Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for POL-Y-HA'LITE
PO-LYG'Y-NYPOL-Y-HE'DRAL, or POL-Y-HE'DROUS
POL-Y-HA'LITE, n. [Gr. πολυς, many, and ἁλς, salt.]
A mineral or salt occurring in masses of a fibrous structure, of a brick red color, being tinged with iron. It contains sulphate of lime, of magnesia, of potash and of soda. – Cleaveland.
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