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Native sulphide of manganese a reddish brown or brownish black mineral.

A blue isometric mineral, characteristic of some volcani

acious birds of the family Falconidæ. They differ from the true falcons in lacking the prominent tooth and notch of the bill, and in having shorter and less pointed wings. Many are of large size and grade into the eagles. Some, as the goshawk, were formerly trained like falcons. In a more general sense the word is not…

A miner's name for freestone. Raymond. Hazel earth, soil suitable for the hazel; a fertile loam. -- Hazel grouse (Zoöl.), a European grouse (Bonasa betulina), allied to the American ruffed grouse. -- Hazel hoe, a kind of grub hoe. -- Witch hazel. See Witch-hazel, and Hamamelis.

The most prominent or important member of any organized body; the chief; the leader; as, the head of a college, a school, a church, a state, and the like. "Their princes and heads." Robynson (More's Utopia). The heads of the chief sects of philosophy. Tillotson. Your head I him appoint. Milton.

Apparatus above ground at the mouth of a mine or deep well.

A gallery, drift, or adit in a mine; also, the end of a drift or gallery; the vein above a drift.

attention to; to listen to; to heed; to accept the doctrines or advice of; to obey; to examine; to try in a judicial court; as, to hear a recitation; to hear a class; the case will be heard to-morrow.

Without a heart. You have left me heartess; mine is in your bosom. J. Webster.

te, -- so called because of its high specific gravity as compared with other non-metallic minerals.

hirk obligations. I myself sometimes, leaving the fear of God on the left hand and hiding mine honor in my necessity, am fain to shuffle, to hedge and to lurch. Shak.

That which is elevated; an eminence; a hill or mountain; as, Alpine heights. Dryden.

A gaseous element found in the atmospheres of the sun and earth and in some rare minerals.

A mineral of a yellowish color, consisting chiefly of silica, glucina, manganese, and iron, with a little sulphur.

A composition made from blood, mixed with mineral or vegetable substances, used for making buttons, door knobs, etc.

The figure of plants in minerals or fossils.

To form the figures of plants in; -- said in reference to minerals. See Arborized. Herborized stones contain fine mosses. Fourcroy (Trans.)

berately and pertinaciously refuses to believe one or more of the articles of faith "determined by the authority of the universal church." Addis & Arnold.

According to the principles of interpretation; as, a verse of Scripture was examined hermeneutically.