Definition of "vitri" []

• In petrography, in the quantitative system of classification of igneous rocks (see rock), a prefix used to indicate that a rock is microscopically glassy. Compare vitro-.

The Century Dictionary (Public Domain)

• "We were obliged to remain under the disappointment that nothing more was being offered us than barrels, for the word was almost entirely drowned by the appeal: “Vitri, vitri-er, carreaux cassés, voilà le vitrier, vitri-er,”"
• "MS. of Glover, 'Lozenga est pars vitri in vitrea fenestra.'"
• "D.A. dici idud potctt cirea aUquaphsenomenaJn quibus feiHcet nulla obfervatur corporum cxtraneorun« attraQio C.A. tn quibus obfervatur pofitiva repulfiei N, A. & Cm. Quod mercurius in tubo vitreo non aN tollatur, caufa ell» quia roajor kabctur attradio in par* tibus mercurii ad fe inviccm, quan qa» efk vitri act mercurtum."