Definition of lias

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Lias (n.) The lowest of the three divisions of the Jurassic period; a name given in England and Europe to a series of marine limestones underlying the Oolite. See the Chart of Geology.

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Lias :: Lias (n.) The lowest of the three divisions of the Jurassic period; a name given in England and Europe to a series of marine limestones underlying the Oolite. See the Chart of Geology.
Dahlia :: Dahlia (n.) A genus of plants native to Mexico and Central America, of the order Compositae; also, any plant or flower of the genus. The numerous varieties of cultivated dahlias bear conspicuous flowers which differ in color..
Glossarist :: Glossarist (n.) A writer of glosses or of a glossary; a commentator; a scholiast.
Ichthyosaurus :: Ichthyosaurus (n.) An extinct genus of marine reptiles; -- so named from their short, biconcave vertebrae, resembling those of fishes. Several species, varying in length from ten to thirty feet, are known from the Liassic, Oolitic, and Cretaceous formations..
Glossographer :: Glossographer (n.) A writer of a glossary; a commentator; a scholiast.
Dahlias :: Dahlias (pl. ) of Dahli.
Scholiastic :: Scholiastic (a.) Of or pertaining to a scholiast, or his pursuits..
Chiliast :: Chiliast (n.) One who believes in the second coming of Christ to reign on earth a thousand years; a milllenarian.
Chiliasm :: Chiliasm (n.) The millennium.
Blacksmith :: Blacksmith (n.) A fish of the Pacific coast (Chromis, / Heliastes, punctipinnis), of a blackish color..
Alias :: Alias (adv.) Otherwise; otherwise called; -- a term used in legal proceedings to connect the different names of any one who has gone by two or more, and whose true name is for any cause doubtful; as, Smith, alias Simpson..
Alias :: Alias (n.) Another name; an assumed name.
Liassic :: Liassic (n.) Same as Lias.
Marlstone :: Marlstone (n.) A sandy calcareous straum, containing, or impregnated with, iron, and lying between the upper and lower Lias of England..
Chiliasm :: Chiliasm (n.) The doctrine of the personal reign of Christ on earth during the millennium.
Glosser :: Glosser (n.) A writer of glosses; a scholiast; a commentator.
Liassic :: Liassic (a.) Of the age of the Lias; pertaining to the Lias formation.
Sulphurate :: Sulphur (n.) Any one of numerous species of yellow or orange butterflies of the subfamily Pierinae; as, the clouded sulphur (Eurymus, / Colias, philodice), which is the common yellow butterfly of the Eastern United States..
Gyrolepis :: Gyrolepis (n.) A genus of ganoid fishes, found in strata of the new red sandetone, and the lias bone beds..
Pateresfamilias :: Pateresfamilias (pl. ) of Paterfamilia.
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