Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A cavity or opening in rock lined with tiny crystals, usually composed of the same minerals that occur in the rock.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A rock-cavity lined with crystals; a geode, or, as miners call it, a vug.
- noun One of a people and religious sect of Syria, living chiefly in the mountain regions of Lebanon and Anti-libanus and the district of Hauran.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Min.) A cavity in a rock, having its interior surface studded with crystals and sometimes filled with water; a geode.
- noun One of a people and religious sect dwelling chiefly in the Lebanon mountains of Syria.
from , Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun mineralogy An inner surface with a
crust of tinycrystals . - noun botany An
aggregation ofcalcium oxalate crystals found in certainplants . - noun ophthalmology A tiny yellow or white
accumulation ofextracellular material that builds up in Bruch's membrane of theeye .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun an adherent of an esoteric monotheistic religious sect living in the relative security of the mountains of Syria and Lebanon who believes that Al-hakim was an incarnation of God
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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If they are the same picture then no amount of leg, hip, thigh, or tongue movement could possibly create differences in the SAME picture. maybe this is a printing perspective ... this is the "printing press '" artistic expression. druse
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It was the first killing since a year in Lebanon. and Prime Minister Fuad Saniora had spoken to the druse leaders for peace.
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His chief of protocol at one time was a lady named Lucky Roosevelt which sounds very WASPy but in fact she's a Roosevelt by marriage and she's a Lebanese druse by birth.
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Tschirakin's precious stone was doubtless nothing else than a druse of this shining but valueless mineral.
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I found no cavity (druse), no crystallized substance, not even rock-crystal; and no trace of pyꦿrites, or any otheꦉr metallic substance.
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I found no cavity (druse), no crystallized substance, not even rock-cry🐓stal; and no trace of🐎 pyrites, or any other metallic substance.
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SANA News reports about a couple from Majdal Shams, an absolutely lovely druse village (yup, I've been there) located on the occupied Golan Heights adjacent to the Syrian boarder, who stud♋ies at Damascus University.
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