a seaweed, characteristic of the lower Devonian rocks; as, the cauda galli grit.

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Ceratodus noun · 78% connection

A genus of ganoid fishes, of the order Dipnoi, first known as Mesozoic fossil fishes; but recently two living species have been discov…

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Cinquefoil noun · 78% connection

The name of several different species of the genus Potentilla; -- also called five-finger, because of the resemblance of its leaves to…

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Claim noun · 78% connection

A demand of a right or supposed right; a calling on another for something due or supposed to be due; an assertion of a right or fact.

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Conodont noun · 78% connection

A peculiar toothlike fossil of many forms, found especially in carboniferous rocks. Such fossils are supposed by some to be the teeth…

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Converse noun · 78% connection

A proposition in which, after a conclusion from something supposed has been drawn, the order is inverted, making the conclusion the su…

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Crania noun · 78% connection

A genus of living Brachiopoda; -- so called from its fancied resemblance to the cranium or skull.

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Cyathophylloid noun · 78% connection

A fossil coral of the family Cyathophyllidae; sometimes extended to fossil corals of other related families belonging to the group Rug…

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Echini pl. · 78% connection

of Echinus

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Fact noun · 78% connection

The assertion or statement of a thing done or existing; sometimes, even when false, improperly put, by a transfer of meaning, for the…

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Family verb · 78% connection

A group of organisms, either animal or vegetable, related by certain points of resemblance in structure or development, more comprehen…

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Form genus noun · 78% connection

an artificial taxonomic category established on the basis of morphological resemblance for organisms of obscure true relationships esp…

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