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Hellier :: Hellier (v. t.) One who heles or covers; hence, a tiler, slater, or thatcher..

Fault :: Fault (n.) In coal seams, coal rendered worthless by impurities in the seam; as, slate fault, dirt fault, etc..

Schist :: Schist (n.) Any crystalline rock having a foliated structure (see Foliation) and hence admitting of ready division into slabs or slates. The common kinds are mica schist, and hornblendic schist, consisting chiefly of quartz with mica or hornblende and often feldspar..

Legislated :: Legislated (imp. & p. p.) of Legislat.

Ericius :: Ericius (n.) The Vulgate rendering of the Hebrew word qip/d, which in the Authorized Version is translated bittern, and in the Revised Version, porcupine..

Retranslate :: Retranslate (v. t.) To translate anew; especially, to translate back into the original language..

Slate :: Slate (v. t.) An artificial material, resembling slate, and used for the above purposes..

Oilstone :: Oilstone (n.) A variety of hone slate, or whetstone, used for whetting tools when lubricated with oil..

Translate :: Translate (v. t.) To remove, as a bishop, from one see to another..

Translate :: Translate (v. t.) To bear, carry, or remove, from one place to another; to transfer; as, to translate a tree..

Grain :: Grain (n.) The direction, arrangement, or appearance of the fibers in wood, or of the strata in stone, slate, etc..

Slater :: Slater (n.) Any terrestrial isopod crustacean of the genus Porcellio and allied genera; a sow bug.

Sax :: Sax (n.) A kind of chopping instrument for trimming the edges of roofing slates.

Turn :: Turn (v. t.) To translate; to construe; as, to turn the Iliad..

Sponge :: Sponge (v. t.) To cleanse or wipe with a sponge; as, to sponge a slate or a cannon; to wet with a sponge; as, to sponge cloth..

Phyllite :: Phyllite (n.) Clay slate; argillaceous schist.

Metempsychose :: Metempsychose (v. t.) To translate or transfer, as the soul, from one body to another..

"adonist :: Adonist (n.) One who maintains that points of the Hebrew word translated Jehovah are really the vowel points of the word Adonai. See Jehovist..

Slaty :: Slaty (a.) Resembling slate; having the nature, appearance, or properties, of slate; composed of thin parallel plates, capable of being separated by splitting; as, a slaty color or texture..

Crisscross :: Crisscross (n.) A child's game played on paper or on a slate, consisting of lines arranged in the form of a cross..

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