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

Rock :: Rock (n.) A distaff used in spinning; the staff or frame about which flax is arranged, and from which the thread is drawn in spinning..

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..

Crock :: Crock (n.) The loose black particles collected from combustion, as on pots and kettles, or in a chimney; soot; smut; also, coloring matter which rubs off from cloth..

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

Rubble :: Rubble (n.) A mass or stratum of fragments or rock lying under the alluvium, and derived from the neighboring rock..

Scar :: Scar (n.) An isolated or protruding rock; a steep, rocky eminence; a bare place on the side of a mountain or steep bank of earth..

Strike :: Strike (n.) The horizontal direction of the outcropping edges of tilted rocks; or, the direction of a horizontal line supposed to be drawn on the surface of a tilted stratum. It is at right angles to the dip..

Rocketer :: Rocketer (n.) A bird, especially a pheasant, which, being flushed, rises straight in the air like a rocket..

Poecilitic :: Poecilitic (a.) Mottled with various colors; variegated; spotted; -- said of certain rocks.

Ledge :: Ledge (n.) A lode; a limited mass of rock bearing valuable mineral.

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.

Python :: Python (n.) Any species of very large snakes of the genus Python, and allied genera, of the family Pythonidae. They are nearly allied to the boas. Called also rock snake..

Wacky :: Wacky (n.) A soft, earthy, dark-colored rock or clay derived from the alteration of basalt..

Rock :: Rock (v. t.) To cause to sway backward and forward, as a body resting on a support beneath; as, to rock a cradle or chair; to cause to vibrate; to cause to reel or totter..

Slide :: Slide (n.) The descent of a mass of earth, rock, or snow down a hill or mountain side; as, a land slide, or a snow slide; also, the track of bare rock left by a land slide..

Rhyolite :: Rhyolite (n.) A quartzose trachyte, an igneous rock often showing a fluidal structure..

Quebec Group :: Quebec group () The middle of the three groups into which the rocks of the Canadian period have been divided in the American Lower Silurian system. See the Chart of Geology.

Dalmania :: Dalmania (n.) A genus of trilobites, of many species, common in the Upper Silurian and Devonian rocks..

Rock :: Rock (n.) That which resembles a rock in firmness; a defense; a support; a refuge.

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