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s locker, or Davy's locker. See Davy Jones. -- Shot locker, a compartment where shot are deposited. Totten.

ce at the mouth of a level next the shaft, widened to permit wagons to pass, or ore to be deposited for hoisting; -- called also platt. Raymond.

An accumulation or collection of something deposited in a place or remaining at rest.

A quaternary deposit, usually consisting of a fine yellowish earth, on the banks of the Rhine and other large rivers.

A public institution for lending money to the poor at a moderate interest, upon articles deposited and pledged; -- called also mont de piété.

A precipitate; a fine substance deposited by precipitation; -- applied in old chemistry to certain white precipitates from metallic solutions; as, magistery of bismuth. Ure.

Collateral security deposited with a broker to secure him from loss on contracts entered into by him on behalf of his principial, as in the speculative buying and selling of stocks, wheat, etc. N. Biddle. Margin draft (Masonry), a smooth cut margin on the face of hammer-dressed ashlar, adjacent to the joints. -- Margi…

Formed by the action of the currents or waves of the sea; as, marine deposits. Marine acid (Chem.), hydrochloric acid. [Obs.] -- Marine barometer. See under Barometer. -- Marine corps, a corps formed of the officers, noncommissioned officers, privates, and musicants of marines. -- Marine engine (Mech.), a steam engin…

mostly larger than elephants, and their romains occur in nearly all parts of the world in deposits ranging from Miocene to late Quaternary time.

mental, vital, chemical, etc.; as, mechanical principles; a mechanical theory; mechanical deposits.

The morbid deposition of black matter, often of a malignant character, causing pigmented tumors.

A coloring produced by the deposition of some metallic compound; specifically, the prismatic tints produced by depositing a film of peroxide of lead on polished steel by electricity.

hibiting, certain changes which minerals or rocks may have undergone since their original deposition; -- especially applied to the recrystallization which sedimentary rocks have undergone through the influence of heat and pressure, after which they are called metamorphic rocks.

amped promise, certificate, or order, as a government note, a bank note, a certificate of deposit, etc., which is payable in standard coined money and is lawfully current in lieu of it; in a comprehensive sense, any currency usually and lawfully employed in buying and selling.

An accumulation of earth and stones carried forward and deposited by a glacier. Lyell.

A term applied to the lowest deposits of the Cretaceous or chalk formation of Europe, being the lower greensand.

The horselouse; an insect that deposits nits on horses.

A genus of gadflies. The species which deposits its larvæ in the nasal cavities of sheep is oestrus ovis.

om bone by dilute acid; in embryonic tissue, the substance in which the mineral salts are deposited to form bone; -- called also ostein. Chemically it is the same as collagen.

e process, in the growth of an animal, by which inorganic material (mainly lime salts) is deposited in cartilage or membrane, forming bony tissue; ostosis.