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The direction, arrangement, or appearance of the fibers in wood, or of the strata in stone, slate, etc. Knots, by the conflux of meeting sap, Infect the sound pine and divert his grain Tortive and errant from his course of growth. Shak.

ain order or relation, or having some resemblance or common characteristic; as, groups of strata.

A genus of fossil fishes, found in Devonian and carboniferous strata; -- so named from their round, sculptured spines.

A genus of ganoid fishes, found in strata of the new red sandetone, and the lias bone beds. Agassiz.

bert. The American species are C. Americana, which produces the common hazelnut, and C. rostrata. See Filbert. Gray.

A ridge formed by tilted strata; hence, any ridge with a sharp summit, and steeply sloping sides.

The epoch or time during which a deposit was made. The strata all over the earth, which were formed at the same time, are said to belong to the same geological horizon. Le Conte.

ted cases of caddice worms, or larvæ of caddice flies (Phryganea). It is found in Miocene strata of Auvergne, France, and some other localities.

To take by wiles, stratagem, or deceit; to involve in difficulties or perplexities; to seduce by artifice; to inveigle; to allure; to entangle. The insnaring charms Of love's soft queen. Glover.

Stratification among or between other layers or strata; also, that which is interstratified.

To put or insert between other strata.

omplicated plot or scheme intended to effect some purpose by secret artifice; conspiracy; stratagem. Busy meddlers with intrigues of state. Pomfret.

The folding back of strata upon themselves, as by upheaval, in such a manner that the order of succession appears to be reversed.

Situated apparently in reverse order, as strata when folded back upon themselves by upheaval. Inverted arch (Arch.), an arch placed with crown downward; -- much used in foundations.

A term applied to many American Mesozoic strata, in which the characteristics of the Jurassic and Triassic periods appear to be blended. -- Ju`ra-tri*as"sic, a.

k intruded between sedimentary beds and resulting in a mammiform bulging of the overlying strata. -- Lac`co*lit"ic, a.

An extensive series of strata, principally developed in the Rocky Mountain region, as in the Laramie Mountains, and formerly supposed to be of the Tertiary age, but now generally regarded as Cretaceous, or of intermediate and transitional character. It contains beds of lignite, often valuable for coal, and is hence als…

genera. See Brachiopoda, and Illustration in Appendix. Lingula flags (Geol.), a group of strata in the lower Silurian or Cambrian system of Wales, in which some of the layers contain vast numbers of a species of Lingula.

Acuteness; smartness; also, a smart trick or stratagem.[Obs.] Stanihurst.

A series of strata in the lower Silurian formations of Great Britain; -- so named from Llandeilo in Southern Wales. See Chart of Geology.