Word Meanings - PYRITOHEDRON - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The pentagonal dodecahedron, a common form of pyrite.

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• COMMONER
  1. One of the common people; one having no rank of nobility. All below them even their children, were commoners, and in the eye law equal to each other. Hallam. 2. A member of the House of Commons. 3. One who has a joint right in common ground.
• COMMONISH
  Somewhat common; commonplace; vulgar.
• PYRITE
  A common mineral of a pale brass-yellow color and brilliant metallic luster, crystallizing in the isometric system; iron pyrites; iron disulphide. Hence sable coal his massy couch extends, And stars of gold the sparkling pyrite blends. E. Darwin.
• COMMONLY
  1. Usually; generally; ordinarily; frequently; for the most part; as, confirmed habits commonly continue trough life. 2. In common; familiary. Spenser.
• COMMONWEALTH
  Specifically, the form of government established on the death of Charles I., in 1649, which existed under Oliver Cromwell and his son Richard, ending with the abdication of the latter in 1659. Syn. -- State; realm; republic. (more info) 1. A state;
• COMMONITION
  Advice; warning; instruction. Bailey.
• COMMONAGE
  The right of pasturing on a common; the right of using anything in common with others. The claim of comonage . . . in most of the forests. Burke.
• COMMONS
  1. The mass of the people, as distinguished from the titled chasses or nobility; the commonalty; the common people. 'T is like the commons, rude unpolished hinds, Could send such message to their sovereign. Shak. The word commons in its present
• COMMONPLACE
  Common; ordinary; trite; as, a commonplace person, or observation.
• COMMON SENSE
  See SENSE
• COMMONNESS
  1. State or quality of being common or usual; as, the commonness of sunlight. 2. Triteness; meanness.
• COMMON
  comon, OF. comun, F. commun, fr. L. communis; com- + munis ready to be of service; cf. Skr. mi to make fast, set up, build, Coth. gamains common, G. gemein, and E. mean low, common. Cf. Immunity, Commune, n. 1. Belonging or relating equally, or
• PYRITES
  A name given to a number of metallic minerals, sulphides of iron, copper, cobalt, nickel, and tin, of a white or yellowish color. Note: The term was originally applied to the mineral pyrite, or iron pyrites, in allusion to its giving sparks when
• COMMONALTY
  1. The common people; those classes and conditions of people who are below the rank of nobility; the commons. The commonalty, like the nobility, are divided into several degrees. Blackstone. The ancient fare of our kings differed from that of the
• PENTAGONAL
  Having five corners or angles. Pentagonal dodecahedron. See Dodecahedron, and Pyritohedron. (more info) pentagonius, Gr.
• COMMONABLE
  1. Held in common. "Forests . . . and other commonable places." Bacon. 2. Allowed to pasture on public commons. Commonable beasts are either beasts of the plow, or such as manure the ground. Blackstone.
• COMMONPLACENESS
  The quality of being commonplace; commonness.
• COMMONITORY
  Calling to mind; giving admonition. Foxe.
• COMMONITIVE
  Monitory. Only commemorative and commonitive. Bp. Hall.
• COMMONTY
  A common; a piece of land in which two or more persons have a common right. Bell.
• UNCOMMON
  Not common; unusual; infrequent; rare; hence, remarkable; strange; as, an uncommon season; an uncommon degree of cold or heat; uncommon courage. Syn. -- Rare; scarce; infrequent; unwonted. -- Un*com"mon*ly, adv. -- Un*com"mon*ness, n.
• FELLOW-COMMONER
  A student at Cambridge University, England, who commons, or dines, at the Fellow's table.
• INTERCOMMON
  To graze cattle promiscuously in the commons of each other, as the inhabitants of adjoining townships, manors, etc. (more info) 1. To share with others; to participate; especially, to eat at the same table. Bacon.
• MELAMPYRIN; MELAMPYRITE
  The saccharine substance dulcite; -- so called because found in the leaves of cowwheat . See Dulcite.
• LEUCOPYRITE
  A mineral of a color between white and steel-gray, with a metallic luster, and consisting chiefly of arsenic and iron.
• INTERCOMMONAGE
  The right or privilege of intercommoning.
• DISCOMMON
  To deprive of commonable quality, as lands, by inclosing or appropriating. Burrill. (more info) 1. To deprive of the right of common. Bp. Hall. 2. To deprive of privileges. T. Warton.
• CHALCOPYRITE
  Copper pyrites, or yellow copper ore; a common ore of opper, containing copper, iron, and sulphur. It occurs massive and in tetragonal crystals of a bright brass yellow color.