guhr
See also: Guhr
English
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[edit]Noun
[edit]guhr (uncountable)
- A loose, earthy deposit from water, found in the cavities or clefts of rocks, mostly white, but sometimes red or yellow, from a mixture of clay or ochre.
- 1822, Parker Cleaveland, An Elementary Treatise on Mineralogy and Geology, etc.:
- Guhr. This is a loose, earthy deposite from water, and may be siliceous
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[edit]Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “guhr”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)