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Inland. Sir T. Browne.

The fourth joint of a typical appendage of Crustacea.

Molybdic ocher.

A grantitoid variety of rhyolite, common in Nevada.

Agalmatolite; -- so called because sometimes carved by the Chinese into the form of pagodas. See Agalmatolite.

The sixth joint of a typical leg of a crustacean; usually, the penultimate joint.

The basal portion, or two proximal and more or less consolidated segments, of an appendage of a crustacean.

One of the peculiar rodlike corpuscles found in the integument of certain Turbellaria. They are filled with a soft granular substance.

Hidden from the mental or intellectual view; secret; abstruse; as, recondite causes of things.

A minute smooth rodlike or fusiform structure found in the tissues of many Turbellaria.

occurring in orthorhombic crystals. It is a hydrous arseniate of iron. [Written also skorodite.]

Half hidden or half covered; said of the head of an insect when half covered by the shield of the thorax.

See Scorodite.

A mineral of a bright metallic luster and tin-white to pale lead-gray color. It consist of arsenic and cobalt.

A green foliated kind of amphibole, observed in eclogite and some varietis of gabbro.

A person in some way remarkable with regard to the number four, as one born on the fourth day of the month, or one who reverenced four persons in the Godhead. Smart.

Anhydrous sodium sulphate, a mineral of a white or brown color and vitreous luster.

A manganese phosphate near triplite, but containing hydroxyl instead of fluorine.

A salt of vanadious acid, analogous to a nitrite or a phosphite.

Either one of two pigments (called blue verditer, and green verditer) which are made by treating copper nitrate with calcium carbonate (in the form of lime, whiting, chalk, etc.) They consist of hydrated copper carbonates analogous to the minerals azurite and malachite. Verditer blue, a pale greenish blue color, like t…