| slovo | definícia |
lite
(mass) | lite
- ľahký |
-lite
(gcide) | -lite \-lite\ (-l[imac]t) suff.
See -lith.
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Lite
(gcide) | Lite \Lite\ (l[imac]t), a., adv., & n.
Little. [Obs.] --Chaucer.
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-lite
(gcide) | -lith \-lith\ (-l[i^]th), -lite \-lite\ (-l[imac]t). suff.
Combining forms fr. Gr. li`qos a stone; -- used chiefly in
naming minerals and rocks.
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elite
(mass) | elite
- elitný |
illiteracy
(mass) | illiteracy
- smola |
lite
(mass) | lite
- ľahký |
literally
(mass) | literally
- doslova, doslovne |
literary
(mass) | literary
- literárny, spisovný |
literature
(mass) | literature
- literatúra |
obliterate
(mass) | obliterate
- vymazal, vymazať |
polite
(mass) | polite
- elegantný, kultúrny, spoločenský |
satellite
(mass) | satellite
- satelitný, satelit, vysielať cez satelit |
semiliterate
(mass) | semi-literate
- pologramotný |
computer-literate
(encz) | computer-literate,počítače znalý Zdeněk Brož |
semi-literate
(encz) | semi-literate,pologramotný Jaroslav Šedivý |
sea-lite beam director
(czen) | Sea-Lite Beam Director,SLBD[zkr.] [voj.] Zdeněk Brož a automatický
překlad |
Abelite
(gcide) | Abelian \A*bel"i*an\, Abelite \A"bel*ite\, Abelonian
\A`bel*o"ni*an\, n. (Eccl. Hist.)
One of a sect in Africa (4th century), mentioned by St.
Augustine, who states that they married, but lived in
continence, after the manner, as they pretended, of Abel.
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Aciculite
(gcide) | Aciculite \A*cic"u*lite\, n. (Min.)
Needle ore. --Brande & C.
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Actinolite
(gcide) | Actinolite \Ac*tin"o*lite\, n. [Gr. ?, ?, ray + -lite.] (Min.)
A bright green variety of amphibole occurring usually in
fibrous or columnar masses.
[1913 Webster]Amphibole \Am"phi*bole\ ([a^]m"f[i^]*b[=o]l), n. [Gr.
'amfi`bolos doubtful, equivocal, fr. 'amfiba`llein to throw
round, to doubt: cf. F. amphibole. Ha["u]y so named the genus
from the great variety of color and composition assumed by
the mineral.] (Min.)
A common mineral embracing many varieties varying in color
and in composition. It occurs in monoclinic crystals; also
massive, generally with fibrous or columnar structure. The
color varies from white to gray, green, brown, and black. It
is a silicate of magnesium and calcium, with usually
aluminium and iron. Some common varieties are tremolite,
actinolite, asbestus, edenite, hornblende (the last
name being also used as a general term for the whole
species). Amphibole is a constituent of many crystalline
rocks, as syenite, diorite, most varieties of trachyte, etc.
See Hornblende.
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actinolite
(gcide) | Actinolite \Ac*tin"o*lite\, n. [Gr. ?, ?, ray + -lite.] (Min.)
A bright green variety of amphibole occurring usually in
fibrous or columnar masses.
[1913 Webster]Amphibole \Am"phi*bole\ ([a^]m"f[i^]*b[=o]l), n. [Gr.
'amfi`bolos doubtful, equivocal, fr. 'amfiba`llein to throw
round, to doubt: cf. F. amphibole. Ha["u]y so named the genus
from the great variety of color and composition assumed by
the mineral.] (Min.)
A common mineral embracing many varieties varying in color
and in composition. It occurs in monoclinic crystals; also
massive, generally with fibrous or columnar structure. The
color varies from white to gray, green, brown, and black. It
is a silicate of magnesium and calcium, with usually
aluminium and iron. Some common varieties are tremolite,
actinolite, asbestus, edenite, hornblende (the last
name being also used as a general term for the whole
species). Amphibole is a constituent of many crystalline
rocks, as syenite, diorite, most varieties of trachyte, etc.
See Hornblende.
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Aerolite
(gcide) | Aerolite \A"["e]r*o*lite\, n. [A["e]ro- + -lite: cf. F.
a['e]rolithe.] (Meteor.)
