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A mineral of a steel-gray to black color and metallic luster, occurring crystallized, often in twin crystals shaped like cogwheels (wheel ore), also massive. It is a sulphide of antimony, lead, and copper.

A hard, compact variety of serpentine found in Rhode Island. It is of a light green color and resembles jade.

A native oxide of manganese, of dark brownish black color. It was named from a Mr. Braun of Gotha.

An old name for a fossil consisting of the petrified teeth and palatal bones of fishes belonging to the family of Pycnodonts (thick teeth), whose remains occur in the oölite and chalk formations; toadstone; -- so named from a notion that it was originally formed in the head of a toad.

A hydrous phosphate of iron occurring in yellow radiated tufts. The phosphorus seriously injures it as an iron ore.

A hydrous sulphate of copper and lead, found in some parts of Caledonia or Scotland.

A zealot. "Simon the Canaanite." Matt. x. 4.

Of or pertaining to Canaan or the Canaanites.

A mineral occurring in hexagonal crystals, also massive, generally of a yellow color, containing silica, alumina, lime, soda, and carbon dioxide.

An explosive consisting essentially of nitroglycerin, wood meal, and some nitrate, as that of sodium.

A red clay from the Upper Missouri region, used by the Indians for their pipes.

lue, or grayish black, variety of spinel. It is also called pleonaste. [Written also ceylonite.]

Same as Anorthite. [R.]

The body of Christian believers. [Obs.] To Walys fled the christianitee Of olde Britons. Chaucer.

Privacy or secrecy. [R.]

To unite. [Obs.]

Coadunation. [R.] Sir M. Hale.

Existence from eternity equally with another eternal being; equal eternity.

The act of knowing; knowledge; perception. I will not be myself nor have cognation Of what I feel: I am all patience. Shak.

Knowing, or apprehending by the understanding; as, cognitive power. South.