PHYS'ALITE, noun [Gr. to swell or inflate, and a stone.] A mineral of a greenish white color, a subspecies of prismatic topaz; called also pyrophysalite, as it intumesces in heat.
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Webster's Dictionary 1828
American Dictionary of the English Language, Noah Webster, 1828.