Word Meanings - LIMONITE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Hydrous sesquioxide of iron, an important ore of iron, occurring in stalactitic, mammillary, or earthy forms, of a dark brown color, and yellowish brown powder. It includes bog iron. Also called brown hematite.

• CALLISTHENICCALLISTHENICS
  See Calisthenic, Calisthenics.
• Calliope
  The Muse that presides over eloquence and heroic poetry; mother of Orpheus, and chief of the nine Muses.
• Callous
  Hardened; indurated.
• Colorimeter
  An instrument for measuring the depth of the color of anything, especially of a liquid, by comparison with a standard liquid.
• Powdered
  of Powder
• COLORADOBEETLE
  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. See Pot
• Calliopsis
  A popular name given to a few species of the genus Coreopsis, especially to C. tinctoria of Arkansas.
• Colorist
  One who colors; an artist who excels in the use of colors; one to whom coloring is of prime importance.
• Powdering
  of Powder
• COLORADOGROUP
  A subdivision of the cretaceous formation of western North America, especially developed in Colorado and the upper Missouri region.
• Calling
  of Call
• Callipash
  See Calipash.
• Colorless
  Without color; not distinguished by any hue; transparent; as, colorless water.
• Powderflask
  A flask in which gunpowder is carried, having a charging tube at the end.

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