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GALLINACEUS LAPIS

Volume 7 · 49 words · 1797 Edition

a glossy substance produced by volcanic fires; the same with the lapis obfidiatus of the ancients. A kind of it is brought from Paris, of a beautiful black, resembling the colour of a large crow in that country named gallimago.

GALLINÆ, in ornithology, an order of birds. See Ornithology.