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Schistaceous :: Schistaceous (a.) Of a slate color.

Crisscross :: Crisscross (n.) A child's game played on paper or on a slate, consisting of lines arranged in the form of a cross..

Translated :: Translated (imp. & p. p.) of Translat.

Grecize :: Grecize (v. t.) To translate into Greek.

Pencil :: Pencil (n.) A slender cylinder or strip of black lead, colored chalk, slate etc., or such a cylinder or strip inserted in a small wooden rod intended to be pointed, or in a case, which forms a handle, -- used for drawing or writing. See Graphite..

Schist :: Schist (n.) Any crystalline rock having a foliated structure (see Foliation) and hence admitting of ready division into slabs or slates. The common kinds are mica schist, and hornblendic schist, consisting chiefly of quartz with mica or hornblende and often feldspar..

Fault :: Fault (n.) In coal seams, coal rendered worthless by impurities in the seam; as, slate fault, dirt fault, etc..

Pipestone :: Pipestone (n.) A kind of clay slate, carved by the Indians into tobacco pipes. Cf. Catlinite..

Metempsychose :: Metempsychose (v. t.) To translate or transfer, as the soul, from one body to another..

Slate :: Slate (v. t.) An artificial material, resembling slate, and used for the above purposes..

Slater :: Slater (n.) One who lays slates, or whose occupation is to slate buildings..

Ripper :: Ripper (n.) A tool for trimming the edges of roofing slates.

Log :: Log (n.) Hence: The record of the rate of ship's speed or of her daily progress; also, the full nautical record of a ship's cruise or voyage; a log slate; a log book..

Translate :: Translate (v. t.) To cause to remove from one part of the body to another; as, to translate a disease..

Gneissoid :: Gneissoid (a.) Resembling gneiss; having some of the characteristics of gneiss; -- applied to rocks of an intermediate character between granite and gneiss, or mica slate and gneiss..

Slater :: Slater (n.) Any terrestrial isopod crustacean of the genus Porcellio and allied genera; a sow bug.

Translation :: Translation (n.) The act of translating, removing, or transferring; removal; also, the state of being translated or removed; as, the translation of Enoch; the translation of a bishop..

Slate :: Slate (v. t.) A thin plate of any material; a flake.

Ericius :: Ericius (n.) The Vulgate rendering of the Hebrew word qip/d, which in the Authorized Version is translated bittern, and in the Revised Version, porcupine..

Phyllite :: Phyllite (n.) Clay slate; argillaceous schist.

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