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English Dictionary: Schiller by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
Schiller
n
  1. German romantic writer (1759-1805) [syn: Schiller, Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller]
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Schiller \Schil"ler\, n. [G., play of colors.] (Min.)
      The peculiar bronzelike luster observed in certain minerals,
      as hypersthene, schiller spar, etc. It is due to the presence
      of minute inclusions in parallel position, and is sometimes
      of secondary origin.
  
      {Schiller spar} (Min.), an altered variety of enstatite,
            exhibiting, in certain positions, a bronzelike luster.
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