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A zeolitic mineral, grayish white or yellowish, occuring in delicate groups of crystals, also fibrous massive. It is a hydrous silicate of alumina, lime, and soda.

A variety of calcite, or calcium carbonate, consisting of aggregated globular concretions about the size of a pea; -- called also peastone, peagrit.

Composed of, containing, or resembling, pisolite.

Consolidated beforehand.

To consolidate anew or again.

The act or process of reconsolidating; the state of being reconsolidated.

Pertaining to, or designating, a complex red dyestuff (called rosolic acid) which is analogous to rosaniline and aurin. It is produced by oxidizing a mixture of phenol and cresol, as a dark red amorphous mass, C20H16O3, which forms weak salts with bases, and stable ones with acids. Called also methyl aurin, and, former…

Native boric acid, found in saline incrustations on the borders of hot springs near Sasso, in the territory of Florence.

Partially solid.

The fifth power of a number; as, a is the sursolid of a, or 32 that of 2. [R.] Hutton.

separated from a complex object, or from other ideas which naturally accompany it; as the solidity of marble when contemplated apart from its color or figure. -- Abstract terms, those which express abstract ideas, as beauty, whiteness, roundness, without regarding any object in which they exist; or abstract terms are…

ncretion; coherence of separate particles; as, the accretion of particles so as to form a solid mass.

A white crystalline solid, from ammonia by replacement of an equivalent of hydrogen by acetyl.

The act of becoming aërified, or of changing from a solid or liquid form into an aëriform state; the state of being aëriform.

e rationale of our passions seems to me very necessary for all who would affect them upon solid and pure principles.

In gasoline-engine motor vehicles, the cooling of the cylinder by increasing its radiating surface by means of ribs or radiators, and placing it so that it is exposed to a current of air. Cf. Water cooling. -- Air"-cooled`, a.

Erected in the air; having no solid foundation; chimerical; as, an air-built castle.

Without reality; having no solid foundation; empty; trifling; visionary. "Airy fame." Shak. Empty sound, and airy notions. Roscommon.

f eggs and of the serum of blood, and is found in other animal substances, both fluid and solid, also in many plants. It is soluble in water is coagulated by heat ad by certain chemical reagents. Acid albumin, a modification of albumin produced by the action of dilute acids. It is not coagulated by heat. -- Alkali alb…

the sphenoid; relating to a bone in the base of the skull, which in the adult is often consolidated with the sphenoid; as, alisphenoid bone; alisphenoid canal.