[An alteration of AEROLITH, assimilating the ending to those of minerals in -ITE.] A stone or portion of matter which has fallen to the earth from, or rather through, the atmosphere; a meteoric stone, or meteorite. In recent usage, the name aerolite has been confined to those meteorites which consist of stone or other substance than meteoric iron: see AEROSIDERITE.
1815. Encycl. Brit., Supp. I. 65. Aerolite, a term recently but perhaps improperly applied to those singular substances called meteoric stones.
1870. Tyndall, Heat, i. § 12. 11. The velocity of the aērolites varies from 18 to 36 miles a second.
1881. Brooks, Candle of the Lord, 133. God does not fling His hero like an aërolite out of the sky. He bids him grow like an oak out of the earth.
