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A hydrous arsenate of iron occurring in green or yellowish green cubic crystals; cube ore.

(min.) A massive variety of apatite.

Pertaining to phosphorite; resembling, or of the nature of, phosphorite.

The quality or state of being piacular; criminality; wickedness. De Quincey.

A dark green igneous rock, consisting largely of chrysolite, with hornblende, augite, biotite, etc.

A writer of plays; a dramatist; a playwright. Lecky.

Same as Pleuron.

Of or pertaining to pleurisy; as, pleuritic symptoms.

Pleurisy.

Of or pertaining to the pleural and peritoneal membranes or cavities, or to the pleuroperitoneum.

The pleural and peritoneal membranes, or the membrane lining the body cavity and covering the surface of the inclosed viscera; the peritoneum; -- used especially in the case of those animals in which the body cavity is not divided.

That quality or condition of a body in virtue of which it exhibits opposite, or contrasted, properties or powers, in opposite, or contrasted, parts or directions; or a condition giving rise to a contrast of properties corresponding to a contrast of positions, as, for example, attraction and repulsion in the opposite pa…

Of a mean spirit; cowardly; base. -- Poor"-spir`it*ed*ness, n.

r with, the people at large; good will or favor proceeding from the people; as, the popularity of a law, statesman, or a book. A popularity which has lasted down to our time. Macaulay.

Any coral of the genus Porites, or family Poritidæ.

An important genus of reef-building corals having small twelve- rayed calicles, and a very porous coral. Some species are branched, others grow in large massive or globular forms.

A rock with a porphyritic structure; as, augite porphyrite.

Relating to, or resembling, porphyry, that is, characterized by the presence of distinct crystals, as of feldspar, quartz, or augite, in a relatively fine-grained base, often aphanitic or cryptocrystalline.

The state of being later or subsequent; as, posteriority of time, or of an event; -- opposed to priority.

from an ancestor of a generation; descendants; -- contrasted with ancestry; as, the posterity of Abraham. If [the crown] should not stand in thy posterity. Shak.