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▪ I. spathose, a.1 Min.|spæˈθəʊs|
[f. spath1 + -ose2. Cf. spathic a.1]
1. Of the nature of or resembling spath or spar; abounding in, consisting of, spar; foliated or lamellar in structure or texture; sparry.
a. spathose iron, spathose iron-ore, spathose ore, = siderite 6.
1776Phil. Trans. LXVI. 620 The first experiment [was with] white spathose iron ore from Bayreuth. 1799Hull Advertiser 7 Sept. 4/2 White or yellowish spathose iron. 1801Phil. Trans. XCI. 190 These cavities are analogous to those which appear in the crystals of the spathose ores of iron. 1823W. Phillips Min. (ed. 3) 236 Spathose iron..occurs of a wine yellow, brownish yellow, yellowish brown and brown colour. 1868Joynson Metals 6 The celebrated ‘steel irons’ of Siegen, Styria, and Carinthia have always been produced from the spathose ores.
b. In general use.
1802Playfair Illustr. Huttonian Theory 67 All these stones have a tendency to a spathose structure. 1822J. Parkinson Outl. Oryctol. 22 Calcareous spathose wood previously bituminized. 1856S. P. Woodward Mollusca iii. 76 Shell external, spathose layer produced beyond the phragmocone into a long pointed beak.
†2. Derived from fluor-spar. spathose acid, hydrofluoric acid. Obs.
1811Pinkerton Petral. II. 139 The fluor is of various colours;..yielding much phosphorescence when thrown on hot iron, as well as a spathose acid gas.
▪ II. spaˈthose, a.2 Bot. rare.
[f. spath-e or spath-a + -ose2.]
= spathaceous a.1
1839G. Roberts Dict. Geol., Spathose, resembling the covering of the date. 1847in Webster.
So ˈspathous a. (Webster, 1828–32). |