A stone, or metallic mass, which has fallen to the earth from
distant space; a meteorite; a meteoric stone.
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Note: Some writers limit the word to stony meteorites.
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Agalmatolite
(gcide) | Agalmatolite \Ag`al*mat"o*lite\
([a^]g`[a^]l*m[a^]t"[-o]*l[imac]t), n. [Gr. 'a`galma,
'a`galmatos, image, statue + -lite: cf. F. agalmatolithe.]
(Min.)
A soft, compact stone, of a grayish, greenish, or yellowish
color, carved into images by the Chinese, and hence called
figure stone, and pagodite. It is probably a variety of
pinite.
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albolite
(gcide) | Albolith \Al"bo*lith\, n. [L. albus white + -lith.]
A kind of plastic cement, or artificial stone, consisting
chiefly of magnesia and silica; -- called also albolite.
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Alliteral
(gcide) | Alliteral \Al*lit"er*al\, a.
Pertaining to, or characterized by alliteration.
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Alliterate
(gcide) | Alliterate \Al*lit"er*ate\, v. t.
To employ or place so as to make alliteration. --Skeat.
[1913 Webster]Alliterate \Al*lit"er*ate\, v. i.
To compose alliteratively; also, to constitute alliteration.
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Alliteration
(gcide) | Alliteration \Al*lit`er*a"tion\, n. [L. ad + litera letter. See
Letter.]
The repetition of the same letter at the beginning of two or
more words immediately succeeding each other, or at short
intervals; as in the following lines:
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Behemoth, biggest born of earth, upheaved
His vastness. --Milton.
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Fly o'er waste fens and windy fields. --Tennyson.
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Note: The recurrence of the same letter in accented parts of
words is also called alliteration. Anglo-Saxon poetry
is characterized by alliterative meter of this sort.
Later poets also employed it.
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In a somer seson whan soft was the sonne,
I shope me in shroudes as I a shepe were. --P.
Plowman.
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Alliterative
(gcide) | Alliterative \Al*lit"er*a*tive\ (?; 277), a.
Pertaining to, or characterized by, alliteration; as,
alliterative poetry. -- Al*lit"er*a*tive*ly, adv. --
Al*lit"er*a*tive*ness, n.
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Alliteratively
(gcide) | Alliterative \Al*lit"er*a*tive\ (?; 277), a.
Pertaining to, or characterized by, alliteration; as,
alliterative poetry. -- Al*lit"er*a*tive*ly, adv. --
Al*lit"er*a*tive*ness, n.
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Alliterativeness
(gcide) | Alliterative \Al*lit"er*a*tive\ (?; 277), a.
Pertaining to, or characterized by, alliteration; as,
alliterative poetry. -- Al*lit"er*a*tive*ly, adv. --
Al*lit"er*a*tive*ness, n.
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Alliterator
(gcide) | Alliterator \Al*lit"er*a`tor\, n.
One who alliterates.
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Ambloplites rupestris
(gcide) | Goggle-eye \Gog"gle-eye`\, n. (Zool.)
(a) One of two or more species of American fresh-water fishes
of the family Centrarchid[ae], esp. {Ch[ae]nobryttus
antistius}, of Lake Michigan and adjacent waters, and
Ambloplites rupestris, of the Great Lakes and
Mississippi Valley; -- so called from their prominent
eyes.
(b) The goggler.
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Ampelite
(gcide) | Ampelite \Am"pe*lite\ ([a^]m"p[-e]*l[imac]t), n. [L. ampelitis,
Gr. 'ampeli^tis, fr. 'a`mpelos vine.] (Min.)
An earth abounding in pyrites, used by the ancients to kill
insects, etc., on vines; -- applied by Brongniart to a
carbonaceous alum schist.
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amphibolite
(gcide) | amphibolite \amphibolite\ n.
1. a metamorphic rock composed chiefly of amphibole and
plagioclase.
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Antholite
(gcide) | Antholite \An"tho*lite\, n. [Gr. 'a`nqos flower + -lite.]
(Paleon.)
A fossil plant, like a petrified flower.
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Anthophyllite
(gcide) | Anthophyllite \An*thoph"yl*lite\, n. [NL. anthophyllum clove.]
