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An artifice or stratagem; a cunning contrivance; a sly procedure, usually with a dishonest intent; as, a trick in trade.
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Containing stratagem; as, a stratagemical epistle.
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Want of parallelism between strata in contact.
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A raising or upheaval of strata so as to disturb their regularity and uniformity, and to occasion folds, dislocations, and the like.
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The formation situated between the Permian and Lias, and so named by the Germans, because consisting of three series of strata, which are called in German the Bunter sandstein, Muschelkalk, and Keuper.
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An artifice; trick; stratagem; wile; fraud; deceit.
v. i.
A depression in coal strata, hollowed out before the subsequent deposition took place.
v. t.
To insnare; to catch by stratagem; to entrap; to trepan.
v. i.
To grow or become thin; -- used with some adverbs, as out, away, etc.; as, geological strata thin out, i. e., gradually diminish in thickness until they disappear.
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To draw by persuasion, artifice, or the like; to attract by stratagem; to entice; to allure.
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Bent on each side of a mountain or ridge, without being broken at top; -- said of strata.
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A snare; a stratagem; a trepan. See 3d Trepan.
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Want of parallelism between one series of strata and another, especially when due to a disturbance of the position of the earlier strata before the latter were deposited.
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The art of dressing up; artifice; stratagem; fraud; imposture.
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Lying under or beneath; hence, fundamental; as, the underlying strata of a locality; underlying principles.
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Fig.: A snare; an ambush; a stratagem; any device by which one may be caught unawares.
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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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Fig.: To insnare; to take by stratagem; to entrap.
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Work or devices suitable to be concealed; a secret stratagem.
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Not conformable; not lying in a parallel position; as, unconformable strata.
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