Definition of Schliere

1. a small streak in an igneous rock [n -REN]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Schliere

schlemiel
schlemiels
schlemihl
schlemihls
schlep
schlepp
schlepped
schlepper
schleppers
schlepping
schlepps
schleppy
schleps
schlich
schlichs
schliere (current term)
schlieren
schlieren method
schlieren photography
schlieric
schlimazel
schlimazels
schlock
schlockbuster
schlockbusters
schlockier
schlockiest
schlockmeister
schlockmeisters
schlocks

Literary usage of Schliere

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Proceedings by Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain), Norton Shaw, Francis Galton, William Spottiswoode, Clements Robert Markham, Henry Walter Bates, John Scott Keltie (1891)
"One of these, the Kleine schliere, ... No less than sixty-three weirs have been built across one of the tributary streams of the schliere, ..."

2. Crofutt's New Overland Tourist, and Pacific Coast Guide ...: Over the Union by George A. Crofutt (1880)
"(schliere predominates. "Rich to-day, poor tomorrow," is the rule. All gamble in mining stocks, from the boot-black or servant girl to the Rev. ..."

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