A mineral of the hornblende group, of a yellowish gray or
clove brown color. -- An`tho*phyl*lit"ic, a.
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Anthropolite
(gcide) | Anthropolite \An*throp"o*lite\, n. [Gr. 'a`nqrwpos man + -lite.]
(Paleon.)
A petrifaction of the human body, or of any portion of it.
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aplite
(gcide) | aplite \aplite\ n.
1. light-colored and fine-grained granitic rock consisting
chiefly of quartz and feldspars.
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Apophyllite
(gcide) | Apophyllite \A*poph"yl*lite\, n. [Pref. apo- + Gr. ? leaf; so
called from its foliated structure or easy cleavage.] (Min.)
A mineral relating to the zeolites, usually occurring in
square prisms or octahedrons with pearly luster on the
cleavage surface. It is a hydrous silicate of calcium and
potassium.
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Arenicolite
(gcide) | Arenicolite \Ar`e*nic"o*lite\, n. [L. arena sand + colere to
cherish or live.] (Paleon.)
An ancient wormhole in sand, preserved in the rocks. --Dana.
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Argillite
(gcide) | Argillite \Ar"gil*lite\, n. [Gr. ? clay + -lite.] (Min.)
Argillaceous schist or slate; clay slate. Its colors is
bluish or blackish gray, sometimes greenish gray, brownish
red, etc. -- Ar`gil*lit"ic, a.
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Asterophyllite
(gcide) | Asterophyllite \As`ter*oph"yl*lite\
([a^]s`t[~e]r*[o^]f"[i^]l*l[imac]t), n. [Gr. 'asth`r star +
fy`llon leaf.] (Paleon.)
A fossil plant from the coal formations of Europe and
America, now regarded as the branchlets and foliage of
calamites.
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Baalite
(gcide) | Baalist \Ba"al*ist\, Baalite \Ba"al*ite\, n.
A worshiper of Baal; a devotee of any false religion; an
idolater.
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Baculite
(gcide) | Baculite \Bac"u*lite\, n. [L. baculum stick, staff; cf. F.
baculite.] (Paleon.)
A cephalopod of the extinct genus Baculites, found fossil
in the Cretaceous rocks. It is like an uncoiled ammonite.
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Bakelite
(gcide) | Bakelite \Bakelite\ n.
a thermosetting plastic used in electric insulators and for
making plastic ware and telephone receivers etc. [trademark]
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batholite
(gcide) | batholite \batholite\ n.
A large mass of intrusive igneous rock believed to have
solidified deep within the earth.
Syn: batholith, pluton, plutonic rock.
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Biliteral
(gcide) | Biliteral \Bi*lit"er*al\, a. [L. bis twice + littera letter.]
Consisting of two letters; as, a biliteral root of a Sanskrit
verb. --Sir W. Jones. -- n. A word, syllable, or root,
consisting of two letters.
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Biliteralism
(gcide) | Biliteralism \Bi*lit"er*al*ism\, n.
The property or state of being biliteral.
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Blite
(gcide) | Blite \Blite\ (bl[imac]t), n. [L. blitum, Gr. bli`ton.] (Bot.)
A genus of herbs (Blitum) with a fleshy calyx. {Blitum
capitatum} is the strawberry blite.
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blotted out obliterate obliterated
(gcide) | destroyed \destroyed\ adj.
1. p. p. of destroy. [Narrower terms: {annihilated,
exterminated, wiped out(predicate)}; {blasted, desolate,
desolated, devastated, ravaged, ruined, wasted};
blighted, spoilt; {blotted out, obliterate,
obliterated}; demolished, dismantled, razed; {done
for(predicate), kaput(predicate), gone(prenominal), lost,
finished(predicate)}; extinguished; {ruined, wiped
out(predicate), impoverished}; totaled, wrecked;
war-torn, war-worn; {despoiled, pillaged, raped,
ravaged, sacked}] Also See: damaged. Antonym:
preserved
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2. destroyed physically or morally.
Syn: ruined.
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Botryolite
(gcide) | Botryolite \Bot"ry*o*lite\, n. [Gr. ? cluster of grapes +
-lite.] (Min.)
A variety of datolite, usually having a botryoidal structure.
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Brontolite
(gcide) | Brontolite \Bron"to*lite\, Brontolith \Bron"to*lith\, n. [Gr. ?
