Definitions of lava

1. The melted rock ejected by a volcano from its top or fissured sides. It flows out in streams sometimes miles in length. It also issues from fissures in the earth's surface, and forms beds covering many square miles, as in the Northwestern United States.

2. Melted rock such as that which is thrown from a volcano.

3. The melted matter discharged from a burning mountain, and that flows down its sides.

4. Melted rock flowing from a volcano.

5. Melted rock, as from a volcanic crater.

6. Rock matter, which issues in a molten state from the vent of a volcano. Lava- millstones, a hard basaltic stone, obtained from quarries net Andernach, on the Rhine.

7. The melted rock- matter which flows from a volcano.