in natural history, a name given by our miners to a glittering sort of stone, which often occurs in their works; and, as it is unprofitable substance, is one of those things they call weeds. The word daze takes in with them every stone that is hard and glittering; and therefore it comprehends the whole genus of the talcian, or stony modules, which have the flake of talc in their substance: these, according to the colour of the stony matter they are bedded in, and their own colour, give the names of black daze, whites, red, and yellow daze, to these stones.