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melilite(dictionary)

peccadillo (iou) and melilite (medicine)


peccadillo (iou)



peccadillo noun. Pl. -oes, -os. L16.
[Spanish pecadillo dim. of pecado sin.]
A small fault, a venial sin; a trifling offence.
R. L. Stevenson What the boy does..as a manly peccadillo, the girl will shudder at..as vice. W. Golding There had been in him..a natural goodness..so that even his sins were peccadilloes.

melilite (medicine)


melilite
<chemical> A mineral occurring in small yellow crystals, found in the lavas (melilite basalt) of Vesuvius, and elsewhere.

Alternative forms: mellilite.

Origin: Gr. Meli honey; cf. F. Melilithe.

Source: Websters Dictionary