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Laccolith :: Laccolith (n.) A mass of igneous rock intruded between sedimentary beds and resulting in a mammiform bulging of the overlying strata.

Graves :: Graves (n. pl.) The sediment of melted tallow. Same as Greaves.

Residence :: Residence (n.) Subsidence, as of a sediment..

Urrhodin :: Urrhodin (n.) Indigo red, a product of the decomposition, or oxidation, of indican. It is sometimes found in the sediment of pathological urines. It is soluble in ether or alcohol, giving the solution a beautiful red color. Also called indigrubin..

Settlement :: Settlement (n.) Matter that subsides; settlings; sediment; lees; dregs.

Sedimental :: Sedimental (a.) Sedimentary.

Mudhole :: Mudhole (n.) A hole near the bottom, through which the sediment is withdrawn..

Shale :: Shale (n.) A fine-grained sedimentary rock of a thin, laminated, and often friable, structure..

Roil :: Roil (v.) To render turbid by stirring up the dregs or sediment of; as, to roil wine, cider, etc. , in casks or bottles; to roil a spring..

Metamorphic :: Metamorphic (a.) Pertaining to, produced by, or exhibiting, certain changes which minerals or rocks may have undergone since their original deposition; -- especially applied to the recrystallization which sedimentary rocks have undergone through the influence of heat and pressure, after which they are called metamorphic rocks..

Sediment :: Sediment (n.) The matter which subsides to the bottom, frrom water or any other liquid; settlings; lees; dregs..

Sile :: Sile (n.) Filth; sediment.

Turbid :: Turbid (a.) Having the lees or sediment disturbed; roiled; muddy; thick; not clear; -- used of liquids of any kind; as, turbid water; turbid wine..

Antiguggler :: Antiguggler (n.) A crooked tube of metal, to be introduced into the neck of a bottle for drawing out the liquid without disturbing the sediment or causing a gurgling noise..

Decantation :: Decantation (n.) The act of pouring off a clear liquor gently from its lees or sediment, or from one vessel into another..

Hypostasis :: Hypostasis (n.) That which is deposited at the bottom of a fluid; sediment.

Decant :: Decant (v. t.) To pour off gently, as liquor, so as not to disturb the sediment; or to pour from one vessel into another; as, to decant wine..

Feces :: Feces (n. pl.) dregs; sediment; excrement. See FAeces.

Feculence :: Feculence (n.) That which is feculent; sediment; lees; dregs.

Sediment :: Sediment (n.) The material of which sedimentary rocks are formed.

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