Emily Dickinson Lexicon

BO'TRY-O-LITE, n. [Gr. βοτρυς, supra, and λιθος, a stone.]

Literally, grape-stone. This mineral occurs in mammillary or botryoidal concretions, in a bed of magnetic iron in gneiss, near Arendal in Norway. Its colors are pearl-gray, grayish or reddish white, and pale rose-red, and form concentric stripes. – Cyc. Botryolite is a variety of silicious borate of lime. It is found near the Passaic falls in New Jersey. – Cleaveland.