Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for BREIS'LA-KITE
BREIS'LA-KITE, n.
A newly discovered Vesuvian mineral, resembling a brownish or reddish brown down, which lines the small bubbles found in the lava of Scalla, and is found in cavities of the lava of Olebano; named from Breislak, a celebrated Italian naturalist. – Journ. of Science.
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