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A soft, earthy, clayey mineral, of whitish or grayish color.

The exterior line which determines the form or magnitude of a body; outline; periphery. Ray.

Adhesive; -- said of a roof in a mine to which coal clings.

ed; that (as land) to which any one intends to establish a right; as a settler's claim; a miner's claim. [U.S. & Australia]

Claminess; moisture. [R.] "The clam of death." Carlyle.

lassic plains. Mrs. Hemans. The epithet classical, as applied to ancient authors, is determined less by the purity of their style than by the period at which they wrote. Brande & C. He [Atterbury] directed the classical studies of the undergraduates of his college. Macaulay.

the result of the wearing down and decomposition, in part, of rocks containing aluminous minerals, as granite. Lime, magnesia, oxide of iron, and other ingredients, are often present as impurities.

A character used in musical notation to determine the position and pitch of the scale as represented on the staff.

Any critical period. It is your lot, as it was mine, to live during one of the grand climacterics of the world. Southey. Grand or Great climacteric, the sixty-third year of human life. I should hardly yield my rigid fibers to be regenerated by them; nor begin, in my grand climacteric, to squall in their new accents, or…

r wither. [Obs.] If thou speak'st false, Upon the next tree shalt thou hang alive, Till famine cling thee. Shak.

Pertaining to the shin bone. Cnemial crest, a crestlike prominence on the proximal end of the tibia of birds and some reptiles.

A mineral of a nearly silver-white color, composed of arsenic, sulphur, and cobalt.

The mineral black tourmaline or schorl; -- so called by the Cornish miners. Raymond.

bitrarily in an algebraic, expression, the value of the coefficient being afterwards determined by the conditions of the problem.

One of the rough pillars of stone or coal left to support the roof of a mine.

ted to be a subject of judicial investigation; capable of being judicially heard and determined. Cognizable both in the ecclesiastical and secular courts. Ayliffe.

iscourse, and a direct tendency of all the parts of it to the argument in hand, are most eminently to be found in him. Locke.

as that worn by certain judges in England. [Writting also quoif.] From point and saucy ermine down To the plain coif and russet gown. H. Brocke. The judges, . . . althout they are not of the first magnitude, nor need be of the degree of the coif, yet are they considerable. Bacon.

- Ruhmkorff's coil (Elec.), an induction coil, sometimes so called from Ruhmkorff (, a prominent manufacturer of the apparatus.

Mineral coal charred, or depriver of its bitumen, sulphur, or other volatile matter by roasting in a kiln or oven, or by distillation, as in gas works. It is lagerly used where [Written also coak.] Gas coke, the coke formed in gas retorts, as distinguished from that made in ovens.