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Agalmatolite :: Agalmatolite (n.) A soft, compact stone, of a grayish, greenish, or yellowish color, carved into images by the Chinese, and hence called figure stone, and pagodite. It is probably a variety of pinite..

Maltha :: Maltha (n.) A variety of bitumen, viscid and tenacious, like pitch, unctuous to the touch, and exhaling a bituminous odor..

Activity :: Activity (n.) The state or quality of being active; nimbleness; agility; vigorous action or operation; energy; active force; as, an increasing variety of human activities..

Stock :: Stock (n.) A race or variety in a species.

Aventurine :: Aventurine (n.) A variety of translucent quartz, spangled throughout with scales of yellow mica..

Nautilus :: Nautilus (n.) A variety of diving bell, the lateral as well as vertical motions of which are controlled, by the occupants..

Variety :: Variety (n.) The quality or state of being various; intermixture or succession of different things; diversity; multifariousness.

Anthracite :: Anthracite (n.) A hard, compact variety of mineral coal, of high luster, differing from bituminous coal in containing little or no bitumen, in consequence of which it burns with a nearly non luminous flame. The purer specimens consist almost wholly of carbon. Also called glance coal and blind coal..

Golden-eye :: Golden-eye (n.) A duck (Glaucionetta clangula), found in Northern Europe, Asia, and America. The American variety (var. Americana) is larger. Called whistler, garrot, gowdy, pied widgeon, whiteside, curre, and doucker. Barrow's golden-eye of America (G. Islandica) is less common..

Silverfish :: Silverfish (n.) A white variety of the goldfish.

Brownstone :: Brownstone (n.) A dark variety of sandstone, much used for building purposes..

Almandine :: Almandine (n.) The common red variety of garnet.

Merino :: Merino (a.) Of or pertaining to a variety of sheep with very fine wool, originally bred in Spain..

Conglutin :: Conglutin (n.) A variety of vegetable casein, resembling legumin, and found in almonds, rye, wheat, etc..

Colophonite :: Colophonite (n.) A coarsely granular variety of garnet.

Soko :: Soko (n.) An African anthropoid ape, supposed to be a variety of the chimpanzee..

Indiglucin :: Indiglucin (n.) The variety of sugar (glucose) obtained from the glucoside indican. It is unfermentable, but reduces Fehling's solution..

Greensand :: Greensand (n.) A variety of sandstone, usually imperfectly consolidated, consisting largely of glauconite, a silicate of iron and potash of a green color, mixed with sand and a trace of phosphate of lime..

Distract :: Distract (v. t.) To agitate by conflicting passions, or by a variety of motives or of cares; to confound; to harass..

Oil :: Oil (n.) Any one of a great variety of unctuous combustible substances, not miscible with water; as, olive oil, whale oil, rock oil, etc. They are of animal, vegetable, or mineral origin and of varied composition, and they are variously used for food, for solvents, for anointing, lubrication, illumination, etc. By extension, any substance of an oily consistency; as, oil of vitriol..

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