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Morosaurus :: Morosaurus (n.) An extinct genus of large herbivorous dinosaurs, found in Jurassic strata in America..

Measure :: Measure (a.) Beds or strata; as, coal measures; lead measures..

Trick :: Trick (a.) An artifice or stratagem; a cunning contrivance; a sly procedure, usually with a dishonest intent; as, a trick in trade..

Manoeuvre :: Manoeuvre (n.) Management with address or artful design; adroit proceeding; stratagem.

Exuviae :: Exuviae (n. pl.) The fossil shells and other remains which animals have left in the strata of the earth.

Anglemeter :: Anglemeter (n.) An instrument to measure angles, esp. one used by geologists to measure the dip of strata..

Microlestes :: Microlestes (n.) An extinct genus of small Triassic mammals, the oldest yet found in European strata..

Sheet :: Sheet (v. t.) An extensive bed of an eruptive rock intruded between, or overlying, other strata..

Creep :: Creep (n.) A slow rising of the floor of a gallery, occasioned by the pressure of incumbent strata upon the pillars or sides; a gradual movement of mining ground..

Silurian :: Silurian (a.) Of or pertaining to the country of the ancient Silures; -- a term applied to the earliest of the Paleozoic eras, and also to the strata of the era, because most plainly developed in that country..

Inversion :: Inversion (n.) The folding back of strata upon themselves, as by upheaval, in such a manner that the order of succession appears to be reversed..

Net :: Net (v. t.) To take in a net; to capture by stratagem or wile.

Plot :: Plot (v. i.) To contrive a plan or stratagem; to scheme.

Chicanery :: Chicanery (n.) Mean or unfair artifice to perplex a cause and obscure the truth; stratagem; sharp practice; sophistry.

Faluns :: Faluns (n.) A series of strata, of the Middle Tertiary period, of France, abounding in shells, and used by Lyell as the type of his Miocene subdivision..

Stratagem :: Strata (n.) pl. of Stratum.

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..

Interstratify :: Interstratify (v. t.) To put or insert between other strata.

Trias :: Trias (n.) The formation situated between the Permian and Lias, and so named by the Germans, because consisting of three series of strata, which are called in German the Bunter sandstein, Muschelkalk, and Keuper..

Wealden :: Wealden (n.) The Wealden group or strata.

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