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remediless (iou) and gneiss (medicine)


remediless (iou)



remediless adjective. L15.
[from REMEDY noun + -LESS.]
Unable to be relieved, having no prospect of aid or rescue. Now rare or obsolete. L15.
Of trouble, disease, etc.: unable to be remedied, having no cure. E16.
remedilessly adverb (now rare) M16.
remedilessness noun (now rare) E17.

gneiss (medicine)


gneiss
<geology> A crystalline rock, consisting, like granite, of quartz, feldspar, and mica, but having these materials, especially the mica, arranged in planes, so that it breaks rather easily into coarse slabs or flags.

Hornblende sometimes takes the place of the mica, and it is then called hornblendic or syenitic gneiss. Similar varieties of related rocks are also called gneiss.

Origin: G.

Source: Websters Dictionary