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n. [ So called from Bucholz, a German chemist. ] (Min.) Same as Fibrolite. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } n. [ Gr. chabazi`os one of twenty species of stones mentioned in the poem Peri` li`qwn, ascribed to Orpheus. ] (Min.) A mineral occuring in glassy rhombohedral crystals, varying in color from white to yellow or red. It is essentially a hydrous silicate of alumina and lime. Called also chabasie. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. mélèze the larch + melitose. ] (Chem.) A variety of sugar, isomeric with sucrose, extracted from the manna of the larch (Larix). [ Written also melicitose. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ From Gr. mona`zein to be solitary, in allusion to its isolated crystals. ] (Min.) A mineral occurring usually in small isolated crystals, -- a phosphate of the cerium metals. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ From Petz, who analyzed it. ] (Min.) A telluride of silver and gold, related to hessite. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Min.) Same as Pistacite. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. F. quartzite. ] (Min.) Massive quartz occurring as a rock; a metamorphosed sandstone; -- called also quartz rock. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ So called from L. Rhaetia, Raetia, the Rhetian Alps, where it is found. ] (Min.) A variety of the mineral cyanite. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Min.) Same as Rhaetizite. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } n. (Min.) See Scolecite. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ So named in honor of Voltz, a French engineer. ] (Min.) An oxysulphide of lead occurring in implanted spherical globules of a yellowish or brownish color; -- called also voltzine. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. a pimple. [ slang ] [ PJC ]

n. [ G. zither. See Cittern. ] (Mus.) An instrument of music used in Austria and Germany. It has from thirty to forty wires strung across a shallow sounding-board, which lies horizontally on a table before the performer, who uses both hands in playing on it. [ Not to be confounded with the old lute-shaped cittern, or cithern. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Cookery) A tubular pasta in short pieces. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. (Min.) See Cittern. [ 1913 Webster ]