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Crocketed :: Crocketed (a.) Ornamented with crockets.

Brock :: Brock (n.) A badger.

Wall :: Wall (n.) The country rock bounding a vein laterally.

Throw :: Throw (v. t.) To drive by violence; as, a vessel or sailors may be thrown upon a rock..

Alternant :: Alternant (v. t.) Composed of alternate layers, as some rocks..

Shamrock :: Shamrock (n.) A trifoliate plant used as a national emblem by the Irish. The legend is that St. Patrick once plucked a leaf of it for use in illustrating the doctrine of the trinity.

Catskill Period :: Catskill period () The closing subdivision of the Devonian age in America. The rocks of this period are well developed in the Catskill mountains, and extend south and west under the Carboniferous formation. See the Diagram under Geology..

Sink :: Sink (n.) A hole or low place in land or rock, where waters sink and are lost; -- called also sink hole..

Shelf :: Shelf (v. i.) A sand bank in the sea, or a rock, or ledge of rocks, rendering the water shallow, and dangerous to ships..

Rocket :: Rocket (n.) Damewort.

Chasm :: Chasm (n.) A deep opening made by disruption, as a breach in the earth or a rock; a yawning abyss; a cleft; a fissure..

Greenstone :: Greenstone (n.) A name formerly applied rather loosely to certain dark-colored igneous rocks, including diorite, diabase, etc..

Roche Alum :: Roche alum () A kind of alum occuring in small fragments; -- so called from Rocca, in Syria, whence alum is said to have been obtained; -- also called rock alum..

Rocker :: Rocker (n.) A chair mounted on rockers; a rocking-chair.

Strike :: Strike (v. i.) To run upon a rock or bank; to be stranded; as, the ship struck in the night..

Rock :: Rock (n.) The striped bass. See under Bass.

Amygdaloid :: Amygdaloid (n.) A variety of trap or basaltic rock, containing small cavities, occupied, wholly or in part, by nodules or geodes of different minerals, esp. agates, quartz, calcite, and the zeolites. When the imbedded minerals are detached or removed by decomposition, it is porous, like lava..

Clinkstone :: Clinkstone (n.) An igneous rock of feldspathic composition, lamellar in structure, and clinking under the hammer. See Phonolite..

Crock :: Crock (n.) A low stool.

Rocking-horse :: Rocking-horse (n.) The figure of a horse, mounted upon rockers, for children to ride..

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