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The quality or state of being polite; refinement of manners; urbanity; courteous behavior; complaisance; obliging attentions.

Politeness.

A mineral usually occurring in fibrous masses, of a brick-red color, being tinged with iron, and consisting chiefly of the sulphates of lime, magnesia, and soda.

or pertaining to the ham; in the region of the ham, or behind the knee joint; as, the popliteal space.

A kind of militia in Poland, consisting of the gentry, which, in case of invasion, was summoned to the defense of the country.

A variety of altered iolite of a green color and greasy luster.

Popularly, any modern artist thought to be a would-be restorer of early ideas or methods, as one of the German painters often called Nazarenes, or one who paints and draws with extreme minuteness of detail.

Of or pertaining to the style called preraphaelitism; as, a preraphaelite figure; a preraphaelite landscape. Ruskin.

A silicified stem of tree fern, found in abundance in the Triassic sandstone.

A mineral, usually of a white or greenish color and pearly luster, consisting chiefly of the hydrous silicate of alumina.

A mineral, usually of a pale brown or of a gray or grayish green color, consisting chiefly of the hydrous silicate of iron and manganese; -- so called from the odor given off before the blowpipe.

Consisting of four letters.

Consisting of five letters.

A hippurite.

One who advocates or adopts the principles of Raphaelism.

A translucent variety of serpentine, of a honey yellow or greenish yellow color, having a waxy resinlike luster.

A concretion formed within the cavities of the nose.

A fossil cephalopod beak.

A quartzose trachyte, an igneous rock often showing a fluidal structure. -- Rhy`o*lit"ic, a.

A translucent mineral of a green color and micaceous structure, belonging to the chlorite group; a hydrous silicate of alumina, magnesia, and iron; -- called also clinochlore.