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A river in the Nether World or infernal regions; also, the infernal regions themselves. By some of the English poets it was supposed t…

A lead ore found in Cornwall, England, and used by potters to give a green glaze to their wares; potter's ore.

The grand marshal of the old German empire, a dignity that to the Elector of Saxony.

Mica containing iron and magnesia, generally of a black or dark green color; -- a common constituent of crystalline rocks. See Mica.

A variety of the mineral domeykite, or copper arsenide, from the Condurra mine in Cornwall, England.

Of or pertaining to Cornwall, in England.

Having a crimped appearance; frizzly; as, the crimpy wool of the Saxony sheep.

The stamping of pigs of tin, by the proper officer, with the arms of the duchy of Cornwall.

A superior kind of decorated porcelain made near Dresden in Saxony.

small common sandpiper that breeds in northern or Arctic regions and winters in southern United States or Mediterranean regions

Of or pertaining to certain veins of feldspathic or porphyritic rock crossing metalliferous veins in the mining districts of Cornwall;…

Pertaining to the hypothetical upper, purer air, or to the higher regions beyond the earth or beyond the atmosphere; celestial; as, et…

Laminated, but restricted to the variety of laminated structure found in crystalline schist, as mica schist, etc.; schistose.

The property, possessed by some crystalline rocks, of dividing into plates or slabs, which is due to the cleavage structure of one of…

A name originally given by the Italians to a kind of serpentine, later to the rock called euphotide, and now generally used for a coar…

Mica. See Mica.

A crystalline rock, consisting, like granite, of quartz, feldspar, and mica, but having these materials, especially the mica, arranged…

A crystalline, granular rock, consisting of quartz, feldspar, and mica, and usually of a whitish, grayish, or flesh-red color. It diff…