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A gown. [Obs.] She came often in a gite of red. Chaucer.

A cannibal. W. Taylor.

A member of the Areopagus. Acts xvii. 34.

A variety of pyroxene, usually of a black or dark green color, occurring in igneous rocks, such as basalt; -- also used instead of the general term pyroxene.

Native carbonate of manganese; rhodochrosite.

A rock consisting of granular red garnet, light green smaragdite, and common hornblende; -- so called in reference to its beauty.

A variety of scapolite.

An iron-black mineral of metallic luster, occurring in small orthorhombic crystals, also massive. It contains sulphur, arsenic, copper, and often silver.

A kind of marble or alabaster, sometimes used for windows on account of its transparency.

A fossil coral resembling Fungia.

One of a pair of broad plates, developed from the outer maxillipeds of crabs, and forming a cover for the other mouth organs.

The common designation of one a sect founded by the Rev. Edward Irving (about 1830), who call themselves the Catholic Apostolic Church. They are highly ritualistic in worship, have an elaborate hierarchy of apostles, prophets, etc., and look for the speedy coming of Christ.

A tin-white arsenide of iron, isomorphous with arsenopyrite.

A borate of iron and magnesia, occurring in fibrous masses of a blackish green color.

A mineral of blackish lead-gray color and metallic luster, generally of a foliated massive structure; foliated tellurium. It is a telluride of lead and gold.

The part of the carapace of a crustacean situated behind the cervical groove.

One of the plates which in some Crustacea inclose a cavity wherein the eggs are hatched.

An orange-yellow variety of the mineral thorite, found in Norway.

A soldier belonging to a phalanx. [Obs.]

A sulphide of silver and iron, occurring in soft flexible laminæ varying in color from brown to black.