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Brock :: Brock (n.) A badger.

Cyst :: Cyst (n.) One of the bladders or air vessels of certain algae, as of the great kelp of the Pacific, and common rockweeds (Fuci) of our shores..

Amygdaloidal :: Amygdaloidal (a.) Pertaining to, or having the nature of, the rock amygdaloid..

Lichen :: Lichen (n.) One of a class of cellular, flowerless plants, (technically called Lichenes), having no distinction of leaf and stem, usually of scaly, expanded, frond-like forms, but sometimes erect or pendulous and variously branched. They derive their nourishment from the air, and generate by means of spores. The species are very widely distributed, and form irregular spots or patches, usually of a greenish or yellowish color, upon rocks, trees, and various bodies, to which they adhere with great

Crocketing :: Crocketing (n.) Ornamentation with crockets.

Rockfish :: Rockfish (n.) An American fresh-water darter; the log perch.

Bed Rock :: Bed rock () The solid rock underlying superficial formations. Also Fig.

Fault :: Fault (v. t.) To interrupt the continuity of (rock strata) by displacement along a plane of fracture; -- chiefly used in the p. p.; as, the coal beds are badly faulted..

Hypogene :: Hypogene (a.) Formed or crystallized at depths the earth's surface; -- said of granite, gneiss, and other rocks, whose crystallization is believed of have taken place beneath a great thickness of overlying rocks. Opposed to epigene..

Shelfy :: Shelfy (a.) Full of strata of rock.

Epigene :: Epigene (a.) Formed originating on the surface of the earth; -- opposed to hypogene; as, epigene rocks..

Bullyrock :: Bullyrock (n.) A bully.

Enrockment :: Enrockment (n.) A mass of large stones thrown into water at random to form bases of piers, breakwaters, etc..

Itacolumite :: Itacolumite (n.) A laminated, granular, siliceous rocks, often occurring in regions where the diamond is found..

Petrean :: Petrean (a.) Of or pertaining to to rock.

Joint :: "Joint (n.) A plane of fracture, or divisional plane, of a rock transverse to the stratification..

Smut :: Smut (v. i.) To give off smut; to crock.

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

Pocket :: Pocket (n.) A cavity in a rock containing a nugget of gold, or other mineral; a small body of ore contained in such a cavity..

Norian :: Norian (a.) Pertaining to the upper portion of the Laurentian rocks.

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