Word Meanings - OLIVINE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A common name of the yellowish green mineral chrysolite, esp. the variety found in eruptive rocks.

• Greenness
  The quality of being green; viridity; verdancy; as, the greenness of grass, or of a meadow.
• Mineralize
  To transform into a mineral.
• ROCKSHAFT
  A shaft that oscillates on its journals, instead of revolving, -- usually carrying levers by means of which it receives and communicates reciprocating motion, as in the valve gear of some steam engines; -- called also rocker, rocking shaft, and way shaf
• Commonplaceness
  The quality of being commonplace; commonness.
• Founderous
  Difficult to travel; likely to trip one up; as, a founderous road.
• Greenery
  Green plants; verdure.
• Green-eyed
  Having green eyes.
• Greenockite
  Native cadmium sulphide, a mineral occurring in yellow hexagonal crystals, also as an earthy incrustation.
• Mineralizer
  An element which is combined with a metal, thus forming an ore. Thus, in galena, or lead ore, sulphur is a mineralizer; in hematite, oxygen is a mineralizer.
• ROCKSTAFF
  An oscillating bar in a machine, as the lever of the bellows of a forge.
• Foundershaft
  The first shaft sunk.
• Greenfinch
  A European finch (Ligurinus chloris); -- called also green bird, green linnet, green grosbeak, green olf, greeny, and peasweep.
• Greenroom
  The retiring room of actors and actresses in a theater.
• Mineralogical
  Of or pertaining to mineralogy; as, a mineralogical table.
• VARIETYSHOW
  A stage entertainment of successive separate performances, usually songs, dances, acrobatic feats, dramatic sketches, exhibitions of trained animals, or any specialties. Often loosely called vaudeville show.
• 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
• Common sense
  See Common sense, under Sense.
• Founderies
  of Foundery
• Greenfish
  See Bluefish, and Pollock.

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