*lite*

n. (Min.) Needle ore. Brande & C. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Gr. &unr_;, &unr_;, ray + -lite. ] (Min.) A bright green variety of amphibole occurring usually in fibrous or columnar masses. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Aëro- + -lite: cf. F. aérolithe. ] (Meteor.) A stone, or metallic mass, which has fallen to the earth from distant space; a meteorite; a meteoric stone. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ Some writers limit the word to stony meteorites. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Gr. 'a`galma, 'a`galmatos, image, statue + -lite: cf. F. agalmatolithe. ] (Min.) 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. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Pertaining to, or characterized by alliteration. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. To compose alliteratively; also, to constitute alliteration. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To employ or place so as to make alliteration. Skeat. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. ad + litera letter. See Letter. ] The repetition of the same letter at the beginning of two or more words immediately succeeding each other, or at short intervals; as in the following lines: - [ 1913 Webster ]

Behemoth, biggest born of earth, upheaved
His vastness. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

Fly o'er waste fens and windy fields. Tennyson. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ The recurrence of the same letter in accented parts of words is also called alliteration. Anglo-Saxon poetry is characterized by alliterative meter of this sort. Later poets also employed it. [ 1913 Webster ]

In a somer seson whan soft was the sonne,
I shope me in shroudes as I a shepe were. P. Plowman. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Pertaining to, or characterized by, alliteration; as, alliterative poetry. -- Al*lit"er*a*tive*ly, adv. -- Al*lit"er*a*tive*ness, n. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who alliterates. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. ampelitis, Gr. 'ampeli^tis, fr. 'a`mpelos vine. ] (Min.) An earth abounding in pyrites, used by the ancients to kill insects, etc., on vines; -- applied by Brongniart to a carbonaceous alum schist. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. a metamorphic rock composed chiefly of amphibole and plagioclase. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ Gr. 'a`nqos flower + -lite. ] (Paleon.) A fossil plant, like a petrified flower. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ NL. anthophyllum clove. ] A mineral of the hornblende group, of a yellowish gray or clove brown color. -- An`tho*phyl*lit"ic a. [1913 Webster]

n. [ Gr. 'a`nqrwpos man + -lite. ] (Paleon.) A petrifaction of the human body, or of any portion of it. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. light-colored and fine-grained granitic rock consisting chiefly of quartz and feldspars. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ Pref. apo- + Gr. &unr_; leaf; so called from its foliated structure or easy cleavage. ] (Min.) A mineral relating to the zeolites, usually occurring in square prisms or octahedrons with pearly luster on the cleavage surface. It is a hydrous silicate of calcium and potassium. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. arena sand + colere to cherish or live. ] (Paleon.) An ancient wormhole in sand, preserved in the rocks. Dana. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Gr. &unr_; clay + -lite. ] (Min.) Argillaceous schist or slate; clay slate. Its colors is bluish or blackish gray, sometimes greenish gray, brownish red, etc. -- Ar`gil*lit"ic, a. [1913 Webster]

n. [ Gr. 'asth`r star + fy`llon leaf. ] (Paleon.) A fossil plant from the coal formations of Europe and America, now regarded as the branchlets and foliage of calamites. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } n. A worshiper of Baal; a devotee of any false religion; an idolater. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. baculum stick, staff; cf. F. baculite. ] (Paleon.) A cephalopod of the extinct genus Baculites, found fossil in the Cretaceous rocks. It is like an uncoiled ammonite. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. a thermosetting plastic used in electric insulators and for making plastic ware and telephone receivers etc. [ trademark ] [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. A large mass of intrusive igneous rock believed to have solidified deep within the earth.
Syn. -- batholith, pluton, plutonic rock. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

a. [ L. bis twice + littera letter. ] Consisting of two letters; as, a biliteral root of a Sanskrit verb. Sir W. Jones. -- n. A word, syllable, or root, consisting of two letters. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The property or state of being biliteral. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. blitum, Gr. bli`ton. ] (Bot.) A genus of herbs (Blitum) with a fleshy calyx. Blitum capitatum is the strawberry blite. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Gr. &unr_; cluster of grapes + -lite. ] (Min.) A variety of datolite, usually having a botryoidal structure. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } n. [ Gr. &unr_; + -lite, -lith. ] An aërolite. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Gr.&unr_; See flax + -lite. ] (Min.) An olive-green fibrous variety of hornblende. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ From Alexander Campbell, of Virginia. ] (Eccl.) A member of the denomination called Christians or Disciples of Christ. They themselves repudiate the term Campbellite as a nickname. See Christian, 3. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } a. Of or pertaining to the order of Carmelites. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. (Eccl. Hist.) A friar of a mendicant order (the Order of Our Lady of Mount Carmel) established on Mount Carmel, in Syria, in the twelfth century; a White Friar. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A nun of the Order of Our lady of Mount Carmel. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ G. carnallit, fr. Von Carnall, a Prussian. ] (Min.) A hydrous chloride of potassium and magnesium, sometimes found associated with deposits of rock salt. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Gr. karpo`s fruit + -lite, cf. F. carpolithe. ] A general term for a fossil fruit, nut, or seed. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. small lumpy deposits of body fat esp. on women's thighs and buttocks. Not used as a technical term. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

{ } n. [ F. centilitre; centi (L. centum) + litre. See Liter. ] The hundredth part of a liter; a measure of volume or capacity equal to a little more than six tenths (0.6102) of a cubic inch, or one third (0.338) of a fluid ounce. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Gr. khro`s wax + -lite. ] (Min.) A hydrous silicate of magnesium, allied to serpentine, occurring in waxlike masses of a yellow or greenish color. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ See -lite. ] A variety of feldspar found in crystals in the county of Chester, Pennsylvania. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Gr. chiasto`s marked with a χ + -lite. See Chiasm. So called from the resemblance of the cross cuts of its crystals to the Greek letter χ. ] (Min.) A variety of andalusite; -- called also macle. The tessellated appearance of a cross section is due to the symmetrical arrangement of impurities in the crystal. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. chrysolithos, Gr. &unr_;; chryso`s gold + &unr_; stone: cf. F. chrysolithe. ] (Min.) A mineral, composed of silica, magnesia, and iron, of a yellow to green color. It is common in certain volcanic rocks; -- called also olivine and peridot. Sometimes used as a gem. The name was also early used for yellow varieties of tourmaline and topaz. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Gr. &unr_; (sc. &unr_;) Cimolian earth, fr. &unr_;, L. Cimolus, an island of the Cyclades. ] (Min.) A soft, earthy, clayey mineral, of whitish or grayish color. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ NL., prob. fr. L. clitellae a packsadle. ] (Zool.) A thickened glandular portion of the body of the adult earthworm, consisting of several united segments modified for reproductive purposes. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. [ L. coalitus, p. p. of coalescere. See Coalesce. ] To unite or coalesce. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Let them continue to coalite. Bolingbroke. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To cause to unite or coalesce. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Time has by degrees blended . . . and coalited the conquered with the conquerors. Burke. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Gr. &unr_; a grain, seed + -lite: cf. F. coccalite. ] (Min.) A granular variety of pyroxene, green or white in color. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Gr. ko`pros dung + -lite. ] (Paleon.) A piece of petrified dung; a fossil excrement. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. corallum coral. ] 1. (Min.) A mineral substance or petrifaction, in the form of coral. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Zool.) One of the individual members of a compound coral; or that part formed by a single coral animal. [ Written also corallet. ] [ 1913 Webster ]