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Webster 1913 Edition
Slaty
Slat′y
,Adj.
[From
Slate
.] Resembling slate; having the nature, appearance, or properties, of slate; composed of thin parallel plates, capable of being separated by splitting;
as, a
. slaty
color or textureSlaty cleavage
(Min.)
, cleavage, as of rocks, into thin leaves or plates, like those of slate; – applied especially to those cases in which the planes of cleavage are not parallel to the planes of stratification. It is now believed to be caused by the compression which the strata have undergone.
– Slaty gneiss
(Min.)
, a variety of gneiss in which the scales of mica or crystals of hornblende, which are usually minute, form thin laminae, rendering the rock easily cleavable.
Webster 1828 Edition
Slaty
SLA'TY
,Adj.
Definition 2024
slaty
slaty
English
Adjective
slaty (comparative slatier, superlative slatiest)
- Resembling the mineral slate.
- 1933-03, Clark Ashton Smith, "The Isle of the Torturers", Weird Tales:
- Their faces and hands were yellow as saffron; their small and slaty eyes were set obliquely beneath lashless lids; and their thin lips, which smiled eternally, were crooked. as the blades of scimitars.
- 1933-03, Clark Ashton Smith, "The Isle of the Torturers", Weird Tales: