Word Meanings - AMPHIBOLE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A common mineral embracing many varieties varying in color and in composition. It occurs in monoclinic crystals; also massive, generally with fibrous or columnar structure. The color varies from white to gray, green, brown, and black. It is a silicate of magnesium and calcium, with usually aluminium and iron. Some common varieties are tremolite, actinolite, asbestus, edenite, hornblende (the last name being also used as a general term for the whole species). Amphibole is a constituent of many crystalline rocks, as syenite, diorite, most varieties of trachyte, etc. See Hornblende.

• BELLMETAL
  A hard alloy or bronze, consisting usually of about three parts of copper to one of tin; -- used for making bells. Bell metal ore, a sulphide of tin, copper, and iron; the mineral stannite.
• Belgian
  Of or pertaining to Belgium.
• Beau
  A man who takes great care to dress in the latest fashion; a dandy.
• Bewitchedness
  The state of being bewitched.
• Bemock
  To mock; to ridicule.
• Bedphere
  See Bedfere.
• Colorado beetle
  A yellowish beetle (Doryphora decemlineata), with ten longitudinal, black, dorsal stripes. It has migrated eastwards from its original habitat in Colorado, and is very destructive to the potato plant; -- called also potato beetle and potato bug. S
• Bepommel
  To pommel; to beat, as with a stick; figuratively, to assail or criticise in conversation, or in writing.
• Begemmed
  of Begem
• Trachyte
  An igneous rock, usually light gray in color and breaking with a rough surface. It consists chiefly of orthoclase feldspar with sometimes hornblende and mica.
• Beslabber
  To beslobber.
• Betelguese
  A bright star of the first magnitude, near one shoulder of Orion.
• BENEDICTBENEDICK
  A married man, or a man newly married.
• Belike
  It is likely or probably; perhaps.
• Beautify
  To make or render beautiful; to add beauty to; to adorn; to deck; to grace; to embellish.
• Benching
  of Bench
• Bedrizzle
  To drizzle upon.
• Common
  Belonging or relating equally, or similarly, to more than one; as, you and I have a common interest in the property.
• Beraining
  of Berain

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