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sorrowful for sin because it is displeasing to God; humbly and thoroughly penitent. A contrite heart, O God, thou wilt not despise. Ps. li. 17. Be penitent, and for thy fault contrite. Milton.

Deep sorrow and penitence for sin; contrition.

See Iolite.

d in forming a correct judgment respecting them. Of the diseases of the mind there is no criterion. Donne. Inferences founded on such enduring criteria. Sir G. C. Lewis.

The red oxide of copper; red copper; an important ore of copper, occurring massive and in isometric crystals.

A kind of Muscovite, or potash mica, containing water.

A borosilicate of lime, first found at Danbury, Conn. It is near the topaz in form. Dana.

A stone or mineral on or in which are branching figures resembling shrubs or trees, produced by a foreign mineral, usually an oxide of manganese, as in the moss agate; also, a crystallized mineral having an arborescent form, e. g., gold or silver; an arborization.

Worn out.

An igneous, crystalline in structure, consisting essentially of a triclinic feldspar and hornblende. It includes part of what was called greenstone.

Depressed in spirits; disheartened; daunted. -- Dis*pir"it*ed*ly, adv. -- Dis*pir"it*ed, n.

A dark-colored, basic, igneous rock, composed essentially of pyroxene and a triclinic feldspar with magnetic iron. By many authors it is considered equivalent to a coarse-grained basalt.

A brownish black native hydrocarbon occurring in elastic or jellylike masses.

A mineral resin, of a blackish brown color, occurring in soft, flexible masses; -- called also mineral caoutchouc, and elastic bitumen.

Considered as having done sufficient public service, and therefore honorably discharged. [Obs.] Evelyn.

The portion of each apodeme developed from the interepimeral membrane in certain crustaceans.

A hydrous phosphate of alumina and manganese. It is generally of a rose-pink color, -- whence the name.

A foot consisting of three long syllables and one short syllable.

A colorless crystalline substance, C4H6.(OH)4, of a sweet, cooling taste, extracted from certain lichens, and obtained by the decomposition of erythrin; -- called also erythrol, erythroglucin, erythromannite, pseudorcin, cobalt bloom, and under the name phycite obtained from the alga Protococcus vulgaris. It is a tetra…

A metallic mineral, a selenide of copper and silver; -- so called by Berzelius on account of its being found soon after the discovery of the metal selenium.