Definition of lava

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Lava (n.) The melted rock ejected by a volcano from its top or fissured sides. It flows out in streams sometimes miles in length. It also issues from fissures in the earth's surface, and forms beds covering many square miles, as in the Northwestern United States..

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Lavatory :: Lavatory (n.) A wash or lotion for a diseased part.
Irrelavancy :: Irrelavancy (n.) The quality or state of being irrelevant; as, the irrelevancy of an argument..
Vesicular :: Vesicular (a.) Containing, or composed of, vesicles or vesiclelike structures; covered with vesicles or bladders; vesiculate; as, vesicular coral; vesicular lava; a vesicular leaf..
Zeolite :: Zeolite (n.) A term now used to designate any one of a family of minerals, hydrous silicates of alumina, with lime, soda, potash, or rarely baryta. Here are included natrolite, stilbite, analcime, chabazite, thomsonite, heulandite, and others. These species occur of secondary origin in the cavities of amygdaloid, basalt, and lava, also, less frequently, in granite and gneiss. So called because many of these species intumesce before the blowpipe..
Clavellate :: Clavellate (a.) See Clavate.
Ignigenous :: Ignigenous (a.) Produced by the action of fire, as lava..
Irrelavance :: Irrelavance (n.) Irrelevancy.
Cinder :: Cinder (n.) The slag of a furnace, or scoriaceous lava from a volcano..
Quaquaversal :: Quaquaversal (a.) Dipping toward all points of the compass round a center, as beds of lava round a crater..
Lavature :: Lavature (n.) A wash or lotion.
Amygdaloid :: Amygdaloid (n.) A variety of trap or basaltic rock, containing small cavities, occupied, wholly or in part, by nodules or geodes of different minerals, esp. agates, quartz, calcite, and the zeolites. When the imbedded minerals are detached or removed by decomposition, it is porous, like lava..
Lavatory :: Lavatory (a.) Washing, or cleansing by washing..
Torrent :: Torrent (n.) A violent stream, as of water, lava, or the like; a stream suddenly raised and running rapidly, as down a precipice..
Translavation :: Translavation (n.) A laving or lading from one vessel to another.
Lavatory :: Lavatory (n.) A place where gold is obtained by washing.
Watches :: Watches (n. pl.) The leaves of Saracenia flava. See Trumpets.
Igneous :: Igneous (a.) Resulting from, or produced by, the action of fire; as, lavas and basalt are igneous rocks..
Thornback :: Thornback (n.) A European skate (Raia clavata) having thornlike spines on its back.
Lavender :: Lavender (n.) An aromatic plant of the genus Lavandula (L. vera), common in the south of Europe. It yields and oil used in medicine and perfumery. The Spike lavender (L. Spica) yields a coarser oil (oil of spike), used in the arts..
Clavated :: Clavated (a.) Club-shaped; having the form of a club; growing gradually thicker toward the top. [See Illust. of Antennae..
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