Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A genus of Alcidæ or auks containing the parrakeet-auklets, characterized by the peculiar shape of the bill.
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He then describes the actual stone which passes as the toad-stone, or "_Bufonius lapis_," and says that it is also called batrachite, or brontia, or ombria.
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