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Stonily :: Stonewort (n.) Any plant of the genus Chara; -- so called because they are often incrusted with carbonate of lime. See Chara.

Globulimeter :: Globulimeter (n.) An instrument for measuring the number of red blood corpuscles in the blood.

Metamorphism :: Metamorphism (n.) The state or quality of being metamorphic; the process by which the material of rock masses has been more or less recrystallized by heat, pressure, etc., as in the change of sedimentary limestone to marble..

Salimeter :: Salimeter (n.) An instrument for measuring the amount of salt present in any given solution.

Appliment :: Appliment (n.) Application.

Hauynite :: Hauynite (n.) A blue isometric mineral, characteristic of some volcani/ rocks. It is a silicate of alumina, lime, and soda, with sulphate of lime..

Nullipore :: Nullipore (n.) A name for certain crustaceous marine algae which secrete carbonate of lime on their surface, and were formerly thought to be of animal nature. They are now considered corallines of the genera Melobesia and Lithothamnion..

Micaceo-calcareous :: Micaceo-calcareous (a.) Partaking of the nature of, or consisting of, mica and lime; -- applied to a mica schist containing carbonate of lime..

Complimentative :: Complimentative (a.) Complimentary.

Lime Twig :: Lime twig () See under 4th Lime.

Stucco :: Stucco (n.) Plaster of any kind used as a coating for walls, especially, a fine plaster, composed of lime or gypsum with sand and pounded marble, used for internal decorations and fine work..

Travertine :: Travertine (n.) A white concretionary form of calcium carbonate, usually hard and semicrystalline. It is deposited from the water of springs or streams holding lime in solution. Extensive deposits exist at Tivoli, near Rome..

Oriskany :: Oriskany (a.) Designating, or pertaining to, certain beds, chiefly limestone, characteristic of the latest period of the Silurian age..

Leucophane :: Leucophane (n.) A mineral of a greenish yellow color; it is a silicate of glucina, lime, and soda with fluorine. Called also leucophanite..

Drummond Light :: Drummond light () A very intense light, produced by turning two streams of gas, one oxygen and the other hydrogen, or coal gas, in a state of ignition, upon a ball of lime; or a stream of oxygen gas through a flame of alcohol upon a ball or disk of lime; -- called also oxycalcium light, or lime light..

Limmer :: Limmer (n.) A limehound; a leamer.

Slime :: Slime (n.) Bitumen.

Low :: Low (superl.) Not elevated or sublime; not exalted or diction; as, a low comparison..

Slime :: Slime (n.) A mucuslike substance which exudes from the bodies of certain animals.

Encrinital :: Encrinital (a.) Relating to encrinites; containing encrinites, as certain kinds of limestone..

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