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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. A usually black or banded, hard volcanic glass that displays shiny, curved surfaces when fractured and is formed by rapid cooling of lava.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. A volcanic rock, in a vitreous condition, and closely resembling ordinary bottle-glass in appearance and texture. Obsidian usually contains about 70 per cent. of silica, and is the vitreous form of a trachyte or rock consisting largely of sanidine. It is of various colors, black, brown, and grayish green being the most common. Obsidian often occurs in a coarsely cellular form, and passes into pumice. See cut under conchoidal.

Wiktionary

  1. n. mineralogy a type of black glass produced by volcanos
  2. adj. poetic black

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. (Min.) A kind of glass produced by volcanoes. It is usually of a black color, and opaque, except in thin splinters.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. acid or granitic glass formed by the rapid cooling of lava without crystallization; usually dark, but transparent in thin pieces

Etymologies

  1. Latin obsidiānus, misreading of obsiānus (lapis), Obsian (stone), obsidian, after Obsius, a Roman who supposedly discovered it or a similar mineral. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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  1. volcanic glass

same context (21)

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  1. flint
  2. agate
  3. basalt
  4. alabaster
  1. onyx
  2. malachite
  3. jade
  4. razor-sharp
  1. carnelian
  2. quartz
  3. topaz
  4. pumice
  1. sandstone
  2. porcelain
  3. sharp-edged
  4. bronze
  1. ebony
  2. mica
  3. jeweled
  4. lava
  1. cornelian

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Words with the same terminal sound

  1. Davidian
  1. Floridian
  1. Gideon
  1. Meridian
  1. antemeridian
  1. didion
  1. meridian

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  1. Milos
  2. volcanic glass
  3. maquahuitl
  4. tecpatl
  1. marekanite
  2. knap
  3. conchoidal
  4. hyalomelan
  1. iztli
  2. spherulite
  3. Clovis
  4. perlite
  1. clovis culture
  2. trichite
  3. volcanic rocks
  4. core
  1. retinite
  2. scarab
  3. chipped
  4. glass
  1. pearlyte

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  • bilby Seems ugly to me - obscene, sinister, morbid, reptilian thing. Aug 12, 2008

  • reesetee Heehee! Aug 11, 2008

  • chained_bear I love this word, but now every time I see it I think of Firesign Theatre. "I lifted the heavy obsidian doorknocker... Hey in there! Open up! Your doorknocker fell off!" Aug 11, 2008

  • plethora Often used to describe the colour of eyes.
    Or perhaps that's just in the fanfic I read.
    I'm sure I've read it somewhere else, though. Aug 11, 2008

  • fbharjo more a liquid than a solid:will last only for about 25 million years Aug 11, 2008

  • brtom the obsidian gleam of crow
    suzanne, suzzanagig jig Dec 29, 2006

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