Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for LUM'A-CHEL, or LUM-A-CHEL'LA
LUM'A-CHEL, or LUM-A-CHEL'LA, n.
A calcarious stone composed of shells and coral conglutinated, but so far retaining their organization as to exhibit different colors, and so hard as to admit of polish. – Nicholson. Fourcroy.
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