Word Meanings - QUARTZIFEROUS - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Consisting chiefly of quartz; containing quartz.

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• QUARTZITE
  Massive quartz occurring as a rock; a metamorphosed sandstone; -- called also quartz rock.
• CONSISTENTLY
  In a consistent manner.
• CONTAINMENT
  That which is contained; the extent; the substance. The containment of a rich man's estate. Fuller.
• 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.
• 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.
• CONTAINANT
  A container.
• 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;
• CONTAINABLE
  Capable of being contained or comprised. Boyle.
• CONSISTORIAL
  Of or pertaining to a consistory. "Consistorial laws." Hooker. "Consistorial courts." Bp. Hoadley.
• CONTAINER
  One who, or that which, contains.
• QUARTZIFEROUS
  Consisting chiefly of quartz; containing quartz.
• QUARTZOSE
  Containing, or resembling, quartz; partaking of the nature or qualities of quartz.
• 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
• CONTAIN
  1. To hold within fixed limits; to comprise; to include; to inclose; to hold. Behold, heaven and the heaven of heavens can not contain thee; how much less this house! 2 Chron. vi. 18. When that this body did contain a spirit. Shak. What thy stores
• QUARTZY
  Quartzose.
• CHIEFLY
  1. In the first place; principally; preëminently; above; especially. Search through this garden; leave unsearched no nook; But chiefly where those two fair creatures lodge. Milton. 2. For the most part; mostly. Those parts of the kingdom where
• INCONSISTENTLY
  In an inconsistent manner.
• 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
• SELF-CONTAINED
  Having all the essential working parts connected by a bedplate or framework, or contained in a case, etc., so that mutual relations of the parts do not depend upon fastening outside of the machine itself. Self-contained steam engine.
• 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.
• SELF-CONSISTENCY
  The quality or state of being self-consistent.