Word Meanings - MELLITE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A mineral of a honey color, found in brown coal, and partly the result of vegetable decomposition; honeystone. It is a mellitate of alumina.

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• ALUMINATE
  A compound formed from the hydrate of aluminium by the substitution of a metal for the hydrogen.
• COLORMAN
  A vender of paints, etc. Simmonds.
• HONEYED
  1. Covered with honey. 2. Sweet, as, honeyed words. Milton.
• BROWNBACK
  The dowitcher or red-breasted snipe. See Dowitcher.
• FOUNDATION
  The lowest and supporting part or member of a wall, including the base course , under Base, n.) and footing courses; in a frame house, the whole substructure of masonry. 4. A donation or legacy appropriated to support a charitable institution,
• HONEYWORT
  A European plant of the genus Cerinthe, whose flowers are very attractive to bees. Loudon.
• FOUNDER
  One who founds, establishes, and erects; one who lays a foundation; an author; one from whom anything originates; one who endows.
• HONEYSUCKLE
  One of several species of flowering plants, much admired for their beauty, and some for their fragrance. Note: The honeysuckles are properly species of the genus Lonicera; as, L. Caprifolium, and L. Japonica, the commonly cultivated fragrant kinds;
• HONEY-TONGUED
  Sweet speaking; persuasive; seductive. Shak.
• PARTLY
  In part; in some measure of degree; not wholly. "I partly believe it." 1 Cor. xi. 18.
• 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.
• RESULTIVE
  Resultant. Fuller.
• COLORATE
  Colored. Ray.
• COLORIMETRY
  The quantitative determination of the depth of color of a substance. 2. A method of quantitative chemical analysis based upon the comparison of the depth of color of a solution with that of a standard liquid.
• DECOMPOSITION
  1. The act or process of resolving the constituent parts of a compound body or substance into its elementary parts; separation into constituent part; analysis; the decay or dissolution consequent on the removal or alteration of some of
• FOUND
  imp. & p. p. of Find.
• FOUNDATIONER
  One who derives support from the funds or foundation of a college or school.
• HONEYWARE
  See BADDERLOCKS
• FOUNDEROUS
  Difficult to travel; likely to trip one up; as, a founderous road. Burke.
• HONEY
  G. honig, OHG. honag, honang, Icel. hunang, Sw. håning, Dan. honning, 1. A sweet viscid fluid, esp. that collected by bees from flowers of plants, and deposited in the cells of the honeycomb. 2. That which is sweet or pleasant, like honey. The
• CONFOUNDED
  1. Confused; perplexed. A cloudy and confounded philosopher. Cudworth. 2. Excessive; extreme; abominable. He was a most confounded tory. Swift. The tongue of that confounded woman. Sir. W. Scott.
• CONCOLOR
  Of the same color; of uniform color. "Concolor animals." Sir T. Browne.
• ISABELLA; ISABELLA COLOR
  A brownish yellow color. (more info) Spanish princess Isabella, daughter of king Philip II., in allusion to the color assumed by her shift, which she wore without change from
• AETHIOPS MINERAL
  See MINERAL