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Granite
Open directlyWebster's 1828 Dictionary · 1828
Part of speech: noun (n.)
A crystalline, granular rock, consisting of quartz, feldspar, and mica, and usually of a whitish, grayish, or flesh-red color. It differs from gneiss in not having the mica in planes, and therefor in being destitute of a schistose structure.