Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for FOS'SIL-CO-PAL
FOS'SIL-CO-PAL, n.
Highgate resin; a resinous substance found in perforating the bed of blue clay at Highgate, near London. It appears to be a true vegetable gum or resin, partly changed by remaining in the earth. Cyc. Aikin.
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