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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..

Liassic :: Liassic (a.) Of the age of the Lias; pertaining to the Lias formation.

Glossarist :: Glossarist (n.) A writer of glosses or of a glossary; a commentator; a scholiast.

Glossographer :: Glossographer (n.) A writer of a glossary; a commentator; a scholiast.

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..

Adder :: Adder (n.) A small venomous serpent of the genus Vipera. The common European adder is the Vipera (/ Pelias) berus. The puff adders of Africa are species of Clotho.

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.

Galliass :: Galliass (n.) Same as Galleass.

Millenarian :: Millenarian (n.) One who believes that Christ will personally reign on earth a thousand years; a Chiliast.

Alias :: Alias (adv.) At another time.

Chiliast :: Chiliast (n.) One who believes in the second coming of Christ to reign on earth a thousand years; a milllenarian.

Scholiastic :: Scholiastic (a.) Of or pertaining to a scholiast, or his pursuits..

Chiliasm :: Chiliasm (n.) The millennium.

Hicksite :: Hicksite (n.) A member or follower of the liberal party, headed by Elias Hicks, which, because of a change of views respecting the divinity of Christ and the Atonement, seceded from the conservative portion of the Society of Friends in the United States, in 1827..

Pateresfamilias :: Pateresfamilias (pl. ) of Paterfamilia.

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..

Scholiast :: Scholiast (n.) A maker of scholia; a commentator or annotator.

Chiliasm :: Chiliasm (n.) The doctrine of the personal reign of Christ on earth during the millennium.

Marlstone :: Marlstone (n.) A sandy calcareous straum, containing, or impregnated with, iron, and lying between the upper and lower Lias of England..

Dahlias :: Dahlias (pl. ) of Dahli.

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