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Any very small prominence.

Glassy; shining like glass. [Obs.] "Minerva's glassful shield." Marston.

A mineral, consisting of the sulphates of soda and lime.

A metallic mineral having a grayish tin-white color, and containing cobalt and iron, with sulphur and arsenic.

The green mineral characteristic of the greensand of the chalk and other formations. It is a hydrous silicate of iron and potash. See Greensand.

A mineral of a dark bluish color, related to amphibole. It is characteristic of certain crystalline rocks.

d supposed to be a colony of microscopic algæ. -- Globe of compression (Mil.), a kind of mine producing a wide crater; -- called also overcharged mine. -- Globe daisy (Bot.), a plant or flower of the genus Globularing, common in Europe. The flowers are minute and form globular heads. -- Globe sight, a form of front…

One of the two prominences at the posterior extremity of the frog of the horse's foot.

he free state, but is always combined, usually with silica or alumina, or both; as in the minerals phenacite, chrysoberyl, beryl or emerald, euclase, and danalite. It was named from its oxide glucina, which was known long before the element was isolated. Symbol Gl. Atomic weight 9.1. Called also beryllium. [Formerly wr…

ng; over abundance; as, a glut of the market. A glut of those talents which raise men to eminence. Macaulay.

A white, crystalline, nitrogenous substance, produced by the action of hydroxylamine on glyoxal, and belonging to the class of oximes; also, any one of a group of substances resembling glyoxime proper, and of which it is a type. See Oxime.

A rhombohedral zeolitic mineral, related in form and composition to chabazite.

ed by the Rosicrucians to inhabit the inner parts of the earth, and to be the guardian of mines, quarries, etc.

off. (c) To die. Shak. (d) To explode or be discharged; -- said of gunpowder, of a gun, a mine, etc. (e) To find a purchaser; to be sold or disposed of.

That part of a mine from which the mineral has been partially or wholly removed; the waste left in old workings; -- called also gob . To work the goaf or gob, to remove the pillars of mineral matter previously left to support the roof, and replace them with props. Ure.

Resembling or befitting a god or God; divine; hence, preeminently good; as, godlike virtue. -- God"like`ness, n.

loplites rupestris, of the Great Lakes and Mississippi Valley; -- so called from their prominent eyes.

Having prominent and distorted or rolling eyes. Ascham.

Prominent; staring, as the eye.

A carangoid oceanic fish (Trachurops crumenophthalmus), having very large and prominent eyes; -- called also goggle-eye, big-eyed scad, and cicharra.