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A metalliferous deposit characterized by the impregnation of the mass of rock with many small veins or nests irregularly grouped. This kind of deposit is especially common with tin ore. Such deposits are worked in floors or stories.

The act of depositing in a store or warehouse for safe keeping; also, the safe keeping of goods in a warehouse.

A place of deposit for goods, esp. for large quantities; a storehouse; a warehouse; a magazine.

A building for keeping goods of any kind, especially provisions; a magazine; a repository; a warehouse. Joseph opened all the storehouses, and sold unto Egyptians. Gen. xli. 56. The Scripture of God is a storehouse abounding with estimable treasures of wisdom and knowledge. Hooker.

Room in a storehouse or repository; a room in which articles are stored.

The deposition of material in successive layers in the growth of a cell wall, thus giving rise to a stratified appearance.

To form or deposit in strata, or layers, as substances in the earth; to arrange in strata.

e from the sand and gravel. -- Stream works (Cornish Mining), a place where an alluvial deposit of tin ore is worked. Ure. -- To float with the stream, figuratively, to drift with the current of opinion, custom, etc., so as not to oppose or check it.

Gold in alluvial deposits; placer gold.

e a force to; to dash; to cast. They shall take of the blood, and strike it on the two sideposts. Ex. xii. 7. Who would be free, themselves must strike the blow. Byron.

Formed in or under water; as, subaqueous deposits.

A subordinate treasury, or place of deposit; as, the United States subtreasury at New York. [U. S.]

thick enough to crystallize; to approach or reach the state of granulation; -- with the preposition off. [Local, U.S.]

Silt; mud deposited by water. Sullage piece (Founding), the sprue of a casting. See Sprue, n., 1 (b).

The act of supplying; a supply. "The supplial of a preposition." Fitzed. Hall.

Not capable of being used as a term by itself; -- said of words, as an adverb or preposition.

Conscience viewed as the internal repository of the laws of duty. Whewell.

Any small cell, or like place, in which some holy or precious things was deposited or kept. Specifically: --

Of or pertaining to the sea; -- sometimes applied to rocks formed from sediments deposited upon the sea bottom.

aluminium group found in some minerals, as certain pyrites, and also in the lead-chamber deposit in the manufacture of sulphuric acid. It is isolated as a heavy, soft, bluish white metal, easily oxidized in moist air, but preserved by keeping under water. Symbol Tl. Atomic weight 203.7.