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An impure, massive, flintlike quartz or hornstone, of a dull color.

A massive mineral, greenish in color, and opal-like in appearance. It is essentially a hydrous silicate of iron.

A hydrous silicate of copper, occurring massive, of a blue or greenish blue color.

Composed of clumps; massive; shapeless. Leigh Hunt.

A hydrous borate of lime occurring in transparent colorless or white crystals, also massive, in Southern California.

The red oxide of copper; red copper; an important ore of copper, occurring massive and in isometric crystals.

Pertaining to the Cyclops; characteristic of the Cyclops; huge; gigantic; vast and rough; massive; as, Cyclopean labors; Cyclopean architecture.

r captains Hakluyt. More notorious for the daintiness of the provision . . . than for the massiveness of the dish. Hakewill. The duke exeeded in the daintiness of his leg and foot, and the earl in the fine shape of his hands, Sir H. Wotton.

A mineral occuring in octahedral crystals, also massive, of a reddish color. It is a silicate of iron, zinc manganese, and glicinum, containing sulphur.

A massive variety of fluor spar, found in Derbyshire, England, and wrought into vases and other ornamental work.

a dinner to; to furnish with the chief meal; to feed; as, to dine a hundred men. A table massive enough to have dined Johnnie Armstrong and his merry men. Sir W. Scott.

A massive mineral of tin-white or steel-gray color, an arsenide of copper.

The chief tower, also called the keep; a massive tower in ancient castles, forming the strongest part of the fortifications. See Illust. of Castle.

A mineral of a blackish green color, commonly massive or in nodules. It is a hydrous phosphate of iron.

A variety of hephelite, usually massive, of greasy luster, and gray to reddish color. Elæolite syenite, a kind of syenite characterized by the presence of elæolite.

Elephant's foot (Bot.) (a) A South African plant (Testudinaria Elephantipes), which has a massive rootstock covered with a kind of bark cracked with deep fissures; -- called also tortoise plant. The interior part is barely edible, whence the plant is also called Hottentot's bread. (b) A genus (Elephantopus) of coarse,…

An iron-black mineral of metallic luster, occurring in small orthorhombic crystals, also massive. It contains sulphur, arsenic, copper, and often silver.

A mineral of the pyroxene group, orthorhombic in crystallization; often fibrous and massive; color grayish white or greenish. It is a silicate of magnesia with some iron. Bronzite is a ferriferous variety.

A mineral, commonly of a yellowish green (pistachio) color, occurring granular, massive, columnar, and in monoclinic crystals. It is a silicate of alumina, lime, and oxide of iron, or manganese.

A massive piece of stone or wood laid immediately on the abacus of the capital of a column or pillar; -- now called architrave.