Word Meanings - FELSITE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A finegrained rock, flintlike in fracture, consisting essentially of orthoclase feldspar with occasional grains of quartz.

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• QUARTZITE
  Massive quartz occurring as a rock; a metamorphosed sandstone; -- called also quartz rock.
• CONSISTENTLY
  In a consistent manner.
• OCCASIONALISM
  The system of occasional causes; -- a name given to certain theories of the Cartesian school of philosophers, as to the intervention of the First Cause, by which they account for the apparent reciprocal action of the soul and the body.
• CONSIST
  1. To stand firm; to be in a fixed or permanent state, as a body composed of parts in union or connection; to hold together; to be; to exist; to subsist; to be supported and maintained. He is before all things, and by him all things consist. Col.
• CONSISTORIAN
  Pertaining to a Presbyterian consistory; -- a contemptuous term of 17th century controversy. You fall next on the consistorian schismatics; for so you call Presbyterians. Milton.
• ORTHOCLASE
  Common or potash feldspar crystallizing in the monoclinic system and having two cleavages at right angles to each other. See Feldspar.
• FRACTURE
  The breaking of a bone. (more info) 1. The act of breaking or snapping asunder; rupture; breach.
• CONSISTENCE; CONSISTENCY
  1. The condition of standing or adhering together, or being fixed in union, as the parts of a body; existence; firmness; coherence; solidity. Water, being divided, maketh many circles, till it restore itself to the natural consistence. Bacon. We
• QUARTZOID
  A form of crystal common with quartz, consisting of two six- sided pyramids, base to base.
• QUARTZOUS
  Quarzose.
• CONSISTORY
  The spiritual court of a diocesan bishop held before his chancellor or commissioner in his cathedral church or elsewhere. Hook. (more info) consistorium a place of assembly, the place where the emperor's council met, fr. consistere: cf.
• FELDSPAR; FELDSPATH
  A name given to a group of minerals, closely related in crystalline form, and all silicates of alumina with either potash, soda, lime, or, in one case, baryta. They occur in crystals and crystalline masses, vitreous in luster, and breaking rather
• GRAINS
  1. See 5th Grain, n., 2 . 2. Pigeon's dung used in tanning. See Grainer. n., 1.
• CONSISTENT
  1. Possessing firmness or fixedness; firm; hard; solid. The humoral and consistent parts of the body. Harvey. 2. Having agreement with itself or with something else; having harmony among its parts; possesing unity; accordant; harmonious; congruous;
• OCCASIONALLY
  In an occasional manner; on occasion; at times, as convenience requires or opportunity offers; not regularly. Stewart. The one, Wolsey, directly his subject by birth; the other, his subject occasionally by his preferment. Fuller.
• CONSISTORIAL
  Of or pertaining to a consistory. "Consistorial laws." Hooker. "Consistorial courts." Bp. Hoadley.
• QUARTZIFEROUS
  Consisting chiefly of quartz; containing quartz.
• QUARTZOSE
  Containing, or resembling, quartz; partaking of the nature or qualities of quartz.
• OCCASIONAL
  1. Of or pertaining to an occasion or to occasions; occuring at times, but not constant, regular, or systematic; made or happening as opportunity requires or admits; casual; incidental; as, occasional remarks, or efforts. The... occasional writing
• QUARTZ
  A form of silica, or silicon dioxide , occurring in hexagonal crystals, which are commonly colorless and transparent, but sometimes also yellow, brown, purple, green, and of other colors; also in cryptocrystalline massive forms varying in color
• INCONSISTENTLY
  In an inconsistent manner.
• REFRACTURE
  A second breaking by the surgeon.
• INCONSISTENCY
  1. The quality or state of being inconsistent; discordance in respect to sentiment or action; such contrariety between two things that both can not exist or be true together; disagreement; incompatibility. There is a perfect inconsistency between
• INCONSISTENTNESS
  Inconsistency.
• INCONSISTENCE
  Inconsistency.
• SELF-CONSISTENT
  Consistent with one's self or with itself; not deviation from the ordinary standard by which the conduct is guided; logically consistent throughout; having each part consistent with the rest.
• VEIN QUARTZ
  Quartz occurring as gangue in a vein.