AS-SWAGE'AS'TE-ISM
AS'TA-CITE, or AS'TAC-O-LITE, n. [Gr. ασακος, a crawfish, and λιθος, a stone.]
Petrified or fossil crawfish, and other crustaceous animals; called also cancrites, crabites, and gammarolites.
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