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An alkaloid found in opium in small quantities, and extracted as a white crystalline substance.

See Lantern. [Obs.]

A tower or other building with a powerful light at top, erected at the entrance of a port, or at some important point on a coast, to serve as a guide to mariners at night; a pharos.

A combining form from Gr. stone.

Pertaining to or designating an organic acid of the tartaric acid series, distinct from lithofellic acid, but, like it, obtained from certain bile products, as bezoar stones.

Fossil fruit; a fruit petrified; a carpolite.

See Lithochromics.

The art of printing colored pictures on canvas from oil paintings on stone.

An instrument for crushing stones in the bladder.

A sac containing small, calcareous concretions (otoliths). They are found in many Medusæ, and other invertebrates, and are supposed to be auditory organs.

lves, which form holes in limestone, in which they live; esp., any species of the genus Lithodomus.

Like, or pertaining to, Lithodomus; lithophagous.

r their ability to bore holes for shelter, in solid limestone, shells, etc. Called also Lithophagus.

Pertaining to, or designating, a crystalline, organic acid, resembling cholic acid, found in the biliary intestinal concretions (bezoar stones) common in certain species of antelope.

An explosive compound of nitroglycerin. See Nitroglycerin.

The doctrine or science of the origin of the minerals composing the globe.

Stone-producing; -- said of polyps which form coral.

An engraving on a gem.

One who curs or engraves precious stones.

Of or pertaining to the art of cutting and engraving precious stones.