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American Dictionary of the English Language, Vol. 1
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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.
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Chicago: Noah Webster Jr., "Fossil," American Dictionary of the English Language, Vol. 1 in An American Dictionary of the English Language, Vol. 1 (New York: S. Converse, 1828), Original Sources, accessed April 24, 2024, http://www.originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=KPE4AQ7X4YMXECV.
MLA: Webster, Noah, Jr. "Fossil." American Dictionary of the English Language, Vol. 1, in An American Dictionary of the English Language, Vol. 1, New York, S. Converse, 1828, Original Sources. 24 Apr. 2024. http://www.originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=KPE4AQ7X4YMXECV.
Harvard: Webster, N, 'Fossil' in American Dictionary of the English Language, Vol. 1. cited in 1828, An American Dictionary of the English Language, Vol. 1, S. Converse, New York. Original Sources, retrieved 24 April 2024, from http://www.originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=KPE4AQ7X4YMXECV.
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