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ve·su·vi·an

 (vĭ-so͞o′vē-ən)
n.
A slow-burning match formerly used for lighting cigars; a fusee.
adj.
Marked by sudden or violent outbursts: a vesuvian temper.

[After MountVesuvius.]
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vesuvian

(vɪˈsuːvɪən)
n
1. (esp formerly) a match for lighting cigars; fusee
2. (Minerals) another name for vesuvianite
[C18 (the mineral), C19 (the match): both named after Vesuvius]
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vesuvian

an early type of match that was difficult to extinguish.
See also: Fire
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Noun1.vesuvian - a green or yellow or brown mineral consisting of a hydrated silicate; it occurs as crystals in limestone and is used a gemstone
mineral - solid homogeneous inorganic substances occurring in nature having a definite chemical composition
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References in classic literature ?
In them there were no considerations of Mediterranean cruises, of soporific Southern skies drifting in the Vesuvian Bay.
The mood everywhere is Vesuvian - everyone is ready to fire off great gobs of hot molten words, like when I jokingly accused our taxi driver of being a Juventus fan (oh boy) - but the lava soon cools.
The buses will use existing stops on Window Lane and Vesuvian Drive and will stop in Garston village and continue on to Liverpool South Parkway station.
These remnants were characterized as the last garum productions before the Vesuvian eruption (Bernal et al., 2013; Carannante, 2010; Garcia et al., 2014; Curtis, 1979) and were found in the solid form, corresponding to allec.
If the character of Elena cannot be taken for a full-fledged postfeminist, in fact quite the opposite, the structure and the weaving of the themes in this Vesuvian antipastoral (Iovino 112) convince us that the time of what Angela McRobbie calls "spectral" feminism has now long gone (61).
Six lads, two toilets, me feeling sick as a dog and a vesuvian pile of used loo roll - oh what fun we had.
Comegna V, Basile A (1994) Temporal stability of spatial patterns of soil water storage in a cultivated Vesuvian soil.
The entire scene is amplified to almost Dantesque proportions in the condensing image that likens the act of shooting to the eruption of an anthropomorphized volcano: "It is as a Vesuvian face / Had let its pleasure through." The image of the 'Vesuvian face' does not connect with the sun, as Burns suggests: "The peculiar image of the sun as a 'Vesuvian face'" (Burns 2002, 103), but with shooting and smoking.
branch in Daikanyama--and baking it in an oak wood fire burning at about 485 degrees Celsius in an oven handcrafted in Naples using Vesuvian volcanic rock.
(23) In any case, the overall impression of the Vesuvian context is of a small group of women and children carrying a hoard of objects representing portable wealth that could be relatively easily made liquid.