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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..

Deposition :: Deposition (n.) The act of depositing or deposing; the act of laying down or thrown down; precipitation.

Ossify :: Ossify (v. t.) To form into bone; to change from a soft animal substance into bone, as by the deposition of lime salts..

Deposition :: Deposition (n.) The act of bringing before the mind; presentation.

Deposition :: Deposition (n.) An opinion, example, or statement, laid down or asserted; a declaration..

Metallochrome :: Metallochrome (n.) A coloring produced by the deposition of some metallic compound; specifically, the prismatic tints produced by depositing a film of peroxide of lead on polished steel by electricity..

Pigmentation :: Pigmentation (n.) A deposition, esp. an excessive deposition, of coloring matter; as, pigmentation of the liver..

Tumor :: Tumor (n.) A morbid swelling, prominence, or growth, on any part of the body; especially, a growth produced by deposition of new tissue; a neoplasm..

Want :: Want (v. i.) A depression in coal strata, hollowed out before the subsequent deposition took place..

Galvanoplastic :: Galvanoplastic (a.) Of or pertaining to the art or process of electrotyping; employing, or produced by, the process of electolytic deposition; as, a galvano-plastic copy of a medal or the like..

Tufa :: Tufa () A soft or porous stone formed by depositions from water, usually calcareous; -- called also calcareous tufa..

Dethronement :: Dethronement (n.) Deposal from a throne; deposition from regal power.

Secondary :: Secondary (a.) Subsequent in origin; -- said of minerals produced by alteertion or deposition subsequent to the formation of the original rocks mass; also of characters of minerals (as secondary cleavage, etc.) developed by pressure or other causes..

Cleavage :: Cleavage (n.) Division into laminae, like slate, with the lamination not necessarily parallel to the plane of deposition; -- usually produced by pressure..

Depose :: Depose (v. i.) To bear witness; to testify under oath; to make deposition.

Deposition :: Deposition (n.) That which is deposited; matter laid or thrown down; sediment; alluvial matter; as, banks are sometimes depositions of alluvial matter..

Hypostatical :: Hypostatical (a.) Depending upon, or due to, deposition or setting; as, hypostatic cognestion, cognestion due to setting of blood by gravitation..

Rickets :: Rickets (n. pl.) A disease which affects children, and which is characterized by a bulky head, crooked spine and limbs, depressed ribs, enlarged and spongy articular epiphyses, tumid abdomen, and short stature, together with clear and often premature mental faculties. The essential cause of the disease appears to be the nondeposition of earthy salts in the osteoid tissues. Children afflicted with this malady stand and walk unsteadily. Called also rachitis..

Stalactite :: Stalactite (n.) A pendent cone or cylinder of calcium carbonate resembling an icicle in form and mode of attachment. Stalactites are found depending from the roof or sides of caverns, and are produced by deposition from waters which have percolated through, and partially dissolved, the overlying limestone rocks..

Vessel :: Vessel (n.) A continuous tube formed from superposed large cylindrical or prismatic cells (tracheae), which have lost their intervening partitions, and are usually marked with dots, pits, rings, or spirals by internal deposition of secondary membranes; a duct..

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