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One who is skilled in lithology.

The science which treats of rocks, as regards their mineral constitution and classification, and their mode of occurrence in nature.

Divination by means of stones.

A clay of a fine smooth texture, and very sectile.

Same as Lithontriptic.

Having the quality of, or used for, dissolving or destroying stone in the bladder or kidneys; as, lithontriptic forcéps. -- n.

Same as Lithotriptist.

See Lithotriptor.

Eating or destroying stone; -- applied to various animals which make burrows in stone, as many bivalve mollusks, certain sponges, annelids, and sea urchins. See Lithodomus.

Porcelain impressed with figures which are made distinct by transmitted light, -- as when hung in a window, or used as a lamp shade.

A stone that becomes phosphoric by heat.

Pertaining to lithophosphor; becoming phosphoric by heat.

Same as Photolithography.

A fossil leaf or impression of a leaf.

A spherulitic cavity often with concentric chambers, observed in some volcanic rocks, as in rhyolitic lavas. It is supposed to be produced by expanding gas, whence the name.

A hard, or stony, plantlike organism, as the gorgonians, corals, and corallines, esp. those gorgonians having a calcareous axis. All the lithophytes except the corallines are animals.

Of or pertaining to lithophytes.

Lithophytic.

Any one of various species of moths belonging to the family Lithosidæ. Many of them are beautifully colored.

The solid earth as distinguished from its fluid envelopes, the hydrosphere and atmosphere.