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Completely crystalline; -- said of a rock like granite, all the constituents of which are crystalline.

Formed or crystallized at depths the earth's surface; -- said of granite, gneiss, and other rocks, whose crystallization is believed of have taken place beneath a great thickness of overlying rocks. Opposed to epigene.

To penetrate between or within; to penetrate mutually. It interpenetrates my granite mass. Shelley.

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

appearance, as serpentine or verd antique marble, and less properly to polished porphyry, granite, etc.

rs massive. Massive rock (Geol.), a compact crystalline rock not distinctly schistone, as granite; also, with some authors, an eruptive rock.

A rock showing under the microscope the structure of a graphic granite (pegmatite). -- Mi`cro*peg`ma*tit"ic, a.

A species of English granite, used as a building stone.

Graphic granite. See under Granite.

or resembling, pegmatite; as, the pegmatic structure of certain rocks resembling graphic granite.

To splash or sprinkle with coloring matter; as, to plash a wall in imitation of granite.

The dashing or sprinkling of coloring matter on the walls of buildings, to imitate granite, etc.

f volcanic heat and other subterranean forces under pressure. -- Plutonic rocks (Geol.), granite, porphyry, and some other igneous rocks, supposed to have consolidated from a melted state at a great depth from the surface. Cf. Intrusive rocks, under Intrusive. -- Plutonic theory. (Geol.) See Plutonism.…

pposed to have been first formed, being crystalline and containing no organic remains, as granite, gneiss, etc.; -- called also primitive rocks. The terms Secondary, Tertiary, and Quaternary rocks have also been used in like manner, but of these the last two only are now in use. -- Primary salt (Chem.), a salt derived…

A kind of granite or gneiss containing a silvery talcose mineral.

ith glue, the surface of which, while soft, is variegated with splinters of marble, spar, granite, etc., and subsequently colored and polished.

Pertaining to, or containing, schorl; as, schorly granite.

In Egyptian art, an image of granite or porphyry, having a human head, or the head of a ram or of a hawk, upon the wingless body of a lion. The awful ruins of the days of old . . . Or jasper tomb, or mutilated sphinx. Shelley.

tz, hornblende, and feldspar, anciently quarried at Syene, in Upper Egypt, and now called granite.

Relating to, or like, syenite; as, syenitic granite.