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tter, usually an intrusion of igneous rocks, filling up rents or fissures in the original strata.

To incline downward from the plane of the horizon; as, strata of rock dip.

Said of strata which lack conformity in direction of bedding, either as in unconformability, or as caused by a fault.

move from its socket; to disjoint; as, to dislocate 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.

The displacement of parts of rocks or portions of strata from the situation which they originally occupied. Slips, faults, and the like, are dislocations.

The beaked whale (Balænoptera rostrata), from which doegling oil is obtained.

The sudden drop or depression of the strata of rocks on one side of a fault. See Throw, n.

To avoid slyly, by artifice, stratagem, or dexterity; to escape from in a covert manner; to mock by an unexpected escape; to baffle; as, to elude an officer; to elude detection, inquiry, search, comprehension; to elude the force of an argument or a blow. Me gentle Delia beckons from the plain, Then, hid in shades, elud…

Of or pertaining to rocks or strata older than the Paleozoic, in many of which the eozoön has been found.

Contemporaneous in origin; as, the equivalent strata of different countries.

Belonging to, or formed in, an estuary; as, estuary strata. Lyell.

The fossil shells and other remains which animals have left in the strata of the earth.

A series of strata, of the Middle Tertiary period, of France, abounding in shells, and used by Lyell as the type of his Miocene subdivision.

A dislocation of the strata of the vein.

That which is feigned; an assumed or false appearance; a pretense; a stratagem; a fetch. Courtley's letter is but a feint to get off. Spectator.

rolling and pressure, with lees or size, without spinning or weaving. It were a delicate stratagem to shoe A troop of horse with felt. Shak .

A stratagem by which a thing is indirectly brought to pass, or by which one thing seems intended and another is done; a trick; an artifice. Every little fetch of wit and criticism. South.

Subtilty of contrivance to gain a point; artifice; stratagem. This is the artificialest piece of finesse to persuade men into slavery. Milton.

A tubelike marking, occuring in sandstone and other strata.

nfair advantage; artifice by which the right or interest of another is injured; injurious stratagem; deceit; trick. If success a lover's toil attends, Few ask, if fraud or force attained his ends. Pope.