+ -lite, -lith.]
An a["e]rolite. [R.]
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Byssolite
(gcide) | Byssolite \Bys"so*lite\, n. [Gr.? See flax + -lite.] (Min.)
An olive-green fibrous variety of hornblende.
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Campbellite
(gcide) | Campbellite \Camp"bell*ite\, n. [From Alexander Campbell, of
Virginia.] (Eccl.)
A member of the denomination called Christians or Disciples
of Christ. They themselves repudiate the term Campbellite as
a nickname. See Christian, 3.
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Campbellites
(gcide) | Christian \Chris"tian\, n. [L. christianus, Gr. ?; cf. AS.
cristen. See Christ.]
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1. One who believes, or professes or is assumed to believe,
in Jesus Christ, and the truth as taught by Him;
especially, one whose inward and outward life is conformed
to the doctrines of Christ.
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The disciples were called Christians first in
Antioch. --Acts xi. 26.
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2. One born in a Christian country or of Christian parents,
and who has not definitely becomes an adherent of an
opposing system.
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3. (Eccl.)
(a) One of a Christian denomination which rejects human
creeds as bases of fellowship, and sectarian names.
They are congregational in church government, and
baptize by immersion. They are also called {Disciples
of Christ}, and Campbellites.
(b) One of a sect (called Christian Connection) of
open-communion immersionists. The Bible is their only
authoritative rule of faith and practice.
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Note: In this sense, often pronounced, but not by the members
of the sects, kr[imac]s"chan.
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campylite
(gcide) | Kampylite \Kam"py*lite\, n. [Gr. ? bent, curved, fr. ? to bend.]
(Min.)
A variety of mimetite or arseniate of lead in hexagonal
prisms of a fine orange yellow. [Written also campylite.]
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Caribbean iolite
(gcide) | Iolite \I"o*lite\ ([imac]"[-o]*l[imac]t), n. [Gr. 'i`on a violet
+ -lite.] (Min.)
A silicate of alumina, iron, and magnesia, having a bright
blue color and vitreous luster; cordierite. It is remarkable
for its dichroism, and is also called dichroite. A variety
called Caribbean iolite has a lighter blue color.
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Carmelite
(gcide) | Carmelite \Car"mel*ite\, Carmelin \Car"mel*in\ a.
Of or pertaining to the order of Carmelites.
[1913 Webster]Carmelite \Car"mel*ite\, n.
1. (Eccl. Hist.) A friar of a mendicant order (the Order of
Our Lady of Mount Carmel) established on Mount Carmel, in
Syria, in the twelfth century; a White Friar.
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2. A nun of the Order of Our lady of Mount Carmel.
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Carnallite
(gcide) | Carnallite \Car"nal*lite\, n. [G. carnallit, fr. Von Carnall, a
Prussian.] (Min.)
A hydrous chloride of potassium and magnesium, sometimes
found associated with deposits of rock salt.
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Carpolite
(gcide) | Carpolite \Car"po*lite\ (k[aum]r"p[-o]*l[imac]t), n. [Gr.
karpo`s fruit + -lite, cf. F. carpolithe.]
A general term for a fossil fruit, nut, or seed.
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cellulite
(gcide) | cellulite \cel"lu*lite`\ (s[e^]l"[u^]*l[imac]t` or
s[e^]l"[u^]*l[=e]t`), n.
small lumpy deposits of body fat esp. on women's thighs and
buttocks. Not used as a technical term.
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Centiliter
(gcide) | Centiliter \Cen"ti*li`ter\, Centilitre \Cen"ti*li`tre\, n. [F.
centilitre; centi (L. centum) + litre. See Liter.]
The hundredth part of a liter; a measure of volume or
capacity equal to a little more than six tenths (0.6102) of a
cubic inch, or one third (0.338) of a fluid ounce.
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Cerolite
(gcide) | Cerolite \Cer"o*lite\, n. [Gr. khro`s wax + -lite.] (Min.)
A hydrous silicate of magnesium, allied to serpentine,
occurring in waxlike masses of a yellow or greenish color.
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chalcolite
(gcide) | Torbernite \Tor"bern*ite\, n. [So named after Torber Bergmann, a
Swedish chemist.] (Min.)
