Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Matter ejected from a volcano in the form of lapilli.
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Examples
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The bodies here found were on the _lapillo_ at a height of about fifteen feet from the level of the ground.
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It has already been remarked that the showers of _lapillo_, or pumice stone, by which Pompeii was overwhelmed and buried, were followed by streams of a thick, tenacious mud, which flowing over the deposit of
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[1618] Pliny ix. 48, says of the octopus: "imposito lapillo extra corpus ne palpitatu ejiciatur: ita securi grassantur, extrahuntque carnes."
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_lapillo_, and filling up all the crannies and interstices into which that substance had not been able to penetrate, completed the destruction of the city.
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“If your health will allow,” said the count to the poet, “I shall hope to receive you this evening under my roof; it will be a day to mark, as the old writer said ‘albo notanda lapillo.’
Modeste Mignon 2007
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