Meanings of steatite in English

Brother Kmoch went up the mountain, and brought some fine specimens of steatite.

The other minerals so common are the varieties of steatite.

An hour-glass shaped tube made of gray hydro-mica schist, which resembles very compact steatite.

Pipe of gray, indurated steatite, of modern Cherokee manufacture.

He figures one from Isle of Wight County, Va., "made of compact steatite."

The bowl was of soft stone, apparently steatite, which, when fresh, is easily fashioned with a knife.

Some were smoking short chibouques, with stems of wood and bowls of soft steatite colored a yellowish red.

The body is of cast-iron; the cover, funnel, and chimney are of tin; and the burner is of steatite.

The zoologist carried a meerschaum; the guides smoked out of Indian calumets of the celebrated steatite, or red claystone.

Fragments of steatite vessels which have been from 1 to 2 feet in diameter.

It should be compared with stone work in Crete, especially the steatite vases with reliefs found at Hagia Triada.

The following produce beads with soda: steatite, meerschaum, felspar, albite, petalite, nepheline, anorthite, emerald, euclase, turquois, sodalite (Vesuvius).

The rock constituting the cliffs along the shore where we were encamped, is a talcous rock, or steatite, with brown spar.

As well as bone and ivory, shells, fossil coral, steatite, jet, lignite, hematite, and pyrite were used to make ornaments and objects.

This fault has now been reduced by a cage of steatite round the burner tip, which draws in sufficient air to prevent deposition.

Another two-flame burner, made of steatite, by J. von Schwarz of Nuremberg, and sold by L. Wiener of London, is shown in Fig.