A mineral occurring in emerald-green tabular crystals having
a micaceous structure. It is a hydrous phosphate of uranium
and copper. Called also copper uranite, and chalcolite.
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chessylite
(gcide) | Chessy copper \Ches`sy" cop"per\ (Min.)
The mineral azurite, found in fine crystallization at Chessy,
near Lyons; called also chessylite.
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Chesterlite
(gcide) | Chesterlite \Ches"ter*lite\, n. [See -lite.]
A variety of feldspar found in crystals in the county of
Chester, Pennsylvania.
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Chiastolite
(gcide) | Chiastolite \Chi*as"to*lite\ (k[-i]*[a^]s"t[-o]*l[imac]t), n.
[Gr. chiasto`s marked with a [chi] + -lite. See Chiasm. So
called from the resemblance of the cross cuts of its crystals
to the Greek letter [chi].] (Min.)
A variety of andalusite; -- called also macle. The
tessellated appearance of a cross section is due to the
symmetrical arrangement of impurities in the crystal.
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Chrysolite
(gcide) | Chrysolite \Chrys"o*lite\, n. [L. chrysolithos, Gr. ?; chryso`s
gold + ? stone: cf. F. chrysolithe.] (Min.)
A mineral, composed of silica, magnesia, and iron, of a
yellow to green color. It is common in certain volcanic
rocks; -- called also olivine and peridot. Sometimes used
as a gem. The name was also early used for yellow varieties
of tourmaline and topaz.
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cimolite
(gcide) | Tobacco \To*bac"co\, n. [Sp. tabaco, fr. the Indian tabaco the
tube or pipe in which the Indians or Caribbees smoked this
plant. Some derive the word from Tabaco, a province of
Yucatan, where it was said to be first found by the
Spaniards; others from the island of Tobago, one of the
Caribbees. But these derivations are very doubtful.]
1. (Bot.) An American plant (Nicotiana Tabacum) of the
Nightshade family, much used for smoking and chewing, and
as snuff. As a medicine, it is narcotic, emetic, and
cathartic. Tobacco has a strong, peculiar smell, and an
acrid taste.
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Note: The name is extended to other species of the genus, and
to some unrelated plants, as Indian tobacco ({Nicotiana
rustica}, and also Lobelia inflata), mountain tobacco
(Arnica montana), and Shiraz tobacco ({Nicotiana
Persica}).
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2. The leaves of the plant prepared for smoking, chewing,
etc., by being dried, cured, and manufactured in various
ways.
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Tobacco box (Zool.), the common American skate.
Tobacco camphor. (Chem.) See Nicotianine.
Tobacco man, a tobacconist. [R.]
Tobacco pipe.
(a) A pipe used for smoking, made of baked clay, wood, or
other material.
(b) (Bot.) Same as Indian pipe, under Indian.
Tobacco-pipe clay (Min.), a species of clay used in making
tobacco pipes; -- called also cimolite.
Tobacco-pipe fish. (Zool.) See Pipemouth.
Tobacco stopper, a small plug for pressing down the tobacco
in a pipe as it is smoked.
Tobacco worm (Zool.), the larva of a large hawk moth
(Sphinx Carolina syn. Phlegethontius Carolina). It is
dark green, with seven oblique white stripes bordered
above with dark brown on each side of the body. It feeds
upon the leaves of tobacco and tomato plants, and is often
very injurious to the tobacco crop. See Illust. of {Hawk
moth}.
[1913 Webster]Cimolite \Cim"o*lite\, n. [Gr. ? (sc. ?) Cimolian earth, fr. ?,
L. Cimolus, an island of the Cyclades.] (Min.)
A soft, earthy, clayey mineral, of whitish or grayish color.
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Cimolite
(gcide) | Tobacco \To*bac"co\, n. [Sp. tabaco, fr. the Indian tabaco the
tube or pipe in which the Indians or Caribbees smoked this
plant. Some derive the word from Tabaco, a province of
Yucatan, where it was said to be first found by the
Spaniards; others from the island of Tobago, one of the
Caribbees. But these derivations are very doubtful.]
1. (Bot.) An American plant (Nicotiana Tabacum) of the
Nightshade family, much used for smoking and chewing, and
as snuff. As a medicine, it is narcotic, emetic, and
cathartic. Tobacco has a strong, peculiar smell, and an
acrid taste.
