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Fossil
FOS'SIL, a. [L. fossitis, from fodio, fossius, to dig.]
1. Dug out of the earth; as fossil coal; fossil salt. The term fossil is now usually appropriated to those inorganic substances, which have become penetrated by earthy or metallic particles. Thus we say, fossil shells, fossil bones, fossil wood.
2. That may be taken from the earth by digging.
FOS'SIL, n. A substance dug from the earth, or penetrated with earthy or metallic particles.
Fossils are native or extraneous. Native fossils are minerals, properly so called, as earth, salts, combustibles and metallic bodies. Extraneous fossils are bodies of vegetable or animal origin accidentally buried in the early, as plants, shells, bones and other substances, many of which are petrified.
fossil appears in definitions for these words:
Alcyonite Alcyonium Alveolus Amber Ammonite Amphiscil Analyze Anomite Arachnoid Arborization Asphurelates Astacite Asteropode Astrite Baculite Balanite Basalt Batrachite Belemnite Bezoar Bovey-coal Brechite Buccinite Bufonite Bullite Calamin Calamine Cancrite Candle-coal Cannel-coal Cardite Catsilver Cerite Chamite Closeness Cloudiness Coal Cochlite Coke Cologne-earth Component Conchite Corallinite Corallite Culm Delve Dendroit Dendrolite Dentalite Detection Dig Dipping Dryite Echinite Embowel Encrinite Entomolite Entrochite Essay Extraneous Fairystone Farin Favosite Figurate Finger-stone Firestone Fossil Fossilist Fossilization Fossilize Fossilized Fossilizing Fossilogy Fungite Galactite Galerite Generic Greasy Gryphite Hamite Helicite High-flying Ichthyolite Indurate Jeat Jet Lignite Linen Lithocarp Lithoglyphite Lithophyl Lituite Loose Luck Lymnite Madreporite Mastodon Metal Miliolite Milleporite Mine Miner Mineral Mining Muricite Mushroom-stone Nature Nautilite Nummulite Of Orthoceratite Oryctognosy Oryctography Oryctology Osteocol Ostracite Part Patellite Pectinite Pentacrinite Pentremite Phalanx Phytolite Pinnite Pit-coal Polypite Porousness Porpite Rock-salt Rotalite Saltly Sandal-wood Sanidium Scaphite Scientific Sea-coal Semi-protolite Serpent Serpulite Sory Star-stone Systemize Tellinite Temachis Terebratulite Texture Trochite Tubiporite Turrilite Typolite Umber Unicorn Zarnich Zoolite
Alcyonite Alcyonium Alveolus Amber Ammonite Amphiscil Analyze Anomite Arachnoid Arborization Asphurelates Astacite Asteropode Astrite Baculite Balanite Basalt Batrachite Belemnite Bezoar Bovey-coal Brechite Buccinite Bufonite Bullite Calamin Calamine Cancrite Candle-coal Cannel-coal Cardite Catsilver Cerite Chamite Closeness Cloudiness Coal Cochlite Coke Cologne-earth Component Conchite Corallinite Corallite Culm Delve Dendroit Dendrolite Dentalite Detection Dig Dipping Dryite Echinite Embowel Encrinite Entomolite Entrochite Essay Extraneous Fairystone Farin Favosite Figurate Finger-stone Firestone Fossil Fossilist Fossilization Fossilize Fossilized Fossilizing Fossilogy Fungite Galactite Galerite Generic Greasy Gryphite Hamite Helicite High-flying Ichthyolite Indurate Jeat Jet Lignite Linen Lithocarp Lithoglyphite Lithophyl Lituite Loose Luck Lymnite Madreporite Mastodon Metal Miliolite Milleporite Mine Miner Mineral Mining Muricite Mushroom-stone Nature Nautilite Nummulite Of Orthoceratite Oryctognosy Oryctography Oryctology Osteocol Ostracite Part Patellite Pectinite Pentacrinite Pentremite Phalanx Phytolite Pinnite Pit-coal Polypite Porousness Porpite Rock-salt Rotalite Saltly Sandal-wood Sanidium Scaphite Scientific Sea-coal Semi-protolite Serpent Serpulite Sory Star-stone Systemize Tellinite Temachis Terebratulite Texture Trochite Tubiporite Turrilite Typolite Umber Unicorn Zarnich Zoolite
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