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Calumbin :: Calumbin (n.) A bitter principle extracted as a white crystalline substance from the calumba root.

Calumnious :: Calumnious (a.) Containing or implying calumny; false, malicious, and injurious to reputation; slanderous; as, calumnious reports..

Bole :: Bole (n.) Any one of several varieties of friable earthy clay, usually colored more or less strongly red by oxide of iron, and used to color and adulterate various substances. It was formerly used in medicine. It is composed essentially of hydrous silicates of alumina, or more rarely of magnesia. See Clay, and Terra alba..

Bespatter :: Bespatter (v. t.) To asperse with calumny or reproach.

Ripidolite :: Ripidolite (n.) A translucent mineral of a green color and micaceous structure, belonging to the chlorite group; a hydrous silicate of alumina, magnesia, and iron; -- called also clinochlore..

Traducible :: Traducible (a.) Capable of being traduced or calumniated.

Sapphire :: Sapphire (n.) Native alumina or aluminium sesquioxide, Al2O3; corundum; esp., the blue transparent variety of corundum, highly prized as a gem..

Belibel :: Belibel (v. t.) To libel or traduce; to calumniate.

Aspersed :: Aspersed (a.) Bespattered; slandered; calumniated.

Calumniating :: Calumniating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Calumniat.

Laumontite :: Laumontite (n.) A mineral, of a white color and vitreous luster. It is a hydrous silicate of alumina and lime. Exposed to the air, it loses water, becomes opaque, and crumbles..

Cabazite :: Cabazite (n.) A mineral occuring in glassy rhombohedral crystals, varying, in color from white to yellow or red. It is essentially a hydrous silicate of alumina and lime. Called also chabasie..

Traduce :: Traduce (v. t.) To expose to contempt or shame; to represent as blamable; to calumniate; to vilify; to defame.

Stilt :: Stilpnomelane (n.) A black or greenish black mineral occurring in foliated flates, also in velvety bronze-colored incrustations. It is a hydrous silicate of iron and alumina..

Aluminiferous :: Aluminiferous (a.) Containing alum.

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..

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

Clay :: Clay (n.) A soft earth, which is plastic, or may be molded with the hands, consisting of hydrous silicate of aluminium. It is the result of the wearing down and decomposition, in part, of rocks containing aluminous minerals, as granite. Lime, magnesia, oxide of iron, and other ingredients, are often present as impurities..

Alumnae :: Alumnae (pl. ) of Alumn.

Natrolite :: Natrolite (n.) A zeolite occuring in groups of glassy acicular crystals, and in masses which often have a radiated structure. It is a hydrous silicate of alumina and soda..

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