The Century dictionary and cyclopedia; a work of universal reference in all departments of knowledge, with a new atlas of the world .. . onto its having been mistaken for quartz; < Gr.(^hai {(pevaK-), an impostor, + -(7^-2.] A ravemineral occurring in transparent rhombohedralcrystals, colorless to wine-yellow, and having avitreous luster, it is a silicate of beryllium (glucinum).It is found in the Vrals, also in Switzerland, and on MountAntoro in Colorado. As a precious stone, the colorlesst lansparent variety is extremely brilliant by artificial light. phenakismt (fena-kizm), j(. [< Gr.
The Century dictionary and cyclopedia; a work of universal reference in all departments of knowledge, with a new atlas of the world .. . onto its having been mistaken for quartz; < Gr.(^hai {(pevaK-), an impostor, + -(7^-2.] A ravemineral occurring in transparent rhombohedralcrystals, colorless to wine-yellow, and having avitreous luster, it is a silicate of beryllium (glucinum).It is found in the Vrals, also in Switzerland, and on MountAntoro in Colorado. As a precious stone, the colorlesst lansparent variety is extremely brilliant by artificial light. phenakismt (fena-kizm), j(. [< Gr. <pn<aKiGfi6c,cheating, (piackery, < (jtevaKiC^iVy cheat, < (pha^((pevaK-)y a cheat, quack, impostor.] The actof conveying false ideas or impressions; phenakistoscope (fen-a-kisto-skop),». [< Gr. ipevaKiGTiKd^, deceitful (< (pevaKiCeiv, cheat, de-ceive, trick, < (piva^, a cheat: see 2)hetiakisiH),+GKo-elVy see.] An optical instrument which pro-duces the representation of actual motion, asin leaping, walking, flying, etc. it consists of adisk on which a figure is repeated in successive disk a has drawn upon it the figures arranged in successivepositions, n is rotated by spinning with the fingers applied to a smallhoss or nut in the rear mot snow n in the cutj. 6, date tne slits throughwhich the reflected images are viewed. When the disk is caused to revolve and is observed througha slit as reflected in a mirror, a single figure appears tothe eye, owing to the principle of the persistence of im-pressions on the retina, to assunie in turn the variouspositions of the sepiu^te figures, its motion appealing tobe continuous. phenetol (fenet-ol), H. l<phe}i(oI) + ~ct- + -o/.]Ethyl phenyl ether, (jH5, a volatilearomatic-smelling liquid—Phenetol red. Sameas coccimn. phengite (fenjit), v. [See fcngite.] Avarietyof museovite, or common potash mica. Seeiiinscorite. phenic (fenik),^. [, phenic orcarbolic aci<l
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