Definition of Quartzy

1. a. Quartzose.

Definition of Quartzy

1. like quartz [adj QUARTZIER, QUARTZIEST]

Medical Definition of Quartzy

1. Quartzose. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

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Lexicographical Neighbors of Quartzy

quartz
quartz
quartzes
quartzier
quartziferous
quartzite
quartzite
quartzites
quartzitic
quartzoid
quartzose
quartzose
quartzous
quartzous
quartzy
quartzy
quartz battery
quartz crystal
quartz glass
quartz glass
quartz lamp
quartz mill
quartz oscillator
quartz wedge
quasar
quasars
quash
quashed
quashee
quashees

Literary usage of Quartzy

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1. A Gazetteer of the Territories Under the Government of the East-India by Edward Thornton (1854)
"... or rather quartzy 1 journ. A«. Soc. sandstone, and greywacke slate." Herbert.4 however, maintains IL'nz. 1812, clii. . . of'mmn'ia^'tt"^ considered ..."

2. Outlines of an Attempt to Establish a Knowledge of Extraneous Fossils on by William Martin (1809)
"... in which stones of the siliceous order are most abundant. A siliceous soil may be a. 144. Quartzy ( S. ..."

3. A Report on the Geological Survey of Connecticut by Connecticut Geological Survey, Charles Upham Shepard (1837)
"177 Quartzy mica-slate. Brownish white. Killingly, Bolles and Tyler's quarry. ... 1796 Quartzy mica-slate. Greenish white. Killingly, near Young's factory. ..."

4. The Edinburgh Philosophical Journal by David Brewster, Robert Jameson, Royal Society of Edinburgh (1819)
"2. ; this has resting upon it a bed of quartzy sandstone, in many parts equally ... Over these are alternations of beds of slate-clay and quartzy sandstone, ..."

5. Grand Feu Ceramics: A Practical Treatise on the Making of Fine Porcelain and by Taxile Doat, Charles Fergus Binns (1905)
"Cobalt blue for gres: Cobalt oxide 3,0 Bougival chalk 14,1 Feldspar from the Pyrenees 42,1 *• oxidising Quartzy sand of Nemours 27,2 Dry clayey kaolin of ..."

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