Word Meanings - ANORTHITE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A mineral of the feldspar family, commonly occurring in small glassy crystals, also a constituent of some igneous rocks. It is a lime feldspar. See Feldspar.

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• SMALLISH
  Somewhat small. G. W. Cable.
• MINERALIZATION
  The conversion of a cell wall into a material of a stony nature. (more info) 1. The process of mineralizing, or forming a mineral by combination of a metal with another element; also, the process of converting into a mineral, as a bone or a plant.
• FAMILY
  A groupe of organisms, either animal or vegetable, related by certain points of resemblance in structure or development, more comprehensive than a genus, because it is usually based on fewer or less pronounced points of likeness. In zoölogy
• COMMONLY
  1. Usually; generally; ordinarily; frequently; for the most part; as, confirmed habits commonly continue trough life. 2. In common; familiary. Spenser.
• CONSTITUENT
  1. Serving to form, compose, or make up; elemental; component. Body, soul, and reason are the three parts necessarily constituent of a man. Dryden. 2. Having the power of electing or appointing. A question of right arises between the constituent
• SMALLCLOTHES
  A man's garment for the hips and thighs; breeches. See Breeches.
• SMALLPOX
  A contagious, constitutional, febrile disease characterized by a peculiar eruption; variola. The cutaneous eruption is at first a collection of papules which become vesicles (first flat, subsequently umbilicated) and then pustules, and finally thick
• MINERALOGICALLY
  According to the principles of, or with reference to, mineralogy.
• FELDSPAR; FELDSPATH
  A name given to a group of minerals, closely related in crystalline form, and all silicates of alumina with either potash, soda, lime, or, in one case, baryta. They occur in crystals and crystalline masses, vitreous in luster, and breaking rather
• SMALL
  sm$l; akin to D. smal narrow, OS. & OHG. smal small, G. schmal narrow, Dan. & Sw. smal, Goth. smals small, Icel. smali smal cattle, sheep, or goats; cf. Gr. 1. Having little size, compared with other things of the same kind; little in quantity
• MINERALOGY
  1. The science which treats of minerals, and teaches how to describe, distinguish, and classify them. 2. A treatise or book on this science.
• SMALLAGE
  A biennial umbelliferous plant native of the seacoats of Europe and Asia. When deprived of its acrid and even poisonous properties by cultivation, it becomes celery.
• IGNEOUS
  Resulting from, or produced by, the action of fire; as, lavas and basalt are igneous rocks. (more info) 1. Pertaining to, having the nature of, fire; containing fire; resembling fire; as, an igneous appearance.
• SMALLY
  In a small quantity or degree; with minuteness. Ascham.
• MINERALIST
  One versed in minerals; mineralogist.
• ROCKSUCKER
  A lamprey.
• OCCURRENCE
  1. A coming or happening; as, the occurence of a railway collision. Voyages detain the mind by the perpetual occurrence and expectation of something new. I. Watts. 2. Any incident or event; esp., one which happens without being designed
• MINERALOGIZE
  To study mineralogy by collecting and examining minerals. Miss Edgeworth.
• MINERALIZER
  An element which is combined with a metal, thus forming an ore. Thus, in galena, or lead ore, sulphur is a mineralizer; in hematite, oxygen is a mineralizer.
• SMALLNESS
  The quality or state of being small.
• DISMALLY
  In a dismal manner; gloomily; sorrowfully; uncomfortably.
• SEMILIGNEOUS
  Half or partially ligneous, as a stem partly woody and partly herbaceous.
• AETHIOPS MINERAL
  See MINERAL
• ABYSMALLY
  To a fathomless depth; profoundly. "Abysmally ignorant." G. Eliot.
• SUBFAMILY
  One of the subdivisions, of more importance than genus, into which certain families are divided.