Word Meanings - CRYSTALLITE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A minute mineral form like those common in glassy volcanic rocks and some slags, not having a definite crystalline outline and not referable to any mineral species, but marking the first step in the crystallization process. According to their form crystallites are called trichites, belonites, globulites, etc.

• Processionary
  Pertaining to a procession; consisting in processions; as, processionary service.
• Callipash
  See Calipash.
• FIRSTHAND
  Obtained directly from the first or original source; hence, without the intervention of an agent. One sphere there is . . . where the apprehension of him is first-hand and direct; and that is the sphere of our own mind. J. Martineau.
• Callus
  Same as Callosity
• Commons
  The mass of the people, as distinguished from the titled classes or nobility; the commonalty; the common people.
• First-rate
  Of the highest excellence; preeminent in quality, size, or estimation.
• Havior
  Behavior; demeanor.
• Markis
  A marquis.
• Mineralogize
  To study mineralogy by collecting and examining minerals.
• Calling
  of Call
• Processioner
  One who takes part in a procession.
• Callipee
  See Calipee.
• FIRSTRATE
  Of the highest excellence; preëminent in quality, size, or estimation. Our only first-rate body of contemporary poetry is the German. M. Arnold. Hermocrates . . . a man of first-rate ability. Jowett (Thucyd).
• Callyciflorous
  Having the petals and stamens adnate to the calyx; -- applied to a subclass of dicotyledonous plants in the system of the French botanist Candolle.
• Common sense
  See Common sense, under Sense.
• Glassy
  Made of glass; vitreous; as, a glassy substance.
• Markisesse
  A marchioness.
• Mineralogies
  of Mineralogy

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