† sideˈrites Obs.
= siderite1 (senses 1–3).
| 1553 Eden Treat. New Ind. (Arb.) 14 That whiche is of the coloure of yron is called siderites. 1601 Holland Pliny II. 629 Siderites is much like to yron: and supposed it is, That..it will breed discord and maintain dissention still. Of this Siderites is made another stone,..called Sideropœcilos, for the sundry spots therein. 1611 Cotgr., Siderite, the yron-like stone Siderites, which, as some imagine, hath power to set men at oddes. 1750 Leonardus' Mirr. Stones 233 Siderites, is a Stone in Colour not much unlike Iron. 1794 Sullivan View Nat. I. 469 Regulus of manganese, siderites, and regulus of molybdena. |