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From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 O·ris·ka·ny a.  Geol. Designating, or pertaining to, certain beds, chiefly limestone, characteristic of the latest period of the Silurian age.
 Oriskany period, a subdivision of the American Paleozoic system intermediate or transitional in character between the Silurian and Devonian ages. See Chart of Geology.