Emily Dickinson Lexicon

Definition for COMP'TON-ITE

COMPT'NESS COM-PULS'A-TIVE, or COM-PULS'A-TORY

COMP'TON-ITE, n.

A newly discovered mineral, found in drusy cavities of masses ejected from Mount Vesuvius; so called from Lord Compton, who brought it to England in 1818. Ure.

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