HEM'ITROPE, adjective [Gr. half, and to turn.] Half-turned; a hemitrope crystal is one in which one segment is turned through half the circumference of a circle. The word is used also as a noun.
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Webster's Dictionary 1828
American Dictionary of the English Language, Noah Webster, 1828.