augen

American  

[au-guhn] / ˈaʊ gən /

plural noun

auge singular

1. Geology. flat, oval, or eye-shaped crystals in metamorphic rock, produced by directed shearing or squeezing.

---

augen Scientific  

/ ou′gən /

1. A large mineral grain or grain cluster having the shape of an eye in cross-section and occurring in foliated metamorphic rocks such as schist and gneiss. Augens form when large mineral crystals are sheared and deformed during the process of metamorphism.

---

Example Sentences

See Examples For:

augen auge

Der Breitmann lok so earnest,     Long and earnest at his foe, Ash if seein troo his augen     To de forty years ago.

From The Breitmann Ballads by Leland, Charles Godfrey

All these types are holocrystalline, and range in texture from coarse granite with augen an inch long down to a fine epidote granite with scarcely visible crystals.

From History and Comprehensive Description of Loudoun County, Virginia by Head, James William

The low grounds were crossed by the ice descending the Moray Firth in an easterly and south-easterly direction, which carried boulders of granite from Strath Nairn and augen gneiss from Easter Ross.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 3 "Electrostatics" to "Engis" by Various

Name applied by Pliny to a particular mineral, from the Greek αυγη, auge, lustre.

From Principles of Geology or, The Modern Changes of the Earth and its Inhabitants Considered as Illustrative of Geology by Lyell, Charles, Sir

The name is probably derived from an old Aryan word, meaning "sight" or "eye," which has come to us in the Greek αὐγή, and the German auge.

From Ten Great Religions An Essay in Comparative Theology by Clarke, James Freeman

Whethamstede had a study also at his manor at Tittinhanger, and had inscribed on it these lines: "Ipse Johannis amor Whethamstede ubique proclamor Ejus et alter honor hic lucis in auge reponer."

From Bibliomania in the Middle Ages by Merryweather, Frederick Somner