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AUGITE, an important member of the pyroxene (?.».) group of rock-forming minerals. The name (from abyii, lustre) has at various times been used in different senses; it is now applied to aluminous pyroxenes of the monoclinic series which are darkgreenish, brown ...

AUGER (from the O. Eng. nafu-gdr, nave-borer; the original initial n having been lost, as in " adder," through a confusion in the case of a preceding indefinite article), a tool for boring (q.v.) or drilling.

SUITE (Suite de pieces; Ordre; Partita), in music, a group of dance tunes, mostly in binary form, of a type which may be described as " decorative " (see SONATA FORMS) ; constituting that classical form of early iSth-century instrumental music which most nearl

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... orange-yellow. The mineral occurs as isolated crystals and small masses in the augite-syenite near Brevik in South Norway; also at Arendal, and in the gem-gravels of Ceylon. If found in larger amount it would be an important source of thoria for incandescent ...