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The heavy interior portion of the earth, within the lithosphere.

of the fact that prepared bitumen is rendered insoluble by exposure to light, as in photolithography.

Any bivalve mollusk (Saxicava, Lithodomus, etc.) which bores into limestone and similar substances.

The nucleus or central part of the earth, forming most of its mass; -- disting. from lithosphere, hydrosphere, etc.

A chromolithograph.

A sheet printed in colors by any process, as a chromolithograph. See Chromolithograph.

A grooved sound or staff used for directing instruments, as lithontriptic forceps, etc.; a director.

A moth of the family Lithosidæ; -- so called from its livery- like colors.

A cutting instrument used in lithotomy.

. See Heath grouse. -- Gray mill or millet (Bot.), a name of several plants of the genus Lithospermum; gromwell. -- Gray mullet (Zoöl.) any one of the numerous species of the genus Mugil, or family Mugilidæ, found both in the Old World and America; as the European species (M. capito, and M. auratus), the American str…

A plant of the genus Lithospermum (L. arvense), anciently used, because of its stony pericarp, in the cure of gravel. The German gromwell is the Stellera. [Written also gromill.]

c negatives to hardened gelatin plates from which impressions are produced on paper as by lithography.

larval stages, burrow in and eat the parenchyma of leaves; as, the pear-tree leaf miner (Lithocolletis geminatella). -- Leaf notcher (Zoöl.), a pale bluish green beetle (Artipus Floridanus), which, in Florida, eats the edges of the leaves of orange trees. -- Leaf roller (Zoöl.), the larva of any tortricid moth which…

See Lithontriptic.

A small European falcon (Falco lithofalco, or F. æsalon).

A substitute for lithography, in which metallic plates are used instead of stone. Knight.

ht to be of animal nature. They are now considered corallines of the genera Melobesia and Lithothamnion.

A picture produced in oils by a process analogous to that of lithographic printing.

d usually with instruments, with a view to restore soundness or health, as in amputation, lithotomy, etc.

with the mineralogical and chemical composition of rocks, and with their classification: lithology.