Word Meanings - CHRYSOLITE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A mineral, composed of silica, magnesia, and iron, of a yellow to green color. It is common in certain volcanic rocks; -- called also olivine and peridot. Sometimes used as a gem. The name was also early used for yellow varieties of tourmaline and topaz.

• Commonalty
  The common people; those classes and conditions of people who are below the rank of nobility; the commons.
• COMMONSENSE
  See Common sense, under Sense.
• Composing
  of Compose
• Greening
  of Green
• Greenhouse
  A house in which tender plants are cultivated and sheltered from the weather.
• Greenwood
  A forest as it appears is spring and summer.
• Calligraphy
  Fair or elegant penmanship.
• Olivine
  A common name of the yellowish green mineral chrysolite, esp. the variety found in eruptive rocks.
• Yellow
  Being of a bright saffronlike color; of the color of gold or brass; having the hue of that part of the rainbow, or of the solar spectrum, which is between the orange and the green.
• Coloradoite
  Mercury telluride, an iron-black metallic mineral, found in Colorado.
• Yellows
  A disease of the bile in horses, cattle, and sheep, causing yellowness of the eyes; jaundice.
• Commoner
  One of the common people; one having no rank of nobility.
• COMPOSMENTIS
  One who is compos mentis. [Colloq.]
• Compose
  To form by putting together two or more things or parts; to put together; to make up; to fashion.
• Greenback
  One of the legal tender notes of the United States; -- first issued in 1862, and having the devices on the back printed with green ink, to prevent alterations and counterfeits.
• Greenish
  Somewhat green; having a tinge of green; as, a greenish yellow.
• Magnesia
  A light earthy white substance, consisting of magnesium oxide, and obtained by heating magnesium hydrate or carbonate, or by burning magnesium. It has a slightly alkaline reaction, and is used in medicine as a mild antacid laxative. See Magnesium.
• Calliope
  The Muse that presides over eloquence and heroic poetry; mother of Orpheus, and chief of the nine Muses.
• Peridot
  Chrysolite.

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