Word Meanings - TIGER-EYE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A siliceous stone of a yellow color and chatoyant luster, obtained in South Africa and much used for ornament. It is an altered form of the mineral crocidolite. See Crocidolite.

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• COLORMAN
  A vender of paints, etc. Simmonds.
• SOUTHWEST
  Pertaining to, or in the direction of, the southwest; proceeding toward the southwest; coming from the southwest; as, a southwest wind.
• SOUTHSAY
  See SOOTHSAY
• YELLOW-GOLDS
  A certain plant, probably the yellow oxeye. B. Jonson.
• SOUTHWESTERLY
  To ward or from the southwest; as, a southwesterly course; a southwesterly wind.
• YELLOWTOP
  A kind of grass, perhaps a species of Agrostis.
• YELLOWFISH
  A rock trout found on the coast of Alaska; -- called also striped fish, and Atka mackerel.
• SOUTHPAW
  A pitcher who pitches with the left hand.
• STONEBRASH
  A subsoil made up of small stones or finely-broken rock; brash.
• ALTERNATING CURRENT
  A current which periodically changes or reverses its direction of flow.
• ALTERNATION
  Permutation. 3. The response of the congregation speaking alternately with the minister. Mason. Alternation of generation. See under Generation. (more info) 1. The reciprocal succession of things in time or place; the act of following and being
• SOUTHERNLINESS
  Southerliness.
• AFRICAN
  A native of Africa; also one ethnologically belonging to an African race.
• SOUTHREN
  Southern. "I am a Southren man." Chaucer.
• AFRICANISM
  A word, phrase, idiom, or custom peculiar to Africa or Africans. "The knotty Africanisms . . . of the fathers." Milton.
• STONEROOT
  A North American plant having a very hard root; horse balm. See Horse balm, under Horse.
• MINERALIZATION
  The conversion of a cell wall into a material of a stony nature. (more info) 1. The process of mineralizing, or forming a mineral by combination of a metal with another element; also, the process of converting into a mineral, as a bone or a plant.
• ORNAMENTAL
  Serving to ornament; characterized by ornament; beautifying; embellishing. Some think it most ornamental to wear their bracelets on their wrists; others, about their ankles. Sir T. Browne.
• ALTERNAT
  A usage, among diplomats, of rotation in precedence among representatives of equal rank, sometimes determined by lot and at other times in regular order. The practice obtains in the signing of treaties and conventions between nations.
• ALTERATION
  1. The act of altering or making different. Alteration, though it be from worse to better, hath in it incoveniences. Hooker. 2. The state of being altered; a change made in the form or nature of a thing; changed condition. Ere long might perceive
• PITCHSTONE
  An igneous rock of semiglassy nature, having a luster like pitch.
• CAPSTONE
  A fossil echinus of the genus Cannulus; -- so called from its supposed resemblance to a cap.
• CLINKSTONE
  An igneous rock of feldspathic composition, lamellar in structure, and clinking under the hammer. See Phonolite.
• GRINDSTONE
  A flat, circular stone, revolving on an axle, for grinding or sharpening tools, or shaping or smoothing objects. To hold, pat, or bring one's nose to the grindstone, to oppress one; to keep one in a condition of servitude. They might be ashamed,
• SUBALTERNANT
  A universal proposition. See Subaltern, 2. Whately.
• CONCOLOR
  Of the same color; of uniform color. "Concolor animals." Sir T. Browne.
• MOORSTONE
  A species of English granite, used as a building stone.
• RUBSTONE
  A stone for scouring or rubbing; a whetstone; a rub.
• FALTER
  To thrash in the chaff; also, to cleanse or sift, as barley. Halliwell.
• GRINDLE STONE
  A grindstone.
• MISALTER
  To alter wrongly; esp., to alter for the worse. Bp. Hall.
• EYESTONE
  Eye agate. See under Eye. (more info) 1. A small, lenticular, calcareous body, esp. an operculum of a small shell of the family Tubinid, used to remove a foreign sub stance from the eye. It is rut into the inner corner of the eye under the lid,