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Definition of Lavalike

1. resembling lava [adj] - See also: lava

Lexicographical Neighbors of Lavalike

Literary usage of Lavalike

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

1. Desert Gold by Zane Grey (1913)
"... his inscrutability, the lavalike hardness of his face, although they did not change, seemed to give forth light, gentleness, loyalty. ..."

2. Street Pavements and Paving Materials: A Manual of City Pavements: the by George William Tillson (1912)
"Other clays will melt and become glassy and lavalike, as is so often •een in arch-bricks of an old-fashioned wood-burning kiln. Argillaceous matter as a ..."

3. Street Pavements and Paving Materials: A Manual of City Pavements: the by George William Tillson (1900)
"Other clays will melt and become glassy and lavalike, as is so often seen in arch-bricks of an old-fashioned wood-burning kiln. Argillaceous matter as a ..."

4. The French People by Arthur Hassall (1901)
"... only remained an active force during the reign of the great emperor, and at his death was buried under the lavalike stream of feudalism. ..."

5. For the Pleasure of His Company: An Affair of the Misty City, Thrice Told by Charles Warren Stoddard (1903)
"The cliff towering at the junction of the two thoroughfares shared with each its generous mud-flow and half of it descended in lavalike cascades into the ..."

6. A Text-book of Geology by Albert Perry Brigham (1900)
"At last it would, at least in places, cease to glow, and lavalike crusts would form, only to be broken up from time to time and be reabsorbed, enacting on a ..."

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