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A man who is skilled in traveling upon ice, as among glaciers.
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The upper part of a glacier, above the limit or perpetual snow. See Galcier.
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An accumulation of earth and stones carried forward and deposited by a glacier.
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The process of glaciating, or the state of being glaciated; the production of glacial phenomena.
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One of the great divisions of geological time; as, the Tertiary period; the Glacial period. See the Chart of Geology.
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The highest portion of the glacis proceeding from the salient angle of the covered way.
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Pertaining to, or designating, a monobasic acid, HPO3, analogous to nitric acid, and, by heating phosphoric acid, obtained as a crystalline substance, commonly called glacial phosphoric acid.
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Of, pertaining to, or derived from, a former glacial formation.
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Prior to the glacial or drift period.
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Pertaining or belonging to the under side of a glacier; being beneath a glacier; as, subglacial streams.
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A rounded knoll of rock resembling the back of a sheep. -- produced by glacial action. Called also roche moutonnee; -- usually in the plural.
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To produce glacial effects upon, as in the scoring of rocks, transportation of loose material, etc.
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A deposit of clay, sand, and gravel, without lamination, formed in a glacier valley by means of the waters derived from the melting glaciers; -- sometimes applied to alluvium of an upper river terrace, when not laminated, and appearing as if formed in the same manner.
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A narrow ditch or trench made from the foremost parallel toward the glacis or covert way of a besieged place by digging under cover of gabions, etc.
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One who attributes the phenomena of the drift, in geology, to glaciers.
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Resembling ice; having the appearance and consistency of ice; -- said of certain solid compounds; as, glacial phosphoric or acetic acids.
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Pertaining to ice or to its action; consisting of ice; frozen; icy; esp., pertaining to glaciers; as, glacial phenomena.
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The arctic fulmar (Fulmarus glacialis). Sometimes also applied to other sea birds.
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A minute groove, or channel; a threadlike line, as of color; a narrow structural band or line; a striation; as, the striae, or groovings, produced on a rock by a glacier passing over it; the striae on the surface of a shell; a stria of nervous matter in the brain.
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Not stratified; -- applied to massive rocks, as granite, porphyry, etc., and also to deposits of loose material, as the glacial till, which occur in masses without layers or strata.
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