The Collaborative International Dictionary
Micaceous \Mi*ca"ceous\, a. [Cf. F. micac['e].] Pertaining to, or containing, mica; splitting into lamin[ae] or leaves like mica.
Wiktionary
a. 1 Of, pertaining to, consisting of, containing or resembling mica. 2 (context figuratively English) sparkling; brilliant
Usage examples of "micaceous".
South Country afterwards suggested that this may have been the remains of the micaceous schist, whose containing quartz was so extensively worked at Umm el-Harab.
Here and there mounds of the rosy micaceous schist, still unworked, looked as if it had been washed out by the showers of ages.
Before sleeping, I despatched to El-Wijh two boxes of micaceous schist and two bags of quartz, loads for a pair of camels.
Free gold in paillettes was noticed by the Expedition in the micaceous schists veining the quartz, and in the chalcedony which parts the granite from the gneiss.
As the tide rose each piece was trundled on to the sloping beach, to be rolled and compressed until coated with a mosaic of white shell chips, angularities of silica and micaceous spangles, the finished article being cast aside as the tide receded.
Above and below the vermilion band he laid a coat of blue, the base of which was a ground micaceous stone.
He found the cocaine inside the trunk, about an ounce, not much, but it had the rocky texture and micaceous glint of the good stuff.
This was the core of her major research project at the museum: tracing the diffusion of this rare micaceous pottery from its source in southern Utah as it was traded and retraded across the Southwest and beyond.
You know, of course, that in the micaceous schist of those parts the arbutus is a usual sight and that therefore Charaxes jasius, the Two-Tailed Pasha, is not so rare as he is elsewhere in Europe.
Just as the metallic leaves of the trees of Arvyanda, gleaming under the potent tropical sun, turned that region into a realm of brilliant gold, so too did the warm mellow stone of Sippulgar, glinting with bits of micaceous matter, yield a dazzling golden glow in the full brightness of the day.
These are few and simple and chiefly of the yellow micaceous ware, some of it blackened by use so that the original color cannot now be observed.
Fragment of hammerstone of gray micaceous sandstone, 5 inches long by 3 inches in diameter.