Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for BRU'CITE
BRU'CITE, n.
A mineral, the chondrodite of Berzelius, which sometimes occurs in grains or imperfect crystals, sometimes in four-sided prisms with rhombic bases. It is so named from the late Dr. Bruce, a distinguished mineralogist of New York. – Cleaveland.
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