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Strategetic :: Stratarithmetry (n.) The art of drawing up an army, or any given number of men, in any geometrical figure, or of estimating or expressing the number of men in such a figure..

Wily :: Wily (superl.) Full of wiles, tricks, or stratagems; using craft or stratagem to accomplish a purpose; mischievously artful; subtle..

Supplant :: Supplant (n.) To remove or displace by stratagem; to displace and take the place of; to supersede; as, a rival supplants another in the favor of a mistress or a prince..

Section :: Section (n.) The description or representation of anything as it would appear if cut through by any intersecting plane; depiction of what is beyond a plane passing through, or supposed to pass through, an object, as a building, a machine, a succession of strata; profile..

Subtle :: Subtle (superl.) Cunningly devised; crafty; treacherous; as, a subtle stratagem..

Hogback :: Hogback (n.) A ridge formed by tilted strata; hence, any ridge with a sharp summit, and steeply sloping sides..

Clinometer :: Clinometer (n.) An instrument for determining the dip of beds or strata, pr the slope of an embankment or cutting; a kind of plumb level..

Equivalent :: Equivalent (a.) Contemporaneous in origin; as, the equivalent strata of different countries..

Stratocracy :: Stratigraphy (n.) That branch of geology which treats of the arrangement and succession of strata.

Clump :: Clump (n.) The compressed clay of coal strata.

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..

Unconformity :: Unconformity (n.) Want of parallelism between strata in contact.

Grain :: Grain (n.) The direction, arrangement, or appearance of the fibers in wood, or of the strata in stone, slate, etc..

Monoclinal :: Monoclinal (a.) Having one oblique inclination; -- applied to strata that dip in only one direction from the axis of elevation.

Basset :: Basset (a.) Inclined upward; as, the basset edge of strata..

Trickery :: Trickery (n.) The art of dressing up; artifice; stratagem; fraud; imposture.

Stratarithmetry :: Stratagemical (a.) Containing stratagem; as, a stratagemical epistle..

Plot :: Plot (n.) Any scheme, stratagem, secret design, or plan, of a complicated nature, adapted to the accomplishment of some purpose, usually a treacherous and mischievous one; a conspiracy; an intrigue; as, the Rye-house Plot..

Trapan :: Trapan (n.) A snare; a stratagem; a trepan. See 3d Trepan.

Substratum :: Substrata (pl. ) of Substratu.

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