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Note: The name is extended to other species of the genus, and
to some unrelated plants, as Indian tobacco ({Nicotiana
rustica}, and also Lobelia inflata), mountain tobacco
(Arnica montana), and Shiraz tobacco ({Nicotiana
Persica}).
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2. The leaves of the plant prepared for smoking, chewing,
etc., by being dried, cured, and manufactured in various
ways.
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Tobacco box (Zool.), the common American skate.
Tobacco camphor. (Chem.) See Nicotianine.
Tobacco man, a tobacconist. [R.]
Tobacco pipe.
(a) A pipe used for smoking, made of baked clay, wood, or
other material.
(b) (Bot.) Same as Indian pipe, under Indian.
Tobacco-pipe clay (Min.), a species of clay used in making
tobacco pipes; -- called also cimolite.
Tobacco-pipe fish. (Zool.) See Pipemouth.
Tobacco stopper, a small plug for pressing down the tobacco
in a pipe as it is smoked.
Tobacco worm (Zool.), the larva of a large hawk moth
(Sphinx Carolina syn. Phlegethontius Carolina). It is
dark green, with seven oblique white stripes bordered
above with dark brown on each side of the body. It feeds
upon the leaves of tobacco and tomato plants, and is often
very injurious to the tobacco crop. See Illust. of {Hawk
moth}.
[1913 Webster]Cimolite \Cim"o*lite\, n. [Gr. ? (sc. ?) Cimolian earth, fr. ?,
L. Cimolus, an island of the Cyclades.] (Min.)
A soft, earthy, clayey mineral, of whitish or grayish color.
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clitellus
(gcide) | clitellus \cli*tel"lus\ (kl[i^]*t[e^]l"l[u^]s), n. [NL., prob.
fr. L. clitellae a packsadle.] (Zool.)
A thickened glandular portion of the body of the adult
earthworm, consisting of several united segments modified for
reproductive purposes.
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Coalite
(gcide) | Coalite \Co"a*lite\, v. t.
To cause to unite or coalesce. [Obs.]
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Time has by degrees blended . . . and coalited the
conquered with the conquerors. --Burke.
[1913 Webster]Coalite \Co"a*lite\, v. i. [L. coalitus, p. p. of coalescere.
See Coalesce.]
To unite or coalesce. [Obs.]
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Let them continue to coalite. --Bolingbroke.
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Coccolite
(gcide) | Coccolite \Coc"co*lite\, n. [Gr. ? a grain, seed + -lite: cf. F.
coccalite.] (Min.)
A granular variety of pyroxene, green or white in color.
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Coprolite
(gcide) | Coprolite \Cop"ro*lite\, n. [Gr. ko`pros dung + -lite.]
(Paleon.)
A piece of petrified dung; a fossil excrement.
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Corallite
(gcide) | Corallite \Cor"al*lite\, n. [L. corallum coral.]
1. (Min.) A mineral substance or petrifaction, in the form of
coral.
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2. (Zool.) One of the individual members of a compound coral;
or that part formed by a single coral animal. [Written
also corallet.]
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Cosmopolite
(gcide) | Cosmopolitan \Cos`mo*pol"i*tan\, Cosmopolite \Cos*mop"o*lite\,
a.
1. Having no fixed residence; at home in any place; free from
local attachments or prejudices; not provincial; liberal.
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In other countries taste is perphaps too exclusively
national, in Germany it is certainly too
cosmopolite. --Sir W.
Hamilton.
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2. Common everywhere; widely spread; found in all parts of
the world.
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The Cheiroptera are cosmopolitan. --R. Owen.
[1913 Webster]Cosmopolitan \Cos`mo*pol"i*tan\ (-p?l"?-tan), Cosmopolite
\Cos*mop"o*lite\ (k?z-m?p"?-l?t), n. [Gr. kosmopoli`ths; ko`smos
the world + poli`ths citizen, po`lis city: cf. F.
cosmopolitain, cosmopolite.]
One who has no fixed residence, or who is at home in every
place; a citizen of the world.
[1913 Webster] CosmopolitanCosmopolite \Cos*mop"o*lite\ (-m?p"?-l?t), a. & n.
See Cosmopolitan.
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