"Steatite" is a word in ENGLISH
A massive variety of talc, of a grayish green or brown
color. It forms extensive beds, and is quarried for fireplaces and for
coarse utensils. Called also potstone, lard stone, and soapstone.
The rain spun in the yellow arc lights over the café parking lot. It was empty inside, except for a fat Negro woman whom I could see through the service window in the kitchen, and a pretty, redheaded waitress in her early twenties, dressed in a pink uniform with her hair tied up on her freckled neck. She was obviously tired, but she was polite and smiled at me when she took my order, and I felt a sense of guilt, almost shame, at my susceptibility and easy fondness for a young woman's smile. Because if you're forty-nine and unmarried or a widower or if you've simply chosen to live alone, you're easily flattered by a young woman's seeming attention to you, and you forget that it is often simply a deference to your age.
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Fig.: Something lofty, or massive, or very hard to be surmounted.
Read the complete definitionA common mineral embracing many varieties varying in color and in composition. It occurs in monoclinic crystals; also massive, generally …
Read the complete definitionA mineral of a white or a slightly bluish color, usually massive. It is anhydrous sulphate of lime, and differs …
Read the complete definitionNative sulphate of barium, a mineral occurring in transparent, colorless, white to yellow crystals (generally tabular), also in granular form, …
Read the complete definitionA mineral of a white or gray color, occurring massive or crystallized. It is a compound of the carbonates of …
Read the complete definitionA mineral of a white or gray color occurring massive and in isometric crystals; in composition it is a magnesium …
Read the complete definitionA mineral of a steel-gray to black color and metallic luster, occurring crystallized, often in twin crystals shaped like cogwheels …
Read the complete definitionOf great bulk or dimensions; of great size; large; thick; massive; as, bulky volumes.
Read the complete definitionA bronze-yellow massive mineral with metallic luster; a telluride of gold; -- first found in Calaveras County California.
Read the complete definitionA mineral occurring in hexagonal crystals, also massive, generally of a yellow color, containing silica, alumina, lime, soda, and carbon …
Read the complete definitionNative tin dioxide; tin stone; a mineral occurring in tetragonal crystals of reddish brown color, and brilliant adamantine luster; also …
Read the complete definitionAn engine somewhat resembling a massive crossbow, used by the ancient Greeks and Romans for throwing stones, arrows, spears, etc.
Read the complete definitionNative strontium sulphate, a mineral so named from its occasional delicate blue color. It occurs crystallized, also in compact massive …
Read the complete definitionA mineral of a brownish of cherry-red color, commonly massive. It is a hydrous silicate of cerium and allied metals.
Read the complete definitionNative lead carbonate; a mineral occurring in colorless, white, or yellowish transparent crystals, with an adamantine, also massive and compact.
Read the complete definitionCopper pyrites, or yellow copper ore; a common ore of copper, containing copper, iron, and sulphur. It occurs massive and …
Read the complete definitionAn impure, massive, flintlike quartz or hornstone, of a dull color.
Read the complete definitionA massive mineral, greenish in color, and opal-like in appearance. It is essentially a hydrous silicate of iron.
Read the complete definitionA hydrous silicate of copper, occurring massive, of a blue or greenish blue color.
Read the complete definitionComposed of clumps; massive; shapeless.
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