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A variety of hephelite, usually massive, of greasy luster, and gray to reddish color. Elæolite syenite, a kind of syenite characterized by the presence of elæolite.

See Elæolite.

A choice or select body; the flower; as, the élite of society.

A mineral consisting of both the chloride and the bromide of silver.

A fossil insect.

Pudding stone. [Obs.] Kirwan.

A black, greenish, or brownish mineral of the chrysolite group. It is a silicate of iron.

A silicate of alumina, of fibrous or columnar structure. It is like andalusite in composition; -- called also sillimanite, and bucholizite.

A white crystallized mineral resin from the Fichtelgebirge, Bavaria.

To scold; to quarrel. [Prov. Eng.] Grose.

Strife; dispute; abusive or upbraiding talk, as in fliting; wrangling. [Obs. or Scot. & Prov. Eng.]

A tubelike marking, occuring in sandstone and other strata.

A variety of apatite from Wheal Franco in Devonshire.

A plant of the genus Atriplex; orache. Gray.

A rudimentary form of crystallite, spherical in shape.

A whitish, granular rock, consisting of feldspar and quartz intimately mixed; -- sometimes called whitestone, and leptynite.

Any species of slate suitable to be written on.

One of numerous species of slender and delicate fossils, of the genus Graptolites and allied genera, found in the Silurian rocks. They belong to an extinct group (Graptolithina) supposed to be hydroids.

Native salt; sodium chloride.

A measure of liquids, containing a hundred liters; equal to a tenth of a cubic meter, nearly 26