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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.

A kind of lithography by which the effect of a tinted drawing is produced, as if made with India ink.

A stone so formed by nature as to appear as if cut by art.

Pertaining to, or performed by, lithotomy.

One who performs the operation of cutting for stone in the bladder, or one who is skilled in the operation.

The operation, art, or practice of cutting for stone in the bladder.

The operation of crushing a stone in the bladder with an instrument called lithotriptor or lithotrite; lithotrity.

Same as Lithontriptic.

One skilled in breaking and extracting stone in the bladder.

An instrument for triturating the stone in the bladder; a lithotrite.

A lithotriptor.

A lithotriptist.

The operation of breaking a stone in the bladder into small pieces capable of being voided.

A kind of stereotype plate made by lithotypy; also, that which in printed from it. See Lithotypy.

Of, pertaining to, or produced by, lithotypy.

The art or process of making a kind of hard, stereotypeplate, by pressing into a mold, taken from a page of type or other matter, a composition of gum shell-lac and sand of a fine quality, together with a little tar and linseed oil, all in a heated state.

Petrified wood. [Obs.]

Of or pertaining to Lithuania (formerly a principality united with Poland, but now Russian and Prussian territory).