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Same as Necronite.

A fibrous variety of brucite.

also elsewhere, in grayish or greenish masses having a greasy luster, as the variety elæolite. It is a silicate of aluminia, soda, and potash.

A mineral of a copper-red color and metallic luster; an arsenide of nickel; -- called also coppernickel, kupfernickel.

A Silurian fossil, formerly supposed to consist of eggs.

A variety of siliceous slate, of which hones are made; razor stone; Turkey stone; hone stone; whet slate.

A fossil of the genus Nummulites and allied genera.

A genus of extinct Tertiary Foraminifera, having a thin, flat, round shell, containing a large number of small chambers arranged spirally.

Indistinct; slurred over. [Obs.] "Obscure and oblite mention." Fuller.

To wear out; to remove or destroy utterly by any means; to render imperceptible; as. to obliterate ideas; to obliterate the monuments of antiquity. The harsh and bitter feelings of this or that experience are slowly obliterated. W. Black.

The act of obliterating, or the state of being obliterated; extinction. Sir. M. Hale.

Tending or serving to obliterate.

A fossil tooth colored a bright blue by phosphate of iron. It is used as an imitation of turquoise, and hence called bone turquoise.

A variety of limestone, consisting of small round grains, resembling the roe of a fish. It sometimes constitutes extensive beds, as in the European Jurassic. See the Chart of Geology.

A genus of living Foraminifera, forming broad, thin, circular disks, containing numerous small chambers.

The fossil remains of a bird.

A massive impure apatite, or calcium phosphate.

One of the small bones or particles of calcareous or other hard substance in the internal ear of vertebrates, and in the auditory organs of many invertebrates; an ear stone. Collectively, the otoliths are called ear sand and otoconite.

A micaceous mineral occurring in small scales. It is characteristic of certain crystalline schists.

A fossil egg.