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Faced or covered with copper; as, copper-faced type.

Like coral, or partaking of its qualities.

Consisting of or resembling, leather; leatherlike; tough.

Pertaining to, or resembling, a corolla; having the form or texture of a corolla.

See Corporas.

The brace of the fore-topsail on the leeward side of a vessel.

To brace in opposite directions; as, to counterbrace the yards, i. e., to brace the head yards one way and the after yards another.

Having a sour, disagreeable countenance. Beau & Fl.

White or pale, as the effect of fear, or as the natural complexion. Thou cream-faced loon. Shak.

Having the qualities of chalk;abounding with chalk; chalky; as, cretaceous rocks and formations. See Chalk. Cretaceous acid, an old name for carbonic acid. -- Cretaceous formation (Geol.), the series of strata of various kinds, including beds of chalk, green sand, etc., formed in the Cretaceous period; -- called also…

Of, pertaining to, or designating, the period of time following the Jurassic and preceding the Eocene.

In a chalky manner; as chalk.

The dark space within the negative-pole glow at the cathode of a vacuum tube, observed only when the pressure is low enough to give a striated discharge; -- called also Crookes layer.

One of the classes of the arthropods, including lobsters and crabs; -- so called from the crustlike shell with which they are covered.

Of or pertaining to the Crustacea; crustaceous. -- n.

Pertaining to crustaceology.

One versed in crustaceology; a crustalogist.

That branch of Zoölogy which treats of the Crustacea; malacostracology; carcinology.

Belonging to the Crustacea; crustacean.

The state or quality of being crustaceous or having a crustlike shell.