Crossword-Solution: BASANITE
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Basanite | n. | Lydian stone, or black jasper, a variety of siliceous or flinty slate, of a grayish or bluish black color. It is employed to test the purity of gold, the amount of alloy being indicated by the color left on the stone when rubbed by the metal. |
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| Word | Anagrams | |
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| BASANITE | anagram | ABSENTIA |
We have 4 clues for the answer “BASANITE”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Black quartz | 2 answers |
| QUARTZ, black | 2 answers |
| black-quartz | 2 answers |
| touchstone | 7 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
EERAT
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with BASANITE (5)
Let him be an old shepherd seated, showing with the forefinger of the right arm the place where the cattle were hidden, and leaning with the left arm on a stick or rod, the herdsman's staff; and from the waist downwards he must be of black stone of the colour of basanite, into which stone he was converted.
The lapis Lydius or Lydian Stone of the ancients—our basanite, commonly known as Touchstone—is a velvety black flinty jasper, used as much today as ever it was, for ascertaining the fineness and quality of gold and precious metals, and says Bacon, “Gold is tried by the touchstone and men by gold.” Its connection with Mercury is shown in the Greek story of the transformation of the betrayer Battus into Touchstone by the God.
The second group of rocks, as already mentioned, falls under the head of nepheline-basanite poor in olivine.
Although the specimens by their whole habit and structure belong under the head of nepheline-basanite poor in olivine, the presence of sanidine as phenocrysts causes them to form a transition to the group of phonolites.
Though perhaps with us the gracious basanite has often exceeded its pleasant office and demonstrated us to be quite mad.