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Hornblendic   Listen
adjective
Hornblendic  adj.  Composed largely of hornblende; resembling or relating to hornblende.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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... great hardness, similar in all respects to those that are found in abundance on the shore of the Lake, or in the gravel-banks of that region. They are generally trap-rock, embracing the varieties of gray, porphyritic, hornblendic, sienitic, and amygdaloidal trap, and appear to have had no labor expended upon them except the chiselling of a groove around the middle for the purpose of attaching a withe to serve as a handle. In a few instances, I have noticed small hammers, usually egg-shaped, without a groove; and the battered ...
— The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 15, No. 89, March, 1865 • Various



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