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eon hawk. (Zoöl.) (a) A small American falcon (Falco columbarius). The adult male is dark slate-blue above, streaked with black on the back; beneath, whitish or buff, streaked with brown. The tail is banded. (b) The American sharp-shinned hawk (Accipiter velox, or fuscus). -- Pigeon hole. (a) A hole for pigeons to ent…

A kind of clay slate, carved by the Indians into tobacco pipes. Cf. Catlinite.

aper, while the hand rests on the instrument and it is allowed to move, are sometimes translated as of oracular or supernatural import.

Resembling plumbago; consisting of, or containing, plumbago; as, a plumbaginous slate.

ng iron, an iron burnisher; esp., a small smoothing iron used in laundries. -- Polishing slate. (a) A gray or yellow slate, found in Bohemia and Auvergne, and used for polishing glass, marble, and metals. (b) A kind of hone or whetstone; hone slate. -- Polishing snake, a tool used in cleaning lithographic stones. --…

To translate from one language into another; as, to render Latin into English.

Intercalated with slate; -- said of a seam of coal. Raymond.

A tool for trimming the edges of roofing slates.

Thin boards for shealting, as above the rafters, and under the shingles or slates, and for similar purposes.

A kind of chopping instrument for trimming the edges of roofing slates.

a foliated structure (see Foliation) and hence admitting of ready division into slabs or slates. The common kinds are mica schist, and hornblendic schist, consisting chiefly of quartz with mica or hornblende and often feldspar.

Of a slate color.

A sea slater.

A shingle; also, a slate for roofing. [Obs.] Holland.

A variety of blue slate.

A variety of calcite, so called from its slaty structure; -- called also slate spar.

To set on; to incite. See 3d Slate. [Prov. Eng.]

The act of covering with slate, slates, or a substance resembling slate; the work of a slater.

Resembling slate; having the nature, appearance, or properties, of slate; composed of thin parallel plates, capable of being separated by splitting; as, a slaty color or texture. Slaty cleavage (Min.), cleavage, as of rocks, into thin leaves or plates, like those of slate; -- applied especially to those cases in which…

A kind of hone slate or whetstone obtained in Scotland.