AL'ALITE, noun A crystallized mineral; diopside; a semi-transparent pyroxene. A variety with twelve sided prisms, was found by Bonvoisin, near the village of Ala in Piedmont, and by him called alalite
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Webster's Dictionary 1828
American Dictionary of the English Language, Noah Webster, 1828.