lyddite
Americannoun
noun
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an explosive consisting chiefly of fused picric acid
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a dense black variety of chert, formerly used as a touchstone
Etymology
Origin of lyddite
1885–90; named after Lydd, borough in SE England near the site where it was first tested; see -ite 1
Example Sentences
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But with her livid, purple face and protruding, bloodshot eyeballs uplifted to the drifting cloud of greenish lyddite vapour that thinned away overhead, she was great and terrible, and the very incarnation of Maternity Bereft.
From The Dop Doctor by Dehan, Richard
The long mound of raw red earth, crusted with greenish-yellow streaks of lyddite from the bursting-charges, rises now immediately before him.
From The Dop Doctor by Dehan, Richard
Sir George White's lyddite shells were discovered to be more effective than those of the Boers, many of which were charged with sand, and jocosely said to be "made in Germany."
From South Africa and the Transvaal War, Vol. 2 (of 6) From the Commencement of the War to the Battle of Colenso, 15th Dec. 1899 by Creswicke, Louis
Their clothing, hands and faces were stained yellow from the lyddite fumes.
From "The Red Watch" With the First Canadian Division in Flanders by Currie, John Allister
Such faces I did not think could be worn by human beings; they were orange with lyddite smoke.
From The Childrens' Story of the War, Volume 3 (of 10) by Parrott, James Edward
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