Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An earth of a blackish or deep-blue color.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun An earth of a blackish or deep blue color.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun An old
unit of measure forgrain , used inConstantinople . - noun An
earth of ablackish or deep blue colour.
Etymologies
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Examples
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I could see nothing peculiar in this gravel; some silicious pebbles as large as a pigeon's egg, pieces of white and reddish quartz, iron stone, and killow, and a soft friable yellow stone, which crumbled to pieces by the fingers, were the chief minerals that I could distinguish.
The Journal of a Mission to the Interior of Africa, in the Year 1805 Mungo Park 1788
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I could see nothing peculiar in this gravel; some silicious pebbles as large as a pigeon’s egg, pieces of white and reddish quartz, iron stone, and killow, and a soft friable yellow stone, which crumbled to pieces by the fingers, were the chief minerals that I could distinguish.
The Journal of a Mission to the Interior of Africa, in the Year 1805 2008
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