ZOISITE, noun [from Van Zois, its discoverer.] A mineral regarded as a variety of epidote. It occurs in deeply striated rhomboidal prisms, much compressed and rounded; its colors gray, yellowish or bluish gray, brown, grayish yellow, or reddish white. This is called also a subspecies of prismatoidal augite.
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Webster's Dictionary 1828
American Dictionary of the English Language, Noah Webster, 1828.