Word Meanings - VOLCANO - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A mountain or hill, usually more or less conical in form, from which lava, cinders, steam, sulphur gases, and the like, are ejected; -- often popularly called a burning mountain.

• Callosities
  of Callosity
• Ejectment
  A casting out; a dispossession; an expulsion; ejection; as, the ejectment of tenants from their homes.
• Steamed
  of Steam
• Sulphureity
  The quality or state of being sulphureous.
• CALLISTHENICCALLISTHENICS
  See Calisthenic, Calisthenics.
• Burnish
  To cause to shine; to make smooth and bright; to polish; specifically, to polish by rubbing with something hard and smooth; as, to burnish brass or paper.
• Calligraphic
  Alt. of Calligraphical
• Calligraphical
  Of or pertaining to calligraphy.
• Callosity
  A hard or thickened spot or protuberance; a hardening and thickening of the skin or bark of a part, eps. as a result of continued pressure or friction.
• Ejector
  One who, or that which, ejects or dispossesses.
• Steaming
  of Steam
• Sulphureous
  Consisting of sulphur; having the qualities of sulphur, or brimstone; impregnated with sulphur.
• EJECTA
  Matter ejected; material thrown out; as, the ejecta of a volcano; the ejecta, or excreta, of the body.
• Burnisher
  One who burnishes.
• Calligraphist
  A calligrapher
• Callosum
  The great band commissural fibers which unites the two cerebral hemispheres. See corpus callosum, under Carpus.
• Steamboat
  A boat or vessel propelled by steam power; -- generally used of river or coasting craft, as distinguished from ocean steamers.
• Sulphuret
  A sulphide; as, a sulphuret of potassium.
• MOUNTAINSPECTER
  An optical phenomenon sometimes seen on the summit of mountains (as on the Brocken) when the observer is between the sun and a mass of cloud. The figures of the observer and surrounding objects are seen projected on the cloud, greatly enlarged and often

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