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Alumnus :: Alumnus (n.) A pupil; especially, a graduate of a college or other seminary of learning..

Cryolite :: Cryolite (n.) A fluoride of sodium and aluminum, found in Greenland, in white cleavable masses; -- used as a source of soda and alumina..

Thomsenolite :: Thomsenolite (n.) A fluoride of aluminium, calcium, and sodium occurring with the cryolite of Greenland..

Alumni :: Alumni (pl. ) of Alumnu.

Wither :: Wither (v. t.) To cause to languish, perish, or pass away; to blight; as, a reputation withered by calumny..

Neogen :: Neogen (n.) An alloy resembling silver, and consisting chiefly of copper, zinc, and nickel, with small proportions of tin, aluminium, and bismuth..

Whitleather :: Whitleather (n.) Leather dressed or tawed with alum, salt, etc., remarkable for its pliability and toughness; white leather..

Alumna :: Alumna (n. fem.) A female pupil; especially, a graduate of a school or college..

Colombin :: Colombin (n.) See Calumbin.

Websterite :: Websterite (n.) A hydrous sulphate of alumina occurring in white reniform masses.

Variscite :: Variscite (n.) An apple-green mineral occurring in reniform masses. It is a hydrous phosphate of alumina.

Wootz :: Wootz (n.) A species of steel imported from the East Indies, valued for making edge tools; Indian steel. It has in combination a minute portion of alumina and silica..

Zunyite :: Zunyite (n.) A fluosilicate of alumina occurring in tetrahedral crystals at the Zu/i mine in Colorado.

Alum :: Alum (v. t.) To steep in, or otherwise impregnate with, a solution of alum; to treat with alum..

Blaspheme :: Blaspheme (v.) Figuratively, of persons and things not religiously sacred, but held in high honor: To calumniate; to revile; to abuse..

Argil :: Argil (n.) Clay, or potter's earth; sometimes pure clay, or alumina. See Clay..

Earth :: Earth (n.) Any earthy-looking metallic oxide, as alumina, glucina, zirconia, yttria, and thoria..

Dogger :: Dogger (n.) A sort of stone, found in the mines with the true alum rock, chiefly of silica and iron..

Pyrophorus :: Pyrophorus (n.) Any one of several substances or mixtures which phosphoresce or ignite spontaneously on exposure to air, as a heated mixture of alum, potash, and charcoal, or a mixture of charcoal and finely divided lead..

Sodalite :: Sodalite (n.) A mineral of a white to blue or gray color, occuring commonly in dodecahedrons, also massive. It is a silicate of alumina and soda with some chlorine..

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