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Smoothness; baldness. [R.]

A mineral, consisting of the sulphates of soda and lime.

The state of being globular; globosity; sphericity.

A medicinal preparation made by mixing or dissolving a substance in glycerin.

One of the followers of Francis Gomar or Gomarus, a Dutch disciple of Calvin in the 17th century, who strongly opposed the Arminians.

One who collects illustrations from various books for the decoration of one book.

A hard, coarse-grained siliceous sandstone; as, millstone grit; -- called also gritrock and gritstone. The name is also applied to a finer sharp-grained sandstone; as, grindstone grit.

Peace; security; agreement. [Obs.] Gower.

See Grit, n., 4.

The quality of being gritty.

Containing sand or grit; consisting of grit; caused by grit; full of hard particles.

A projecting turret for a sentry, as at the salient angles of works, or the acute angles of bastions.

A mineral consisting of the arseniate of lime; -- so named in honor of W. Haidinger, of Vienna.

The cast or form of writing peculiar to each hand or person; chirography.

Native sulphide of manganese a reddish brown or brownish black mineral.

A rare fluophosphate of glucina, in small white crystals.

The state of being heritable.

Capable of being inherited or of passing by inheritance; inheritable.

That which is inherited, or passes from heir to heir; inheritance. Part of my heritage, Which my dead father did bequeath to me. Shak.

Heritage; inheritance. [R.] Robbing their children of the heritance Their fathers handed down Southey.