descloizite (dacloizit)

[After A. L. O. Des Cloizeaux, a French mineralogist (born 1817).] ).] A rare vanadate of lead and zine, occurring in small black or dark-brown crystals. It is related in form and composition to the copper phosphate libethenite, and is found in the Argentine Republic, and in various localities in Arizona and New Mexico. describable (des-kri'ba-bl), a. [ Keith has reckoned up in the human body four hundred and forty-six muscles, di ectible and describable . Paley, Nat. Theol., ix. describe (des-krīb′), v.; pret. and pp. described, ppr. describing. [Earlier descrive (the form describe being a reversion to the L. form), He that would haue a sight of these things, let him resort to Thomaso Porcacchi his Funeral i Antichi, where these things are not only discoursed in words, but de scribed in artificiall pictures. Purchas , Pilgrimage, p. 396. 2. To form or trace by motion: as, a star de scribes an ellipse in the heavens. The bucket, which was a substitute for the earth, de scribing a circular orbit round about the globular head and ruby visage of Profe or Von Podding coft, which formed no bad representation of the sun. Irving, Knickerbocker, p. 39. IMG:content-2445.png:[blocks in formation] 1557 Seven of these stones [of the burnt pillar] now remain, though an exact describer of Constantinople says there were eight. Pococke , Description of the East, II. ii. 131. Our chronicler [the author of the book of Genesis] does not profe to be a zoologist, but only an observer and describer of a pa ing scene. Boardman , Creative Week, p. 157.