Definition of rock

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Rock (n.) See Roc.

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Earthenware :: Earthenware (n.) Vessels and other utensils, ornaments, or the like, made of baked clay. See Crockery, Pottery, Stoneware, and Porcelain..
Stegosauria :: Stegocephala (n. pl.) An extinct order of amphibians found fossil in the Mesozoic rocks; called also Stegocephali, and Labyrinthodonta..
Granite :: Granite (n.) A crystalline, granular rock, consisting of quartz, feldspar, and mica, and usually of a whitish, grayish, or flesh-red color. It differs from gneiss in not having the mica in planes, and therefore in being destitute of a schistose structure..
Rocksucker :: Rocksucker (n.) A lamprey.
Foliation :: Foliation (n.) The property, possessed by some crystalline rocks, of dividing into plates or slabs, which is due to the cleavage structure of one of the constituents, as mica or hornblende. It may sometimes include slaty structure or cleavage, though the latter is usually independent of any mineral constituent, and transverse to the bedding, it having been produced by pressure..
Favosites :: Favosites (n.) A genus of fossil corals abundant in the Silurian and Devonian rocks, having polygonal cells with perforated walls..
Sea Trout :: Sea trout () A California fish of the family Chiridae, especially Hexagrammus decagrammus; -- called also spotted rock trout. See Rock trout, under Rock..
Trifoliated :: Trifoliated (a.) Having three leaves or leaflets, as clover. See Illust. of Shamrock..
Rocket :: Rocket (n.) Rocket larkspur. See below.
Loosen :: Loosen (v. t.) To make loose; to free from tightness, tension, firmness, or fixedness; to make less dense or compact; as, to loosen a string, or a knot; to loosen a rock in the earth..
Pegmatite :: Pegmatite (n.) More generally, a coarse granite occurring as vein material in other rocks..
Rupellary :: Rupellary (n.) Rocky.
Slate :: Slate (v. t.) Any rock or stone having a slaty structure.
Rosmarine :: Rosmarine (n.) A fabulous sea animal which was reported to climb by means of its teeth to the tops of rocks to feed upon the dew.
Rock :: Rock (v. i.) To move or be moved backward and forward; to be violently agitated; to reel; to totter.
Rock :: Rock (n.) Any natural deposit forming a part of the earth's crust, whether consolidated or not, including sand, earth, clay, etc., when in natural beds..
Tarrock :: Tarrock (n.) The common guillemot.
Reefy :: Reefy (a.) Full of reefs or rocks.
Sedimentation :: Sedimentation (n.) The act of depositing a sediment; specifically (Geol.), the deposition of the material of which sedimentary rocks are formed..
Tufa :: Tufa () A friable volcanic rock or conglomerate, formed of consolidated cinders, or scoria..
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