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A piece of petrified dung; a fossil excrement.

A mineral substance or petrifaction, in the form of coral.

untries taste is perphaps too exclusively national, in Germany it is certainly too cosmopolite. Sir W. Hamilton.

See Cosmopolitan.

A native sulphide of copper, occuring in masses of a dark blue color; -- hence called indigo copper.

A mineral occuring in silky fibers of a lavender blue color. It is related to hornblende and is essentially a silicate of iron and soda; -- called also blue asbestus. A silicified form, in which the fibers penetrating quartz are changed to oxide of iron, is the yellow brown tiger-eye of the jewelers.…

A fluoride of sodium and aluminum, found in Greenland, in white cleavable masses; -- used as a source of soda and alumina.

but marking the first step in the crystallization process. According to their form crystallites are called trichites, belonites, globulites, etc.

A mineral occuring in octahedral crystals, also massive, of a reddish color. It is a silicate of iron, zinc manganese, and glicinum, containing sulphur.

borosilicate of lime commonly occuring in glassy,, greenish crystals. [Written also datholite.]

A sulphide of chromium observed in some meteoric irons.

A measure of capacity in the metric system; a cubic volume of ten liters, equal to about 610.24 cubic inches, that is, 2.642 wine gallons.

A measure of capacity or volume in the metric system; one tenth of a liter, equal to 6.1022 cubic inches, or 3.38 fluid ounces.

Same as Decaliter.

Concealment; seclusion; retirement. The delitescence of mental activities. Sir W. Hamilton.

acterized, to speak craniologically, by an extraordinary development of the passion for delitescency. Sir W. Scott.

Lying hid; concealed.

A petrified or fossil shrub, plant, or part of a plant.

Consisting of two letters only; biliteral. Stuart.

A mineral of a green color and pearly luster; a hydrous phosphate of copper.