"Porphyries" is a word in ENGLISH
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A solider stationed in the South Pacific wrote to his wife in the States to please send him a harmonica to occupy his free time and keep his mind off of the local women. The wife complied and sent the best one she could find, along with several dozen lesson and music books.Rotated back home, he rushed to their home and through the front door. "Oh darling" he gushed, "Come here. Let me look at you. Let me hold you! Let's have a fine dinner out, then make love all night. I've missed your lovin' so much."The wife, keeping her distance, said, "All in good time lover. First, let's hear you play that harmonica."
The amorphous or homogenous matrix or ground mass, as distinguished from well-defined crystals; as, the magma of porphyry.
Read the complete definitionA massive, compact limestone; a variety of calcite, capable of being polished and used for architectural and ornamental purposes. The …
Read the complete definitionA greenish spotted porphyry, being a diabase whose pyroxene has been altered to uralite; -- first found in the Pyreness. …
Read the complete definitionPorphyry.
Read the complete definitionRelating to, or resembling, porphyry, that is, characterized by the presence of distinct crystals, as of feldspar, quartz, or augite, …
Read the complete definitionTo cause to resemble porphyry; to make spotted in composition, like porphyry.
Read the complete definitionA term used somewhat loosely to designate a rock consisting of a fine-grained base (usually feldspathic) through which crystals, as …
Read the complete definitionIn Egyptian art, an image of granite or porphyry, having a human head, or the head of a ram or …
Read the complete definitionNot stratified; -- applied to massive rocks, as granite, porphyry, etc., and also to deposits of loose material, as the …
Read the complete definitionA green porphyry called oriental verd antique.
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