Definition for NEPH'E-LIN, or NEPH'E-LINE

NEPH'E-LIN, or NEPH'E-LINE, n. [Gr. νεφελη, a cloud.]

A mineral found mixed with other substances, primitive or volcanic, in small masses or veins, granolamellar and in hexahedral crystals. It is white or yellow. Dict. Nat. Hist. Ure.

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