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sisting of, or covered with, laminæ, or thin plates, scales, or layers, one over another; laminated.

Laminate. Laminated arch (Arch.), a timber arch made of layers of bent planks secured by treenails.

Formed of, or having, two laminæ, or thin plates.

Placed between, or containing, laminæ or plates.

To retard the motion of, as a carriage, by preventing one or more of its wheels from revolving, either by means of a chain or otherwise. [Obs.]

apparatus. -- Mineral charcoal, a term applied to silky fibrous layers of charcoal, interlaminated in beds of ordinary bituminous coal; -- known to miners as mother of coal.

A dark green or bronze-colored laminated variety of pyroxene, common in certain igneous rocks.

Laminated, but restricted to the variety of laminated structure found in crystalline schist, as mica schist, etc.; schistose.

The state of being interlaminated.

A laminated, granular, siliceous rocks, often occurring in regions where the diamond is found.

The process of laminating, or the state of being laminated.

A thin, laminated variety of serpentine, usually of a pale green color.

A kind of feldspar consisting of a laminated intertexture of albite and orthoclase, usually of different colors. -- Per*thit"ic, a.

crystals, with a prismatic angle of nearly 90º, and also in massive forms which are often laminated. It varies in color from white to dark green and black, and includes many varieties differing in color and composition, as diopside, malacolite, salite, coccolite, augite, etc. They are all silicates of lime and magnesia…

The bark of a rosaceous tree (Quillaja Saponaria), native of Chili. The bark is finely laminated, and very heavy with alkaline substances, and is used commonly by the Chilians instead of soap. Also called soap bark.

A fine-grained sedimentary rock of a thin, laminated, and often friable, structure. Bituminous shale. See under Bituminous.

Formed into a succession of flakes; laminated. Nodules . . . that are tabular and plated. Woodward.

A kind of laminated shale or sandstone belonging to some of the layers of the Upper Silurian.

he melting glaciers; -- sometimes applied to alluvium of an upper river terrace, when not laminated, and appearing as if formed in the same manner.