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The name of a group of minerals characterized by highly perfect cleavage, so that they readily separate into very thin leaves, more or less elastic. They differ widely in composition, and vary in color from pale brown or yellow to green or black. The transparent forms are used in lanterns, the doors of stoves, etc., be…

Partaking of the nature of, or consisting of, mica and lime; -- applied to a mica schist containing carbonate of lime.

Pertaining to, or containing, mica; splitting into laminæ or leaves like mica.

terary or classical, in distinction from scientific. "Academic courses." Warburton. "Academical study." Berkeley.

In an academical manner.

The articles of dress prescribed and worn at some colleges and universities.

Of or pertaining to Adam, or resembling him. Adamic earth, a name given to common red clay, from a notion that Adam means red earth.

In an agamic manner.

Pertaining to agronomy, of the management of farms.

Of or relating to alchemy.

In the manner of alchemy.

Expelling or counteracting poison; antidotal.

The quality of being amicable; friendliness; amicableness. Ash.

eeding from, or exhibiting, friendliness; after the manner of friends; peaceable; as, an amicable disposition, or arrangement. That which was most remarkable in this contest was . . . the amicable manner in which it was managed. Prideoux. Amicable action (Law.), an action commenced and prosecuted by amicable consent of…

The quality of being amicable; amicability.

In an amicable manner.

Pertaining to an Attic festival at the naming of a child; -- so called because the friends of the parents carried the child around the hearth and then named it.

Of or relating to anatomy or dissection; as, the anatomic art; anatomical observations. Hume.

In an anatomical manner; by means of dissection.

Pertaining to anthropotomy, or the dissection of human bodies.