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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.


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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.

FOS'SIL, a. [Fr. fossile; Sp. fosil; It. fossile; L. fossilis; from fodio, fossus, to dig.]

  1. Dug out of the earth; as, fossil coal; fossil salt. The term fossil is now usually appropriated to those organic substances, which have become penetrated by earthy or metallic particles, and are found in rocks or the earth. Thus we say, fossil shells, fossil bones, fossil wood. – Cleaveland.
  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 earths, salts, combustibles and metallic bodies. Extraneous fossils are bodies of vegetable or animal origin, accidentally buried in the earth, as plants, shells, bones and other substances, many of which are petrified. Encyc.


Fos"sil
  1. Dug out of the earth; as, fossil coal; fossil salt.
  2. A substance dug from the earth.

    [Obs.]

    * Formerly all minerals were called fossils, but the word is now restricted to express the remains of animals and plants found buried in the earth. Ure.

  3. Like or pertaining to fossils; contained in rocks, whether petrified or not; as, fossil plants, shells.

    Fossil copal, a resinous substance, first found in the blue clay at Highgate, near London, and apparently a vegetable resin, partly changed by remaining in the earth. -- Fossil cork, flax, paper, or wood, varieties of amianthus. -- Fossil farina, a soft carbonate of lime. -- Fossil ore, fossiliferous red hematite. Raymond.

  4. The remains of an animal or plant found in stratified rocks. Most fossils belong to extinct species, but many of the later ones belong to species still living.
  5. A person whose views and opinions are extremely antiquated; one whose sympathies are with a former time rather than with the present.

    [Colloq.]
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Fossil

FOS'SIL, adjective [Latin 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, noun 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.

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