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from The Century Dictionary.
- Mixed with honey; sweetened.
- noun A rare mineral, first observed in the beds of brown-coal in Thuringia.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Min.) A mineral of a honey color, found in brown coal, and partly the result of vegetable decomposition; honeystone. It is a mellitate of alumina.
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- noun mineralogy An
mineral that is thealuminium salt ofmellitic acid ;honeystone
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bestiary commented on the word mellite
a mineral of a honey color, found in brown coal, and partly the result of vegetable decomposition; honeystone. it is a mellitate of alumina. (1913 webster's)
also used to mean sweet ca. 1420 (it's the feminine plural of itallian mellito sweet, honeyed). see mellify and mellifluous!
July 24, 2008