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imes used as a gem. It is a silicate of glucina, and receives its name from its deceptive similarity to quartz.

covered by a resident of Bologna. The term is sometimes applied to other compounds having similar properties. -- Metallic phosphorus (Chem.), an allotropic modification of phosphorus, obtained as a gray metallic crystalline substance, having very inert chemical properties. It is obtained by heating ordinary phosphorus…

A photomechanical process similar to collotype.

n old mode of dressing men's side hair in a form likened to a pigeon's wings; also, a wig similarly shaped.

A vertical series of alternate disks of two dissimilar metals, as copper and zinc, laid up with disks of cloth or paper moistened with acid water between them, for producing a current of electricity; -- commonly called Volta's pile, voltaic pile, or galvanic pile.

The property possessed by some substances of crystallizing in closely similar forms while unlike in chemical composition.

son sumac, and is also very poisonous. The juice of the poison sumac also forms a lacquer similar to that of Japan.

rs, three of a kind, full houses, four of a kind, and five of a kind (the highest throw), similar to poker; also, the dice used in this game, esp. when marked with the ace, king, queen, jack, ten, and nine instead of the usual digits.

ions, as, for example, attraction and repulsion in the opposite parts of a magnet, the dissimilar phenomena corresponding to the different sides of a polarized ray of light, etc.

A similar game played on the ice, or on a prepared floor, by players wearing skates.

wood cut into semifluid metal, an intaglio matrix is produced: and from this matrix, in a similar way, a polytype in relief is obtained. Hansard.

- popularly so called from its peculiar drumming sound in action. Sometimes, any of other similar automatic cannons.

The substance of apples, or of similar fruit, crushed by grinding.

A small European fish, similar to the cod, but of inferior quality. Poor-john and apple pies are all our fare. Sir J. Harrington.

ish flower and an enormous root. It is common in sandy places in the United States. (b) A similar tropical American plant (I. fastigiata) which it is thought may have been the original stock of the sweet potato.

Frequently repeated or customary action; habitual performance; a succession of acts of a similar kind; usage; habit; custom; as, the practice of rising early; the practice of making regular entries of accounts; the practice of daily exercise. A heart . . . exercised with covetous practices. 2 Pet. ii. 14.…

An instrument, similar to the phenakistoscope, for presenting to view, or projecting upon a screen, images the natural motions of real objects.

A judicial decision which serves as a rule for future determinations in similar or analogous cases; an authority to be followed in courts of justice; forms of proceeding to be followed in similar cases. Wharton.

A solid whose bases or ends are any similar, equal, and parallel plane figures, and whose sides are parallelograms.

The tine of a fork, or of a similar instrument; as, a fork of two or three prongs.