kentrolite

[Named by Damour and Vom Rath. Gr. kentron =a spike; suff.- ite ( Min.).] Min.: A silicate of lead and manganese; ortho tinct; crystals very small, often in sheaf-like groups; hardne , 5; specific gravity, 6'19; color, dark reddish-brown, blackish on the surface. Found with quartz, barytes, and apatite in a brecciated quartz rock in Southern Chili. Kěn-tück-ỹ, s. [Am. Indian=the dark and bloody ground.] One of the States of the U.S. A., nicknamed "the Blue Gra State," and also "the Corn-Cracker State." Bounded W. by the Mi i ippi river, which separates it from Mi ouri, NW. and N. by the Ohio river, which separates it from Illinois, Indiana and Ohio, E. by West Virginia and Virginia, and S. by Tenne ee. Area, 40,400 square miles. The name of Kentucky, "the dark and bloody ground," is an epitome of the State's early history of the dark and bloody conflicts with the Indians. The country was formerly part of the Ter ritory of Virginia, but was separated from it in 1789, 2427 and in 1792 was admitted as a State of the U. S. A. In the fertility of its soil Kentucky rivals the most favored parts of the great Mi i ippi Valley. The kerchiefed are found-viz., syphilitic, strumous or scrofulous ophthalmia, and pustular corneitis. Keratitis, when a ociated with suppuration, as in small-pox, Cumber land and Tenne ee rivers have their sources and other affections, is called onyx, from its in the mountain districts, and after traversing the resemblance to the lunula of the nail. Perforation State empty into the Ohio. The principal products into the anterior chamber, causing hypopion, some- are tobacco, cereals and hemp. A large amount of times happens, when pus or shreds of lymph capital is invested in live-stock. Principal minerals accumulate there, or its inward perforation may are coal, lead and zinc. Principal cities, Louisville, the metropolis; Coving ton, Newport, Lexington, Frankfort, the capital, and Paducah. kěp, v. t. [KEEP, v.] To catch, as in the act of pa ing through the air, falling, .; to intercept. ( Scotch.)