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Of the nature of, or containing, actinolite.

The science of aërolites.

Of or pertaining to aërolites; meteoric; as, aërolitic iron. Booth.

ndly manner; courteous; sociable. An affable and courteous gentleman. Shak. His manners polite and affable. Macaulay.

Paronomasia; also, alliteration; annomination.

A illiterate person. [Obs.] Bailey.

A contraction for are not and am not; also used for is not. [Colloq. or llliterate speech]. See An't.

partaking of the same properties; of the same kind. "A joy akin to rapture." Cowper. The literary character of the work is akin to its moral character. Jeffrey.

ement, or artificial stone, consisting chiefly of magnesia and silica; -- called also albolite.

cal; to understand in an allegorical sense; as, when a passage in a writer may understood literally or figuratively, he who gives it a figurative sense is said to allegorize it.

Literal. [Obs.] "Alphabetical servility." Milton.

A theodolite. Knight.

Oölite or roestone; -- written also hammite. [Obs.]

Any stock of missiles, literal or figurative. Ammunition bread, shoes, etc., such as are contracted for by government, and supplied to the soldiers. [Eng.]

of magnesium and calcium, with usually aluminium and iron. Some common varieties are tremolite, actinolite, asbestus, edenite, hornblende (the last name being also used as a general term for the whole species). Amphibole is a constituent of many crystalline rocks, as syenite, diorite, most varieties of trachyte, etc. S…

art, by nodules or geodes of different minerals, esp. agates, quartz, calcite, and the zeolites. When the imbedded minerals are detached or removed by decomposition, it is porous, like lava.

tion for are and am not; also used for is not; -- now usually written ain't. [Colloq. & illiterate speech.]

A suffix to names of persons or places, used to denote a collection of notable sayings, literary gossip, anecdotes, etc. Thus, Scaligerana is a book containing the sayings of Scaliger, Johnsoniana of Johnson, etc.

Literally, the letters of a word read backwards, but in its usual wider sense, the change or one word or phrase into another by the transposition of its letters. Thus Galenus becomes angelus; William Noy (attorney-general to Charles I., and a laborious man) may be turned into I moyl in law.

A white or flesh-red mineral, of the zeolite, occurring in isometric crystals. By friction, it acquires a weak electricity; hence its name.