G'AHNITE, noun [from Gahn, the discoverer.] A mineral, called also automalite and octahedral corundum. It is always crystallized in regular octahedrons, or in tetrahedrons with truncated angles.
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Webster's Dictionary 1828
American Dictionary of the English Language, Noah Webster, 1828.