Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for BIB'LI-O-LITE
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BIB'LI-O-LITE, n. [Gr. βιβλιον, a book, and λιθος, a stone; called also Phytobiblia and Lithobiblia.]
Bookstone; a species of shistous stones, mostly calcarious, which present, between their lamins, the figures of leaves, or sometimes simple dendrites.
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