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A coarse frock, or shirt, worn over the other dress, as by farm laborers. Macaulay.

Same as Chain wheel.

A shovel with a turned-up edge, for frit, sand, etc. [Written also strocal, strocle, strokal.]

The young of the kittiwake gull before the first molt.

A gull. [Prov. Eng.]

To deprive or divest or a frock; specifically, to deprive of priestly character or privilege; as, to unfrock a priest.

The common sandpiper.

A cruciferous plant (Nasturtium sylvestre) with small yellow flowers.

A compact woodlike variety of asbestus.

-ear. Several large species are found on the coast of California, clinging closely to the rocks.

To rub or wear off; to waste or wear away by friction; as, to abrade rocks. Lyell.

Broken off; very steep, or craggy, as rocks, precipices, banks; precipitous; steep; as, abrupt places. "Tumbling through ricks abrupt," Thomson.

epoch at the beginning of the American paleozoic time, and including the oldest American rocks known to be fossiliferous. See Geology. -- Acadian owl (Zoöl.), a small North American owl (Nyctule Acadica); the saw-whet.

ow a rhetorical or poetical name for the embodiment of impenetrable hardness. Opposed the rocky orb Of tenfold adamant, his ample shield. Milton.

ilicate of alumina and soda. It is a common constituent of granite and of various igneous rocks. See Feldspar.

, 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.

Obs. or Poet.] All as his straying flock he fed. Spenser. A damsel lay deploring All on a rock reclined. Gay. All to, or All-to. In such phrases as "all to rent," "all to break," "all-to frozen," etc., which are of frequent occurrence in our old authors, the all and the to have commonly been regarded as forming a compo…

Away from; clear from. [Obs.] Rivetus . . . would fain work himself aloof these rocks and quicksands. Milton.

me, in some respects, different; to vary; to change; as, the weather alters almost daily; rocks or minerals alter by exposure. "The law of the Medes and Persians, which altereth not." Dan. vi. 8.

Composed of alternate layers, as some rocks.