Emily Dickinson Lexicon

LITH-O-GLYPH'ITE, n. [Gr. λιθος, stone, and γλυφω, to engrave.]

A fossil that presents the appearance of being engraved or shaped by art. – Lunier.

LITH'O-GRAPH, v.t.

To engrave or trace letters or figures on stone, and transfer them to paper, &c.

LITH'O-GRAPH-ED, pp.

Formed by engravings on Stone.

LI-THOG'RA-PHER, n. [See Lithography.]

One who practices lithography.

LITH-O-GRAPH'IC, or LITH-O-GRAPH'IC-AL, a.

Pertaining to lithography.

LITH-O-GRAPH'IC-ALLY, adv.

By the lithographic art.

LITH'O-GRAPH-ING, ppr.

Forming by letters or figures on stone.

LI-THOG'RA-PHY, n. [Gr. λιθος, stone, and γραφω, to engrave or write.]

The art of tracing letters, figures or other designs on stone, and of transferring them to paper by impression; an art recently invented by Mr. Sennefelder of Munich, in Bavaria. – Journ. of Science.

LITH-OID'AL, a. [A corruption of the word lithoid.]

Like a stone.

LITH-O-LOG'IC, or LITH-O-LOG'IC-AL, a. [See Lithology.]

Pertaining to the science of stones.

LI-THOL'O-GIST, n.

A person skilled in the science of stones.

LI-THOL'O-GY, n. [Gr. λιθος, stone, and λογος, discourse.]

1. The science or natural history of stones. – Fourcroy.
2. A treatise on stones found in the body. – Coxe.

LITH'O-MAN-CY, n. [Gr. λιθος, stone, and μαντεια, divination.]

Divination or prediction of events by means of stones. – Brown.

LITH-O-MAR'GA, or LITH'O-MARGE, n. [Gr. λιθος, stone, and L. marga, marl.]

An earth of two species, friable and indurated, more silicious than aluminous, distinguished by its great fineness and its fusibility into a soft slag. – Dict. Nat. Hist. Kirwan. Ure.

LITH-ON-THRYP'TIC, or LITH-ON-TRYP'TIC, a. [Gr. λιθος, stone, and θρυπτω, to wear or break.]

Having the quality of destroying the stone in the bladder or kidneys.

LITH-ON-THRYP'TIC, or LITH-ON-TRYP'TIC, n.

A medicine which has the power of destroying the stone in the bladder or kidneys; a solvent of stone in the human urinary passages. – Coxe.

LITH-ON-THRYP'TOR, or LITH-ON-TRIP'TOR, n.

An instrument for breaking the stone in the bladder.

LI-THOPH'A-GOUS, a. [Gr. λιθος, stone, and φαγω, to eat.]

Eating or swallowing stones or gravel, as the ostrich.

LITH'O-PHOS-PHOR, n. [Gr. λιθος, stone, and φοςφορος.]

A stone that becomes phosphoric by heat. – Dict. Nat. Hist.

LITH-O-PHOS-PHOR'IC, a.

Pertaining to lithophosphor; becoming phosphoric by heat.

LITH'O-PHYL, n. [Gr. λιθος, stone, and φυλλον, a leaf.]

Bibliolite or lithobiblion, fossil leaves, or the figures of leaves on fossils.

LITH'O-PHYTE, n. [Gr. λιθος, stone, and φυτον, a plant; literally, stone-plant.]

Stone-coral; a name given to those species of polypiers, whose substance is stony. The older naturalists classed them with vegetables. – Currier. Ray.

LITH-O-PHYT'IC, a.

Pertaining to lithophytes.

LITH-OPH'Y-TOUS, a.

Pertaining to or consisting of lithophytes.

LITH'O-TOME, n. [Gr. λιθος, stone, and τεμνω, to cut.]

A stone so formed naturally as to appear as if cut artificially. – Dict. Nat. Hist.