Emily Dickinson Lexicon

DAT'O-LITE, or DATH'O-LITE, n.

The silicious borate of lime, a mineral of two subspecies, the common, and the botryoidal. The common is of a white color, of various shades, and greenish gray. It occurs in granular distinct concretions, and crystalized. The botryoidal occurs in mammillary concretions, or in botryoidal masses, white and earthy. It is named from its want of transparency. – Ure. Phillips.