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Foliation :: Foliation (n.) The property, possessed by some crystalline rocks, of dividing into plates or slabs, which is due to the cleavage structure of one of the constituents, as mica or hornblende. It may sometimes include slaty structure or cleavage, though the latter is usually independent of any mineral constituent, and transverse to the bedding, it having been produced by pressure..

Backjoint :: Backjoint (n.) A rebate or chase in masonry left to receive a permanent slab or other filling.

Muller :: Muller (n.) A stone or thick lump of glass, or kind of pestle, flat at the bottom, used for grinding pigments or drugs, etc., upon a slab of similar material..

Phonolite :: Phonolite (n.) A compact, feldspathic, igneous rock containing nephelite, hauynite, etc. Thin slabs give a ringing sound when struck; -- called also clinkstone..

Slab :: Slab (n.) That which is slimy or viscous; moist earth; mud; also, a puddle..

Slabber :: Slabber (v. i.) To let saliva or some liquid fall from the mouth carelessly, like a child or an idiot; to drivel; to drool..

Slabbered :: Slabbered (imp. & p. p.) of Slabbe.

Gneiss :: Gneiss (n.) A crystalline rock, consisting, like granite, of quartz, feldspar, and mica, but having these materials, especially the mica, arranged in planes, so that it breaks rather easily into coarse slabs or flags. Hornblende sometimes takes the place of the mica, and it is then called hornblendic / syenitic gneiss. Similar varieties of related rocks are also called gneiss..

Slab :: Slab (n.) The wryneck.

Slabber :: Slabber (n.) A slabbing machine.

Slabbering :: Slabbering (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Slabbe.

Slab-sided :: Slab-sided (a.) Having flat sides; hence, tall, or long and lank..

Inequality :: Inequality (n.) Unevenness; want of levelness; the alternate rising and falling of a surface; as, the inequalities of the surface of the earth, or of a marble slab, etc..

Slabbing :: Slabbing (a.) Adapted for forming slabs, or for dressing flat surfaces..

Table :: Table (n.) An article of furniture, consisting of a flat slab, board, or the like, having a smooth surface, fixed horizontally on legs, and used for a great variety of purposes, as in eating, writing, or working..

Runner :: Runner (n.) A movable slab or rubber used in grinding or polishing a surface of stone.

Ashlering :: Ashlering (n.) Ashlar when in thin slabs and made to serve merely as a case to the body of the wall.

Slab :: Slab (n.) An outside piece taken from a log or timber in sawing it into boards, planks, etc..

Table :: Table (n.) A smooth, flat surface, like the side of a board; a thin, flat, smooth piece of anything; a slab..

Liner :: Liner (n.) A slab on which small pieces of marble, tile, etc., are fastened for grinding..

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