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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Maid :: Maid (n.) The female of a ray or skate, esp. of the gray skate (Raia batis), and of the thornback (R. clavata)..
Cinder :: Cinder (n.) The slag of a furnace, or scoriaceous lava from a volcano..
Vesiculate :: Vesiculate (v. t.) To form vesicles in, as lava..
Uprush :: Uprush (n.) Act of rushing upward; an upbreak or upburst; as, an uprush of lava..
Lavatory :: Lavatory (n.) A basin or other vessel for washing in.
Lavatory :: Lavatory (a.) Washing, or cleansing by washing..
Thornback :: Thornback (n.) A European skate (Raia clavata) having thornlike spines on its back.
Basaltic :: Basaltic (a.) Pertaining to basalt; formed of, or containing, basalt; as basaltic lava..
Lavaret :: Lavaret (n.) A European whitefish (Coregonus laveretus), found in the mountain lakes of Sweden, Germany, and Switzerland..
Clavated :: Clavated (a.) Club-shaped; having the form of a club; growing gradually thicker toward the top. [See Illust. of Antennae..
Cassidony :: Cassidony (n.) The French lavender (Lavandula Stoechas.
Watches :: Watches (n. pl.) The leaves of Saracenia flava. See Trumpets.
Flood :: Flood (v. i.) A great flow or stream of any fluid substance; as, a flood of light; a flood of lava; hence, a great quantity widely diffused; an overflowing; a superabundance; as, a flood of bank notes; a flood of paper currency..
Lavatory :: Lavatory (n.) A wash or lotion for a diseased part.
Translavation :: Translavation (n.) A laving or lading from one vessel to another.
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..
Lithophyse :: Lithophyse (n.) A spherulitic cavity often with concentric chambers, observed in some volcanic rocks, as in rhyolitic lavas. It is supposed to be produced by expanding gas, whence the name..
Scoria :: Scoria (n.) Cellular slaggy lava; volcanic cinders.
Lava :: 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..
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..
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