Granite

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

·noun A crystalline, granular rock, consisting of quartz, feldspar, and mica, and usually of a whitish, grayish, or flesh-red color. It differs from gneiss in not having the mica in planes, and therefore in being destitute of a schistose structure.

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Granite State
·- New Hampshire; — a nickname alluding to its mountains, which are chiefly of granite. II. Granit...

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
granite state
The State of New Hampshire, so called from the abundance of this material found in it. ...

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