English English Dictionary

An order of tailed aquatic amphibians, including Siren and Pseudobranchus. They have anterior legs only, are eel-like in form, and have no teeth except a small patch on the palate. The external gills are persistent through life.

An igneous rock, usually light gray in color and breaking with a rough surface. It consists chiefly of orthoclase feldspar with sometimes hornblende and mica.

Of, pertaining to, or resembling, trachyte.

Resembling trachyte; -- used to define the structure of certain rocks.

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The act of one who traces; especially, the act of copying by marking on thin paper, or other transparent substance, the lines of a pattern placed beneath; also, the copy thus producted.

A regular path or track; a course.

A mark left by something that has passed along; as, the track, or wake, of a ship; the track of a meteor; the track of a sled or a wheel.

A mark or impression left by the foot, either of man or beast; trace; vestige; footprint.

The entire lower surface of the foot; -- said of birds, etc.

A road; a beaten path.

Course; way; as, the track of a comet.

A path or course laid out for a race, for exercise, etc.

The permanent way; the rails.

A tract or area, as of land.

To follow the tracks or traces of; to pursue by following the marks of the feet; to trace; to trail; as, to track a deer in the snow.

To draw along continuously, as a vessel, by a line, men or animals on shore being the motive power; to tow.

A towing path.

The act of tracking, or towing, as a boat; towage.

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