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The quality of being lenitive.

The quality or habit of being lenient; lenity. [Obs.] Blount.

atment; softness; tenderness; clemency; -- opposed to severity and rigor. His exceeding lenity disposes us to be somewhat too severe. Macaulay.

See Granulite.

A whitish, reddish, or yellowish, transparent or translucent mineral, allied to chabazite.

A mineral of an olive-green color, commonly in orthorhombic crystals. It is a hydrous phosphate of copper.

Mineral coal retaining the texture of the wood from which it was formed, and burning with an empyreumatic odor. It is of more recent origin than the anthracite and bituminous coal of the proper coal series. Called also brown coal, wood coal.

Containing lignite; resembling, or of the nature of, lignite; as, lignitic clay. Lignitic group. See Laramie group.

Producing or containing lignite; lignitic.

Hydrous sesquixoide of iron, an important ore of iron, occurring in stalactitic, mammillary, or earthy forms, of a dark brown color, yellowish brown powder. It includes bog iron. Also called brown hematite.

A hydrated arseniate of copper, occurring in obtuse pyramidal crystals of a sky-blue or verdigris-green color.

Same as Laumontite.

Pertaining to tidal movements dependent on the moon. Bache. Lunitidal interval. See Retard, n.

A kind of granite from Luxullian, Cornwall, characterized by the presence of radiating groups of minute tourmaline crystals.

Inflammation of the lymphatic glands; -- called also lymphitis.

The Mosasaurus Hofmanni. See Mosasaurus.

ed amongst themselves, that the intervals of empty spaces between them may be equal in magnitude to them all. Sir I. Newton.

Virulence; deadly quality. His physicians discerned an invincible malignity in his disease. Hayward.

One devoted to the acquisition of wealth or the service of Mammon. C. Kingsley.

One of the oxides of manganese; -- called also gray manganese ore. It occurs in brilliant steel-gray or iron-black crystals, also massive.