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Rock oil, mineral oil, or natural oil, a dark brown or greenish inflammable liquid, which, at certain points, exists in the upper strata of the earth, from whence it is pumped, or forced by pressure of the gas attending it. It consists of a complex mixture of various hydrocarbons, largely of the methane series, but may vary much in appearance, composition, and properties. It is refined by distillation, and the products include kerosene, benzine, gasoline, paraffin, etc.

• Stratarithmetry
  The art of drawing up an army, or any given number of men, in any geometrical figure, or of estimating or expressing the number of men in such a figure.
• Earthliness
  The quality or state of being earthly; worldliness; grossness; perishableness.
• EARTHENHEARTED
  Hard-hearted; sordid; gross. [Poetic] Lowell.
• Earthworm
  Any worm of the genus Lumbricus and allied genera, found in damp soil. One of the largest and most abundant species in Europe and America is L. terrestris; many others are known; -- called also angleworm and dewworm.
• SERIESTURNS
  The turns in a series circuit.
• Forcibly
  In a forcible manner.
• Liquidamber
  See Liquidambar.
• Mineralized
  of Mineralize
• Brownback
  The dowitcher or red-breasted snipe. See Dowitcher.
• Naturalization
  The act or process of naturalizing, esp. of investing an alien with the rights and privileges of a native or citizen; also, the state of being naturalized.
• Certainty
  The quality, state, or condition, of being certain.
• Pumpernickel
  A sort of bread, made of unbolted rye, which forms the chief food of the Westphalian peasants. It is acid but nourishing.
• Earthed
  of Earth
• Earthling
  An inhabitant of the earth; a mortal.
• EARTHFLAX
  A variety of asbestus. See Amianthus.
• SERIESWINDING
  A winding in which the armature coil and the field-magnet coil are in series with the external circuits; -- opposed to shunt winding. --Se"ries-wound`, a.
• Forcipal
  Forked or branched like a pair of forceps; constructed so as to open and shut like a pair of forceps.

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