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Copper pyrites, or yellow copper ore; a common ore of opper, containing copper, iron, and sulphur. It occurs massive and in tetragonal crystals of a bright brass yellow color.

Full of love and good will; benevolent; kind. Be thy intents wicked or charitable, . . . . . . I will speak to thee. Shak.

The quality of being charitable; the exercise of charity.

In a charitable manner.

put the best construction on the words and actions of others. The highest exercise of charity is charity towards the uncharitable. Buckminster.

to granular in structure. They are hydrous silicates of alumina, iron, and magnesia. Chlorite slate, a schistose or slaty rock consisting of alumina, iron, and magnesia.

Pertaining to, or containing, chlorite; as, chloritic sand.

A meteoric stone characterized by the presence of chondrules.

lar; pertaining to, or having the granular structure characteristic of, the class of meteorites called chondrites.

An inflammation of cartilage.

Like ashes; having the color of ashes, -- as the cortical substance of the brain.

The quality or state of being circular; a circular form.

Clearness; splendor. [Obs.] Beau. & Fl.

Clearness; brightness; splendor. Floods, in whose more than crystal clarity, Innumerable virgin graces row. Beaumont.

Joint inheritance.

A coheir.

The state or quality of being columnar.

A variety of the mineral domeykite, or copper arsenide, from the Condurra mine in Cornwall, England.

Nutritious by force of habit; -- said of certain kinds of food. [Obs.] Crabb.

sorrowful for sin because it is displeasing to God; humbly and thoroughly penitent. A contrite heart, O God, thou wilt not despise. Ps. li. 17. Be penitent, and for thy fault contrite. Milton.