STIGMITE. 



lot only to impart additional beauty and 

 irilliancy to the eye, and to make it appear 

 arger, but it was also considered to be benefi- 

 ial to the sight. This practice cf staining the 

 yelids was adopted among oriental nations 

 rom a very remote period, and is still fol- 

 owed by the women of Syria at the present 

 [ay. In 2 Kings ix. 30 we read, " And 

 vhen Jehu was corne to Jezreel, Jezebel 

 leard of it, and she painted her face " 

 literally, " put her eyes in painting"), " and 

 ired her head, and looked out at a window," 

 50 also Ezekiel (xxiii. 40), in reproving 

 he adulteries of Aholah and Aholibali, savs, 

 'For whom thou didst wash thyself, 

 )aintedst thine eyes, and deckedst thyself 

 vith ornaments." In this passage Kachalt 

 lineycha is rendered b}' the LXX. la-riQlZov 

 ■oh; o(pdxXf^ou; iroo, "Thoudidst paint thine eyes 

 vith stibium ;" and in the Vulgate, Circum- 

 Inisti stibio oculos tuos" " Thou didst paint 

 ound thine eyes with stibium." In care- 

 essly using the antimonial powder, some of 

 t frequently enters the eye itself; hence 

 ;he expression in Jer. iv. 30, " Though 

 ;hou rentest thy face (in Hebrew, "rentest 

 ;hine eyes") with painting, in vain shalt thou 

 make thyself fair." 



It was also employed as a hair-dye, and 

 ;o colour the eyebrows. Dioscorides states 

 ;hat the mode of preparing it for this 

 lurpose was to enclose it in a lump of 

 lough, and burn it in the coals till it was 

 •educed to a cinder. It was then extin- 

 guished with milk and wine, and again 

 olaced upon the coals and blown till ignition 

 ;ook place ; after which the heat was discon- 

 tinued, lest, as Pliny says, ^^ plumbum Jiat" it 

 should become lead, i.e. be reduced to the 

 metallic state. 



Stibnite is the " Lupus Metallorum"" of the 

 A-lchemysts. 



Stigmite. See St. Stephen's-stone. 



Stilbit, Haidinger; or Stilbite, Beudant, 

 Haiiy, Phillips, Nicol. Primary form a right 

 rhombic prism. Generally occurs in prisms 

 3f which the edges are replaced, and with 

 four-sided summits resting on the lateral 

 sdges ; often in sheaf-like aggregations and in 

 diverging groups ; also massive, in radiating 

 and broad columnar fonns. Colour white : 



Fig. 414. 



fC^ K^ 



<x^ 



Fig. 415. 



sometimes yellow, grey, red or broA\'Ti. Lus- 

 tre vitreous. Translucent to transparent at 



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the edges. Streak white. Brittle. Fracture 

 uneven. H.3-5 to 4. S.G. 2 to 2-2. 



Comp. Anhydrous Lime-01igoclase_, or 



CaSi + AlSi3 + 6H = silica 58-2, alumina 16'1, 



lime 8-8, water 16-9-100. 



Anahjsis, from Iceland, by Hisinger : 



Silica 58-00 



Alumina . . . .16-10 



Lime 920 



Water 16-40 



99-70 



BB swells up strongly and fuses with 

 difficulty to a blistered glass. 



Slowly but completely decomposed by 

 concentrated muriatic acid, with separation 

 of silica in the form of a viscid powder. 



Localities. — English. Cornwall: between. 

 Botallack and Huel Cock.—- Scotch. Garbh 

 Corre Du, Isle oT Arran, j^g. 414, in. granite. 

 LongCraig, Dumbarton Muir,^?^'. 414. Skye : 

 at Storr,Talisker,7i5r. 415 ; Quiraing, Snizort. 

 Stirlingshire ;Campsie and Fintry, in fine red 

 crystals, fig. 415, in porphyritic amygdaloid. 

 At Kilpatrick, Kilmalcolm, Kincardine, in. 

 sheaf-like aggregations. Call Hill, near Aber- 

 deen, plumose. — Irish. Giant's Causeway, ia 

 geodes. Mourne Mountains, in sheaf-like ag- 

 gregations, in granite. Ballintoy. Port Push. 

 Bruce's Castle, Eathlin Island, in greenstone. 

 Bengore Head. — Foreign. Iceland. Faroe 

 Islands, Konigsbergand Arendal,in Norway. 

 Gustafsberg, near Fahlun, in Sweden. Fa'^sa 

 Valley, in the Tyrol. Andreasberg, in the 

 Harz. Dauphiny. Vindhya Mountains, in 

 Hindostan. Partridge Islands, Nova Scotia, 

 white and flesh-red. United States. 



Name. From o-TiXSyj, lustre, in allusion to 

 the pearly lustre of some of the faces of the 

 crystals. 



Brit. Mus., Case 28. 



31. P. G. Horseshoe- Case, No. 1166. 



Stilbite occurs chiefly in cavities in amyg- 

 daloidal rocks ; also in some metalliferous 

 veins, and in granite, gneiss, and slate. 



It should be remarked that German mi- 

 neralogists call our Stilbite Desmine, and our 

 Heulandite Stilbite. 



Stilbite Anamorphique, Haiiy. See 

 Heulandite. 



Stillolite. See Opal. 



Stilpnomefan, Glocker, Nicol; or Stilp- 

 nomelane, Dana. Occurs massive - and 

 disseminated, with a granular or radiating 

 and foliated structure. Colour blackish-green 

 to greenish -black. Opaque. Lustre vitreou.5, 

 inclining to pearly on the planes of cleavage. 

 Streak greenish. Rather brittle. H. 3 to 4. 

 S.G. 3 to 3-4. 



