weissIgite (w as v)

[After Wei ig, near Dresden, where found; suff. -ite ( Min.).] Min .: A variety of orthoclase felspar occurring in very small whitish twinned crystals in cavities of an amygdaloidal rock. wei -ite (was v), subst . [After the crystallographer, Prof. Wei , of Berlin; suff. -ite . ( Min .).] Min.: An altered form of Iolite (q. v.), resembling fahlunite in most of its characters, and included by Dana under that species. *weive (1), v. t. & i. [WAIVE.] *weive (2), v . t . [WEAVE.] wēize, verb trans. [WHIZ.] To drive with force. ( Scotch.) "I had weized the slugs through him, though I am but sic a little feckle body."-Scott: Guy Manner ing, ch. xxxii.