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See Bornite.

ng; to kindle to passionate emotion; to stir up to combined or general activity; as, to excite a person, the spirits, the passions; to excite a mutiny or insurrection; to excite heat by friction.

Full of exciting qualities; as, an exciteful story; exciteful players. Chapman.

f being roused into action, or of having increased action; impulsion; agitation; as, an excitement of the people.

One who, or that which, excites. Hope is the grand exciter of industry. Dr. H. More.

Limestone containing a large percentage of iron carbonate, and hence turning brown on exposure.

A gelatin dynamite in which the dope is composed largely of sodium nitrate.

Cited or quoted before or above. Arbuthnot.

Named or recited before. "The forerecited practices." Shak.

A composition made from blood, mixed with mineral or vegetable substances, used for making buttons, door knobs, etc.

To move to action; to stir up; to rouse; to spur or urge on. Anthiochus, when he incited Prusias to join in war, set before him the greatness of the Romans. Bacon. No blown ambition doth our arms incite. Shak.

That which incites the mind, or moves to action; motive; incentive; impulse. Burke. From the long records of a distant age, Derive incitements to renew thy rage. Pope.

One who, or that which, incites.

A white, crystalline, sugarlike substance, obtained by the decomposition of certain glucosides, and intermediate in nature between the hexacid alcohols (ductile, mannite, etc.) and the glucoses.

A fossil rush.

A mineral having a glassy fracture, occurring in translucent trapezohedral crystals. It is a silicate of alumina and potash. It is found in the volcanic rocks of Italy, especially at Vesuvius.

A granitoid rock containing feldspar, biotite, elæolite, and sodalite.

To cite erroneously.

To recite erroneously.

Nitrate of calcium, a substance having a grayish white color, occuring in efforescences on old walls, and in limestone caves, especially where there exists decaying animal matter.