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 embossed round silver pieces, usually of Mexican workmanship, used on a saddle.
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The science of testaceous mollusks; conchology.
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One who studies, or is versed in, conchology.
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The texture of a freshly broken surface; as, a compact fracture; an even, hackly, or conchoidal fracture.
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An instrument for measuring shells, or the angle of their spire.
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See Conchologist, and Conchology.
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The science of Mollusca, and of the shells which they form; malacology.
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The art of measuring shells or their curves; conchyliometry.
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Having elevations or depressions in form like one half of a bivalve shell; -- applied principally to a surface produced by fracture.
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A massive, somewhat impure variety of quartz, in color usually of a gray to brown or nearly black, breaking with a conchoidal fracture and sharp edge. It is very hard, and strikes fire with steel.
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Any substance having a peculiar glassy appearance, and a conchoidal fracture, and usually produced by fusion.
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Same as Conchometry.
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A hard, brittle, translucent, and commonly transparent substance, white or colored, having a conchoidal fracture, and made by fusing together sand or silica with lime, potash, soda, or lead oxide. It is used for window panes and mirrors, for articles of table and culinary use, for lenses, and various articles of ornament.
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A curve, of the fourth degree, first made use of by the Greek geometer, Nicomedes, who invented it for the purpose of trisecting an angle and duplicating the cube.
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Pertaining to, or connected with, conchology.
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A kind of spiral curve found in certain univalve shells.
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