Definition for SAH'LITE

SAH'LITE, n.

A mineral named from the mountain Sahla, in Westermania, where it was discovered. It is of a light greenish gray color, occurs massive, and composed of coarse granular concretions. It is called also malacolite; a subspecies or variety of augite. – Thomson. Ure.

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