Emily Dickinson Lexicon

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. {foreign}, stone, and {foreign}, 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. {foreign}, stone, and {foreign}, divination.]

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

LITH-O-MAR'GA, or LITH'O-MARGE, n. [Gr. {foreign}, 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. {foreign}, stone, and {foreign}, 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-THRYPTOR, or LITH-ON-TRIP'TOR, n.

An instrument for breaking the stone in the bladder.

LI-THOPH'A-GOUS, a. [Gr. {foreign}, stone, and {foreign}, to eat.]

Eating or swallowing stones or gravel, as the ostrich.

LITH'O-PHOS-PHOR, n. [Gr. {foreign}, stone, and {foreign}.]

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. {foreign}, stone, and {foreign}, a leaf.]

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

LITH'O-PHYTE, n. [Gr. {foreign}, stone, and {foreign}, 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. {foreign}, stone, and {foreign}, to cut.]

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

LITH-O-TOM'IC, a.

Pertaining to or performed by lithotomy.

LI-THOT'O-MIST, n. [See Lithotomy.]

One who performs the operation of cutting for the stone in the bladder; or one who is skilled in the operation.

LI-THOT'O-MY, a. [Gr. {foreign}, stone, and {foreign}, to cut.]

The operation, art or practice of cutting for the stone in the bladder.

LITH'O-TRIP-SY, n.

The operation of triturating the stone in the bladder by means of an instrument called lithotriptor.

LITH'OTRIP-TIST, n.

One skilled in breaking and extracting stone in the bladder.

LITH'O-TRIP-TOR, n. [Gr. {foreign}, a stone, and {foreign}, to grind.]

An instrument fur triturating the stone in the bladder, so that it may be extracted without cutting, recently invented by Dr. Civiale.

LI-THOX'YLE, a. [Gr. {foreign}, a stone, and {foreign}, wood.]

Petrified wood. It differs from lignite, being really changed into stone; such as silicified woods, which are changed into varieties of sitex, &c. Dict. Nat. Hist.

LITH'Y, a. [See Lithe.]

Easily bent; pliable. [This is probably the word which, in our popular use, is pronounced lathy.]