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Definition of Slatey
1. Adjective. Of the color of slate or granite. "The slaty sky of dawn"
Similar to: Achromatic, Neutral
Definition of Slatey
1. slaty [adj SLATIER, SLATIEST] - See also: slaty
Lexicographical Neighbors of Slatey
Literary usage of Slatey
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Transactions. by New Hampshire Medical Society, American Ethnological Society (1858)
"Black slatey stone, with coal 0 3 37. Blue metal 1 o 88. ... Black slatey stone,
mixed with coal 3 o 47. Blue metal, dark and hard 0 3 49. ..."
2. The Coal-fields of Scotland by Robert W. Dron (1902)
"... Coal and the slatey-band Ironstone contains a valuable series of coal-seams.
Expectations were entertained that some of those lower coals might prove ..."
3. The New Zealand Journal of Science (1885)
"(The other bird presented no difference from the ordinary plumage) Forehead,
crown, hind-head, white interspersed with slatey-black ; nape white, ..."
4. Bulletin by Geological Survey of Western Australia (1904)
"This, however, gives place to slatey and schistose rocks at a point about 15
chains from the river bank. Cook's Hill is the crowning point of a low ridge of ..."
5. Bulletin by Geological Survey of Western Australia (1903)
"This, however, gives place to slatey and schistose rocks at a point about 15
chains from the river bank. Cook-s Hill is the crowning point of a low ridge of ..."
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