Word Meanings - SCHORLY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Pertaining to, or containing, schorl; as, schorly granite.

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• CONTAINMENT
  That which is contained; the extent; the substance. The containment of a rich man's estate. Fuller.
• SCHORLY
  Pertaining to, or containing, schorl; as, schorly granite.
• CONTAINANT
  A container.
• PERTAIN
  stretch out, reach, pertain; per + tenere to hold, keep. See Per-, 1. To belong; to have connection with, or dependence on, something, as an appurtenance, attribute, etc.; to appertain; as, saltness pertains to the ocean; flowers pertain to plant
• GRANITE
  A crystalline, granular rock, consisting of quartz, feldspar, and mica, and usually of a whitish, grayish, or flesh-red color. It differs from gneiss in not having the mica in planes, and therefor in being destitute of a schistose structure. Note:
• CONTAINABLE
  Capable of being contained or comprised. Boyle.
• GRANITE STATE
  New Hampshire; -- a nickname alluding to its mountains, which are chiefly of granite.
• CONTAINER
  One who, or that which, contains.
• SCHORLOUS
  Schorlaceous.
• SCHORLACEOUS
  Partaking of the nature and character of schorl; resembling schorl.
• CONTAIN
  1. To hold within fixed limits; to comprise; to include; to inclose; to hold. Behold, heaven and the heaven of heavens can not contain thee; how much less this house! 2 Chron. vi. 18. When that this body did contain a spirit. Shak. What thy stores
• SCHORL
  Black tourmaline.
• SELF-CONTAINED
  Having all the essential working parts connected by a bedplate or framework, or contained in a case, etc., so that mutual relations of the parts do not depend upon fastening outside of the machine itself. Self-contained steam engine.
• APPERTAIN
  To belong or pertain, whether by right, nature, appointment, or custom; to relate. Things appertaining to this life. Hooker. Give it unto him to whom it appertaineth. Lev. vi. 5. (more info) appartenir, fr. L. appertinere; ad + pertinere to reach