a. [f. STALACTITE + -IC.]

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  1.  Having the form or structure of a stalactite, resembling or pertaining to stalactites.

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1778.  Ann. Reg., Nat. Hist., 103/1. A kind of sparry stalactitick shell.

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1799.  Kirwan, Geol. Ess., 127. Stalactitic concretions of modern formation.

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1823.  Buckland, Reliq. Diluv., 49. A hollow stalactitic tube.

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1830.  Lyell, Princ. Geol., I. 384. It is of a hard stalactitic nature.

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1877.  Erichsen’s Surg. (ed. 7), II. 228. Stalactitic masses of bone.

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1886.  G. P. Merrill in Ann. Rep. Smithsonian Inst., II. (1889), 525. Stalactitic marble … is a marble which is formed by the deposit of lime carbonates from waters percolating into cavities or caves.

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  2.  Covered with, containing or consisting of stalactites.

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1845.  Hirst, Poems, 67. Stalactitic islands ever rise from out the waves of sound.

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a. 1849.  H. Coleridge, Ess. (1851), I. 253. Stalactitic caves.

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1849.  Dana, Geol., 272. The roof was very rough, though not stalactitic.

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1872.  W. S. Symonds, Rec. Rocks, ix. 351. A thin stalactitic floor, the results of the droppings of water.

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