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A fossil millepore.

capillary crystals, also in incrustations of a bronze yellow; -- sometimes called hair pyrites.

A Franciscan friar.

To write incorrectly.

A Jew bound by a vow to lave the hair uncut, to abstain from wine and strong drink, and to practice extraordinary purity of life and devotion, the obligation being for life, or for a certain time. The word is also used adjectively.

The state of a Nazarite.

A Nazarite.

A hard compact mineral, of a dark green color, formerly worn as a remedy for diseases of the kidneys, whence its name; kidney stone; a kind of jade. See Jade.

Any mollusk of the genus Nerita.

One who gathered news for, and wrote, news-letters. Macaulay.

A salt of nitrous acid. Amyl nitrite, a yellow oily volatile liquid, used in medicine as a depressant and a vaso-dilator. Its inhalation produces an instantaneous flushing of the face.

A granular crystalline rock consisting essentially of a triclinic feldspar (as labradorite) and hypersthene.

Titanium dioxide occurring in acute octahedral crystals.

A meteorite characterized by the presence of but a small amount of metallic iron.

To exceed or excel in writing.

A waxlike mineral resin; -- sometimes called native paraffin, and mineral wax.

A variety of albite, whitish and slightly iridescent like a pigeon's neck.

Skilled. [Obs.]

Evident; visible. Phanerite series (Geol.), the uppermost part of the earth's crust, consisting of deposits produced by causes in obvious operation.

A hydrous arsenate of iron occurring in green or yellowish green cubic crystals; cube ore.