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▪ I. ˈsparry, a.1
[Cf. speary a.1 1.]
? Hard, stiff.
1641Best Farm. Bks. (Surtees) 28 Whearas most of the grasse..is a small, sparrie, and dry grasse, and sheepe doe not like it.
▪ II. sparry, a.2|ˈspɑːrɪ|
[f. spar n.2]
1. Consisting of, abounding in, spar; of the nature of spar.
1695Woodward Nat. Hist. Earth iv. 192 The Water..taking the Sparry Particles as they lay dispersedly mingled with the Sand. 1713Derham Phys.-Theol. 64 note, One or more vast Stones, which..are incrustated with this Sparry, Stalactical Substance, if not wholly made of it. 1749Phil. Trans. XLVI. 276 Among the great Numbers of sparry Productions which I saw in this Mine. 1778Pryce Min. Cornub. 28 Neither have we yet seen a perfect Sparry Rhomb in Cornwall. 1812Brackenridge Views Louisiana (1814) 66, I have seen some pieces penetrated with sparry matter. 1851Mantell Petrifactions vi. §6. 482 Upon breaking through the sparry floor [of the cave] the ossiferous deposit is exposed. 1877Le Conte Elem. Geol. ii. (1879) 225 Certain mineral matters..in a purer and more sparry form than they exist in the rocks.
b. Impregnated with spar.
1724J. Macky Journ. thr. Eng. II. xii. 201 From it continually drops a sparry water, which..petrifies. 1782Phil. Trans. LXXII. 203 Nor is there an instance of any earth rendered permanently fluid by any means, except in sparry air.
c. Of places: Rich in spar.
1789E. Darwin Bot. Gard. i. (1791) 130 Graces and Loves..On venturous step her sparry caves explore. 1806Moore ‘I stole along the flowery bank’ ii. 9 Oh for a Naiad's sparry bower, To shade me in that glowing hour! 1847Disraeli Tancred v. v, With pendants hanging like stalactites from some sparry cavern. 1886Ruskin Præterita I. v. 152 The sparry walks at Matlock.
2. In specific terms denoting mineral substances of the nature of, or containing spar, as sparry iron (ore).
1796Kirwan Elem. Min. (ed. 2) II. 190 Calcareous, or Sparry Iron Ore. 1797Encycl. Brit. (ed. 3) XV. 751/2 The sparry quartz, which is the scarcest of the whole. 1800tr. Lagrange's Chem. II. 95 Bog iron-ore and sparry-ore appear, in a great measure, to be formed by this combination. 1805R. Jameson Min. II. 308 Sparry Ironstone... Colour light yellowish-grey. 1816P. Cleaveland Min. 552 Thus it is associated with..gray copper, sparry iron, &c. 1854tr. Pereira's Polarized Light (ed. 2) 128 Selenite, or sparry gypsum, is the native crystallised hydrated sulphate of lime. 1868Joynson Metals 6 The spathose ores—‘chalybeate’, ‘sparry carbonite of iron’. 1875J. Croll Climate & T. xviii. 308 The rock in which they are found is a sparry iron ore.
b. sparry acid, hydrofluoric acid.
1796Kirwan Elem. Min. (ed. 2) II. 3 The sparry acid exists principally in fluor spar.
3. Of lustre, etc.: Resembling that of spar.
1792S. Rogers Pleas. Mem. ii. 251 A cool sequestered grot From its rich roof a sparry lustre shot. 1820Blackw. Mag. VI. 385 Icicles..gleam in the sunshine with a sparry light. c1830N. P. Willis Schol. Thebet Ben Khorat 65 The sparry glinting of the Morning Star. 1845Bailey Festus (ed. 2) 266 Full of all sparkling sparry loveliness. |