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Definition of Shattery
1. a. Easily breaking into pieces; not compact; loose of texture; brittle; as, shattery spar.
Definition of Shattery
1. Adjective. Easily breaking into pieces; not compact; loose of texture; brittle. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Shattery
1. brittle [adj] - See also: brittle
Lexicographical Neighbors of Shattery
Literary usage of Shattery
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Publications by Parish Register Society, London, London Parish Register Society, Florida State Historical Society, Deland, Deland Florida State Historical Society, Reparations Commission, North Carolina Historical Commission, Yorkshire Philosophical Society, Yorkshire (1897)
"... of shattery. Elizabeth Daughter to Richard Castell. Anne Daughter to William
Evans. Jone Bastard to Elizabeth Tonge. John sonne to John Grey. ..."
2. Journal of the Royal Geological Society of Ireland by Royal Geological Society of Ireland, Geological Society of Dublin (1889)
"White to creamy white; coarsely crystalline to compact; shattery, but seems to
be suited for ... Surface-pieces polished well, but were shattery and facial. ..."
3. The Journal of a Naturalist by John Leonard Knapp (1831)
"The parish consists in parts of a poor, shattery gray clay, beneath which we
find, in some places, a coarse lias; in others a spongy, rough, ..."
4. American Edition of the British Encyclopedia: Or, Dictionary of Arts and ...by William Nicholson by William Nicholson (1821)
"Of this class there are various species, as the hard, white stalactite; the white,
shattery stalactite ; and the yellow, ..."
5. A System of Mineralogy: In which Minerals are Arranged According to the by ROBERT. JAMESON (1820)
"A good slate must be sufficiently solid, and not brittle and shattery ; for such
... and if it emits a dull sound, it shows that it is soft and shattery. ..."
6. Transactions of the Cambridge Philosophical Society by Cambridge Philosophical Society (1822)
"A confused patch of shattery clay slate, intermixed with GS greywacke, is interposed
between the chlorite schist and mountain lime, to the East of ..."
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