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Consisting of two letters; as, a biliteral root of a Sanskrit verb. Sir W. Jones. -- n.

The property or state of being biliteral.

A genus of herbs (Blitum) with a fleshy calyx. Blitum capitatum is the strawberry blite.

A variety of datolite, usually having a botryoidal structure.

An aërolite. [R.]

An olive-green fibrous variety of hornblende.

ation called Christians or Disciples of Christ. They themselves repudiate the term Campbellite as a nickname. See Christian, 3.

A friar of a mendicant order (the Order of Our Lady of Mount Carmel) established on Mount Carmel, in Syria, in the twelfth century; a White Friar.

Of or pertaining to the order of Carmelites.

A hydrous chloride of potassium and magnesium, sometimes found associated with deposits of rock salt.

A general term for a fossil fruit, nut, or seed.

The hundredth part of a liter; a measure of volume or capacity equal to a little more than six tenths (0.6102) of a cubic inch, or one third (0.338) of a fluid ounce.

A hydrous silicate of magnesium, allied to serpentine, occurring in waxlike masses of a yellow or greenish color.

A variety of feldspar found in crystals in the county of Chester, Pennsylvania.

A variety of andalusite; -- called also macle. The tesselated apperance of a cross section is due to the symmetrical arrangement of impurities in the crystal.

A mineral, composed of silica, magnesia, and iron, of a yellow to green color. It is common in certain volcanic rocks; -- called also olivine and peridot. Sometimes used as a gem. The name was also early used for yellow varieties of tourmaline and topaz.

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

A thickened glandular portion of the body of the adult earthworm, consisting of several united segments modified for reproductive purposes.

To unite or coalesce. [Obs.] Let them continue to coalite. Bolingbroke.

A granular variety of pyroxene, green or white in color.