perrhotine, perrhotite

[Gr. pyrrhotes Min.: A mineral isomorphous with greenockite (q.v.). Crystallization, hexagonal; cleavage, basal, perfect. Rarely crystallized. Hardne , 3.5-45; specific gravity, 44-468; luster, metallic; color, when fresh, bronze-yellow, but tarnishes on exposure to a dark copper-red; streak, dark grayish black; brittle; slightly magnetic. Composition: Mostly sulphur, 395; iron, 60*5=100, corresponding with the formula, FeSs, but these proportions are somewhat variable. Frequently contains nickel, the nickeliferous pyrrhotites yielding most of the nickel of commerce. =reddish; suff. -ine, -ite ( Min.).] pýr-rho-tite, s . [PYRRHOTINE.] pỹr-rhu-lạ, s. [Gr. pyrrhos =fire-red.] Ornith.: Bullfinch; a genus of Fringillide, with nine species, ranging over the Pale arctic region to the Azores and High Him a lay as. Bill short, as 3313 high and broad as long, tumid, tip slightly compre ed and overhanging; feet formed for perching, rather broad in the sole; tail truncate, emarginate, rather long. pěr'-rěl, s. [Eng. pyr(omucic); -ol.] exposure to the air, and imparts a purple stain to fir wood previously moistened with hydrochloric acid. IMG:content-0029.png:[blocks in formation] pythonidæ universe was a fire, around which the sun, moon, and planets, with the celestial sphere itselt, re volved. These were either themselves gods, or had their movements directed by gods. There existed a music of the spheres, the celestial bodies dancing a choral dance around the central fire. The soul of man was an emanation from the universal soul of the world. There was a transmigration of souls. Flesh and beans were not to be eaten. Nature was in uniformity with the will of the Deity, and human life should make an approach to the harmony of Nature. The Pythagorean system declined about B. C. 300, but revived two centuries later, and in the August an age the views of its advocates as to the past changes which the earth had undergone through the operation of fire, water, . ( Orid : Meta morph ., bk. xv.), were e entially so sound as to excite the commendation of Sir Charles Lyell. ( Princip . of Geol . , bk. i., ch. i.) py-thăg-or-ize, v. i. [Gr. pythagorizō.] Το speculate after the manner of Pythagoras. pyth-I-ăd, s. [PYTHIAN.] Greek Antiq.: The interval between one celebration of the Pythian games and another. Pyth-i-an, & [Lat. Pythius ; Gr. Pythios =