dialect. (See quots.)

A track, trail, or other sign indicating the presence of American Indians. Also as a mass noun.

(a) the visible evidence of geological change; esp. the fossil content of rock strata, as used to date strata or their fossils; an instance of…

The mark of teeth in an ear that has been bitten. Obsolete.

Something recorded in or on rock, esp. evidence for biological history found in fossils (cf. fossil record n. at fossil, n. adj.compounds 2).

the mark of a tool upon any object that has been shaped or worked by it.

†(a) the place where a stack or shock has stood; (b) dialect a mark, stain or blemish.

A linear mark or stain made by water.

Archaeology. A hole dug to receive a post supporting a building or other structure.

a mark made by a tooth in biting, or transferred by an edged tool.

an index of the quantity of pollen in the atmosphere, issued as a warning to sufferers from hay fever; (also) an estimate of the quantity of pollen…

a localized discoloration of the ground over the buried remains of a building, etc., visible in dry weather.

attributive and in other combinations, designating chisel-shaped implements; tranchet blow n. (a mark made by) a hard stroke at right angles to the…