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flow of rock material beneath the surface under gravitative stress. By the theory of isostasy each unit column of the earth, from surface to center, has approximately the same weight, and the continents stand higher than the ocean beds chiefly because the material of the crust has there less density.…

A West Indian plant of the Pineapple family (Nidularium Karatas).

(Physiol.) A substance formed by a katabolic process; -- opposed to anastate. See Katabolic.

One who has but a smattering of Latin. Walker.

Stoppage of the mences.

A salt of metasilicic acid.

Designating an acid derived from silicic acid by the removal of water; of or pertaining to such an acid.

An alteration in a mineral or rock mass when involving a chemical change of the substance, as of chrysolite to serpentine; -- opposed to ordinary metamorphism, as implying simply a recrystallization. -- Met`a*so*mat"ic, a.

One of the component segments of the body of an animal.

A salt of metastannic acid.

Pertaining to, or designating, a compound of tin (metastannic acid), obtained, as an isomeric modification of stannic acid, in the form of a white amorphous substance.

A spiritual change, as during baptism.

Of, pertaining to, or caused by, metastasis; as, a metastatic abscess; the metastatic processes of growth.

Of or pertaining to the metasternum.

The most posterior element of the sternum; the ensiform process; xiphisternum.

A median elevation behind the mouth in the arthropods.

A tasimeter, especially when arranged for measuring very small extensions. See Tasimeter.

See Octostyle.

To task too heavily.

A pantascopic camera.