Word Meanings - VARIOLITE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A kind of diorite or diabase containing imbedded whitish spherules, which give the rock a spotted appearance.

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• CONTAINMENT
  That which is contained; the extent; the substance. The containment of a rich man's estate. Fuller.
• SPOTTEDNESS
  State or quality of being spotted.
• WHICHEVER; WHICHSOEVER
  Whether one or another; whether one or the other; which; that one which; as, whichever road you take, it will lead you to town.
• CONTAINANT
  A container.
• WHICH
  the root of hwa who + lic body; hence properly, of what sort or kind; akin to OS. hwilik which, OFries. hwelik, D. welk, G. welch, OHG. welih, hwelih, Icel. hvilikr, Dan. & Sw. hvilken, Goth. hwileiks, 1. Of what sort or kind; what; what a; who.
• SPOTTED
  Marked with spots; as, a spotted garment or character. "The spotted panther." Spenser. Spotted fever , a name applied to various eruptive fevers, esp. to typhus fever and cerebro-spinal meningitis. -- Spotted tree , an Australian tree ; -- so
• SPOTTER
  One who spots.
• WHITISH
  Covered with an opaque white powder. (more info) 1. Somewhat white; approaching white; white in a moderate degree.
• CONTAINABLE
  Capable of being contained or comprised. Boyle.
• WHITISHNESS
  The quality or state of being whitish or somewhat white.
• CONTAINER
  One who, or that which, contains.
• SPOTTINESS
  The state or quality of being spotty.
• APPEARANCE
  The coming into court of either of the parties; the being present in court; the coming into court of a party summoned in an action, either by himself or by his attorney, expressed by a formal entry by the proper officer to that effect; the act or
• DIORITE
  An igneous, crystalline in structure, consisting essentially of a triclinic feldspar and hornblende. It includes part of what was called greenstone.
• DIABASE
  A basic, dark-colored, holocrystalline, igneous rock, consisting essentially of a triclinic feldspar and pyroxene with magnetic iron; -- often limited to rocks pretertiary in age. It includes part of what was early called greenstone.
• SPOTTY
  Full of spots; marked with spots.
• 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
• REAPPEARANCE
  A second or new appearance; the act or state of appearing again.
• 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.
• DISAPPEARANCE
  The act of disappearing; cessation of appearance; removal from sight; vanishing. Addison.
• NONAPPEARANCE
  Default of apperance, as in court, to prosecute or defend; failure to appear.
• EYESPOTTED; EYE-SPOTTED
  Marked with spots like eyes. Junno's bird, in her eye-spotted train. Spenser.
• UNSPOTTED
  Not spotted; free from spot or stain; especially, free from moral stain; unblemished; immaculate; as, an unspotted reputation. -- Un*spot"ted*ness, n.
• CINQUE-SPOTTED
  Five-spotted. Shak.