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h and moon; belonging to the joint action or mutual relations of the earth and moon; as, geoselenic phenomena.

Relating to the pressure exerted by earth or similar substance. Geostatic arch, an arch having a form adapted to sustain pressure similar to that exerted by earth. Rankine.

the downward bend or subsidence of the earth's crust, which allows of the gradual accumulation of sediment, and hence forms the first step in the making of a mountain range; -- opposed to geanticlinal.

A large Wealden dinosaur from the Tilgate Forest, England. It was about twenty feet long, protected by bony plates in the skin, and armed with spines.

Same as Hylæosaur.

See Creosote.

See Lignin.

The substance constituting the edible bird's nest.

The study of young birds.

Oily. [R.] Ray. Floyer.

The state or quality of being oily or fat; fatness. [R.] B. Jonson.

tance which is obtained indirectly from the root of an umbelliferous plant (Imperatoria Oreoselinum), and yields resorcin on decomposition.

A genus of small oceanic fishes, remarkable for the large conical tubercles which cover the under surface.

A tumor having the structure of a sacroma in which there is a deposit of bone; sarcoma connected with bone.

Abnormal hardness and density of bone.

An instrument for exhibiting the repulsive action produced by light or heat in an exhausted vessel; a modification of the radoimeter. W. Crookes.

A genus of fossil saurians found in the Permian formation.

A brownish zoöspore, characteristic of an order (Phæosporeæ) of dark green or olive-colored algæ. -- Phæ`o*spor"ic, a.

creatic juice, and also by the hydrolytic action of boiling dilute acids on proteids. Proteoses are divided into the two groups, the primary and secondary proteoses.

See Rheostat.