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A mass of stone or iron which has fallen to the earth from space; an aërolite.

A stone, or metallic mass, which has fallen to the earth from distant space; a meteorite; a meteoric stone.

A meteorite, or similar rude stone artificially shaped, held sacred or worshiped as of divine origin.

gether; resembling breccia in appearance. The brecciated appearance of many specimens [of meteorites]. H. A. Newton.

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

(Astron.) See Shooting star. -- Falling stone, a stone falling through the atmosphere; a meteorite; an aërolite. -- Falling tide, the ebb tide. -- Falling weather, a rainy season. [Colloq.] Bartlett.

Meteoric iron; a meteorite consisting of metallic iron without stony matter.

able. -- Meteoric iron (Chem.), iron forming a large, and often the chief, ingredient of meteorites. It invariably contains a small amount of nickel and cobalt. Cf. Meteorite. -- Pig iron, the form in which cast iron is made at the blast furnace, being run into molds, called pigs. -- Reduced iron. See under Reduced.…

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s, meteoric fame. "Meteoric politician." Craik. Meteoric iron, Meteoric stone. (Min.) See Meteorite. -- Meteoric paper, a substance of confervoid origin found floating in the air, and resembling bits of coarse paper; -- so called because formerly supposed to fall from meteors. -- Meteoric showers, periodical exhibiti…

A meteoric stone; an aërolite; a meteorite.

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

A meteorite consisting solely of metallic iron.

A kind of meteorite. See under Meteorite.

r or multitude, as of people in motion, or sometimes of inanimate objects; as, a swarm of meteorites. Those prodigious swarms that had settled themselves in every part of it [Italy]. Addison.

A meteorite or aërolite. [Obs.] Hutton.

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