Word Meanings - FAYALITE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A black, greenish, or brownish mineral of the chrysolite group. It is a silicate of iron.

• Chrysolite
  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
• Mineralogize
  To study mineralogy by collecting and examining minerals.
• BLACKHAMBURG
  A sweet and juicy variety of European grape, of a dark purplish black color, much grown under glass in northern latitudes.
• Black book
  One of several books of a political character, published at different times and for different purposes; -- so called either from the color of the binding, or from the character of the contents.
• Blackfoot
  Of or pertaining to the Blackfeet; as, a Blackfoot Indian.
• Black letter
  The old English or Gothic letter, in which the Early English manuscripts were written, and the first English books were printed. It was conspicuous for its blackness. See Type.
• Blackroot
  See Colicroot.
• Mineralogies
  of Mineralogy
• BLACKHAND
  A Spanish anarchistic society, many of the members of which were imprisoned in 1883. 2. A lawless or blackmailing secret society, esp. among Italians.
• Black-browed
  Having black eyebrows. Hence: Gloomy; dismal; threatening; forbidding.
• Black friar
  A friar of the Dominican order; -- called also predicant and preaching friar; in France, Jacobin. Also, sometimes, a Benedictine.
• Black-letter
  Written or printed in black letter; as, a black-letter manuscript or book.
• Mineralogy
  The science which treats of minerals, and teaches how to describe, distinguish, and classify them.
• BLACKHEARTED
  Having a wicked, malignant disposition; morally bad.
• Blackburnian warbler
  A beautiful warbler of the United States (Dendroica Blackburniae). The male is strongly marked with orange, yellow, and black on the head and neck, and has an orange-yellow breast.
• Blackguard
  The scullions and lower menials of a court, or of a nobleman's household, who, in a removal from one residence to another, had charge of the kitchen utensils, and being smutted by them, were jocularly called the "black guard"; also, the servants a

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