augen

/ ou′gən /

A large mineral grain or grain cluster having the shape of an eye in cross-section and occurring in foliated metamorphic rocks such as schist and gneiss. Augens form when large mineral crystals are sheared and deformed during the process of metamorphism.

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Example Sentences

Later on a fold (Augen-falte) appears in this mass of tissue, in consequence of which it becomes divided into two parts.

Here are some pretty ones in various languages: "Nun guten ruh, die augen zu" (Now go to sleep, and shut your eyes).

Even in his youth, with cruel irony, he had had sung by a blind quartet the song, “Du hast die schnsten Augen.”

But as he was come before the towne of Augen in the moneth The earle of Flanders wounded.

Die Augen sind weiter als der Bauch—The eyes are larger than the belly.

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