Lava
['lɑːvə] or ['lɑvə]
Definition
(noun.) rock that in its molten form (as magma) issues from volcanos; lava is what magma is called when it reaches the surface.
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Definition
(n.) The melted rock ejected by a volcano from its top or fissured sides. It flows out in streams sometimes miles in length. It also issues from fissures in the earth's surface, and forms beds covering many square miles, as in the Northwestern United States.
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Examples
- The bridges are of a single span--a single arch--of cut stone, without a support, and paved on top with flags of lava and ornamental pebblework. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- The walls of the ditch were brilliant with yellow banks of sulphur and with lava and pumice-stone of many colors. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- And every road is fenced in by tall, solid lava walls, which will last a thousand years in this land where frost is unknown. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- Seen near, it was a chaos--hollowhalf-consumed: an orb perished or perishing--half lava, half glow. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- Hall next experimented with lava f rom Vesuvius, Etna, Iceland, and elsewhere, and found that it behaved like whinstone. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- These hundreds of green squares, marked by their black lava walls, make the hills look like vast checkerboards. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- The old man listened in astonishment to this lava-torrent of words which swept everything before it. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- It rested on volcanic rocks and was itself covered with basalt, that is, lava which had crystallized under the sea. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- The red lava of deep revolutionary fires oozed up through many glowing cracks in the political crust, and all the social strata were shaken. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Drift, sand, rubble, boulders, come next; and finally volcanic products, like lava, ashes, pumice. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- These first rocks must have solidified as a cake over glowing liquid material beneath, much as cooling lava does. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- He was afterwards killed in the lava beds of Southern Oregon, while in pursuit of the hostile Modoc Indians. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- Why do basalts, whin stones, and other supposedly volcanic rocks differ so much in structure from lava? Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
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