cineraceous

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To the east of this water, black cineraceous earth shows where the smith had been at work: we applied the quarrymen to sift it, without other results but bits of glass, copper, and iron nails.

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  • To the east of this water, black cineraceous earth shows where the smith had been at work: we applied the quarrymen to sift it, without other results but bits of glass, copper, and iron nails. —  The Land of Midian — Volume 1
 

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  1. from Latin cineraceus, ashy, from cinis (ciner-), ashes (especially common in reference to the ashes of a corpse that has been burned), = Greek κόυις, dust, ashes; cf. Sanskrit kana (lingual n), a small grain, as of dust, or rice. Cf. cinder.
 

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