Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A slaty form of calcareous spar: same as
shiver-spar .
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e, which are common in the lead mines of Alston Moor in Cumberland; slate-spar (German _Schieferspath_) for crystals of tabular habit, and sometimes as thin as paper: cannon-spar for crystals of prismatic habit terminated by the basal pinacoid c.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary" Various
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