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; to heap together; to accumulate. Shoals of shells, bedded and cumulated heap upon heap. Woodward.

hould not have been as curious as to their origin, their uses, and their natural history. Woodward.

rd. Rocks, mountains, and the other elevations of the earth suffer a continual decrement. Woodward.

To let fall; to deposit. [Obs.] Additional mud deposed upon it. Woodward.

uncovering of anything buried or covered with earth; a taking out of the earth or ground. Woodward.

The act of rolling down. [R.] The devolution of earth down upon the valleys. Woodward.

s being broken, . . . the stone included in them is thereby disclosed and set at liberty. Woodward.

e your bones. Shak. After some time the strata on all sides of the globe were dislocated. Woodward. And thus the archbishop's see, dislocated or out of joint for a time, was by the hands of his holiness set right again. Fuller.

A nearly uniform and constant fire or heat disseminated throughout the body of the earth. Woodward.

eing dissolved; having its parts separable by heat or moisture; convertible into a fluid. Woodward.

To diverge; to be divaricate. Woodward.

One who, or that which, dives. Divers and fishers for pearls. Woodward.

water of the sea, which formerly covered it, was in time exhaled and dried up by the sun. Woodward.

sage out of a place; egress; way out. Forcing he water forth thought its ordinary exists. Woodward.

Wildness; savageness; fierceness. [Obs.] Woodward.

It carried rather an appearance of figment and invention . . . than of truth and reality. Woodward.

A flat stone used for paving. Woodward.

Somewhat flat. Woodward.

; a fugitive idea. The me more tender and fugitive parts, the leaves . . . of vegatables. Woodward. Fugitive compositions, Such as are short and occasional, and so published that they quickly escape notice.

Capable of being melted or rendered fluid by heat; fusible. [R.] "A kind of fusil marble" Woodward.