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Ranite
Webster's Dictionary
(n.) A crystalline, granular rock, consisting of quartz, feldspar, and mica, and usually of a whitish, grayish, or flesh-red color. It differs from gneiss in not having the mica in planes, and therefore in being destitute of a schistose structure.
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Webster, Noah. Entry for 'Ranite'. Noah Webster's American Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/web/r/ranite.html. 1828.