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Webster 1913 Edition

Axinite

Ax′i-nite

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Noun.
[Named in allusion to the form of the crystals, fr. Gr. [GREEK] an ax.]
(Min.)
A borosilicate of alumina, iron, and lime, commonly found in glassy, brown crystals with acute edges.

Webster 1828 Edition

Axinite

AX'INITE

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Noun.
A mineral which sometimes occurs in lamellar masses, but commonly in crystals, whose general form is that of a very oblique rhomb, or rather, four-sided prism, so flattened that some of its edges become thin and sharp, like that of an ax; whence its name, Gr. This is the thumerstone of Kirwan. It has been sometimes called yanolite and violet shorl.

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