Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for A-PLOME'
A-PLA-NAT'ICAP-LUS'TER, or AP-LUS'TRE
A-PLOME', n. [Gr. ἁπλοος, simple.]
A mineral closely allied to garnet. It is considered by Jameson, as crystalized common garnet. It is a rare mineral, found in dodecahedrons, with rhombic faces, supposed to be derived from the cube, by one of the most simple laws of decrement, that of a single range of particles, parallel to all the edges of a cube. Haüy. Cleaveland.
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