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e United States Geological Survey and some other authorities, between the Archæan and the Paleozoic, from both of which it is generally separated in the record by unconformities. Algonkian rocks are both sedimentary and igneous. Although fossils are rare, life certainly existed in this period. -- n.…

The palace of the Moorish kings at Granada.

cordial, in the form of a confection, deriving its name from the kermes insect, its principal ingredient.

; entirely; quite; very; as, all bedewed; my friend is all for amusement. "And cheeks all pale." Byron.

A figurative sentence or discourse, in which the principal subject is described by another subject resembling it in its properties and circumstances. The real subject is thus kept out of view, and we are left to collect the intentions of the writer or speaker by the resemblance of the secondary to the primary subject.…

lves. Allelomorphs which under certain circumstances are themselves compound are called hypallelomorphs. See Mendel's law. -- Al*le`lo*mor"phic (#), a.

To extenuate; to palliate. [R.] He alleviates his fault by an excuse. Johnson.

t; as, an allocation of shares in a company. The allocation of the particular portions of Palestine to its successive inhabitants. A. R. Stanley.

An oxidation product of uric acid. It is of a pale reddish color, readily soluble in water or alcohol.

At or from a distance, but within view, or at a small distance; apart; away. Our palace stood aloof from streets. Dryden.

pecific gravity of about 2.6. Atomic weight 27.08. Symbol Al. Aluminium bronze or gold, a pale gold- colored alloy of aluminium and copper, used for journal bearings, etc.

Of a pale brown color; leather-yellow. Brande.

A yellowish translucent resin resembling copal, found as a fossil in alluvial soils, with beds of lignite, or on the seashore in many places. It takes a fine polish, and is used for pipe mouthpieces, beads, etc., and as a basis for a fine varnish. By friction, it becomes strongly electric.

A room formerly in the Czar's Summer Palace in Russia, which was richly decorated with walls and fixtures made from amber. The amber was removed by occupying German troops during the Second World War and has, as of 1997, never been recovered. The room is being recreated from old photographs by Russian artisans. PJC…

One of the radical zones of echinoderms, along which run the principal nerves, blood vessels, and water tubes. These zones usually bear rows of locomotive suckers or tentacles, which protrude from regular pores. In star fishes they occupy the grooves along the under side of the rays.

p. a state of being without crystallization even in the minutest particles, as in glass, opal, etc.

A race of giants living in Palestine.

A syllabus, or table of the principal heads of a discourse, disposed in their natural order.

us cellular tissue; an effusion of serum into the cellular substance, occasioning a soft, pale, inelastic swelling of the skin.

ed shield of the Romans, said to have-fallen from heaven in the reign of Numa. It was the palladium of Rome.