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Alum shale
unknown · 78% connection
A variety of shale or clay slate, containing iron pyrites, the decomposition of which leads to the formation of alum, which often effl…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: species, slate, suitable, written.
Analogue
noun · 78% connection
A species or genus in one country closely related to a species of the same genus, or a genus of the same group, in another: such speci…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: species, slate, suitable, written.
Argillite
noun · 78% connection
Argillaceous schist or slate; clay slate. Its colors is bluish or blackish gray, sometimes greenish gray, brownish red, etc.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: species, slate, suitable, written.
Bare
noun · 78% connection
That part of a roofing slate, shingle, tile, or metal plate, which is exposed to the weather.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: species, slate, suitable, written.
Basanite
noun · 78% connection
Lydian stone, or black jasper, a variety of siliceous or flinty slate, of a grayish or bluish black color. It is employed to test the…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: species, slate, suitable, written.
Bed
noun · 78% connection
The lower surface of a brick, slate, or tile.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: species, slate, suitable, written.
Cleavage
noun · 78% connection
Division into laminae, like slate, with the lamination not necessarily parallel to the plane of deposition; -- usually produced by pre…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: species, slate, suitable, written.
Crisscross
noun · 78% connection
A child's game played on paper or on a slate, consisting of lines arranged in the form of a cross.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: species, slate, suitable, written.
Fault
noun · 78% connection
In coal seams, coal rendered worthless by impurities in the seam; as, slate fault, dirt fault, etc.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: species, slate, suitable, written.
Flashing
noun · 78% connection
Pieces of metal, built into the joints of a wall, so as to lap over the edge of the gutters or to cover the edge of the roofing; also,…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: species, slate, suitable, written.
Garfish
noun · 78% connection
One of several species of similar fishes of the genus Tylosurus, of which one species (T. marinus) is common on the Atlantic coast. T.…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: species, slate, suitable, written.
Gauge
noun · 78% connection
That part of a shingle, slate, or tile, which is exposed to the weather, when laid; also, one course of such shingles, slates, or tile…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: species, slate, suitable, written.
Gneissoid
adjective · 78% connection
Resembling gneiss; having some of the characteristics of gneiss; -- applied to rocks of an intermediate character between granite and…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: species, slate, suitable, written.
Grain
noun · 78% connection
The direction, arrangement, or appearance of the fibers in wood, or of the strata in stone, slate, etc.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: species, slate, suitable, written.
Graptolitic
adjective · 78% connection
Of or pertaining to graptolites; containing graptolites; as, a graptolitic slate.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: species, slate, suitable, written.
Heal
verb · 78% connection
To cover, as a roof, with tiles, slate, lead, or the like.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: species, slate, suitable, written.
Keramographic
adjective · 78% connection
Suitable to be written upon; capable of being written upon, as a slate; -- said especially of a certain kind of globe.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: species, slate, suitable, written.
Log
noun · 78% connection
Hence: The record of the rate of ship's speed or of her daily progress; also, the full nautical record of a ship's cruise or voyage; a…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: species, slate, suitable, written.
