Usually means: Volcanic glass, sharp, black mineral.
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We found 37 dictionaries that define the word obsidian:

General (23 matching dictionaries)
  1. obsidian: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. obsidian: Merriam-Webster
  3. obsidian: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. obsidian: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. obsidian: Collins English Dictionary
  6. obsidian: Vocabulary.com
  7. Obsidian, obsidian: Wordnik
  8. obsidian: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. obsidian: Wiktionary
  10. obsidian: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. obsidian: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. obsidian: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. obsidian: Dictionary.com
  14. obsidian: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. Obsidian (album), Obsidian (comics), Obsidian (disambiguation), Obsidian: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Obsidian: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. obsidian: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. obsidian: Rhymezone
  19. Obsidian: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. obsidian: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. obsidian: FreeDictionary.org
  22. obsidian: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. obsidian: TheFreeDictionary.com

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Beading Glossary (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. obsidian: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Brilliant Dream Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. obsidian: A Word A Day
  3. obsidian: Wordcraft Dictionary

Science (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. Archaeology Wordsmith (No longer online)
  2. Obsidian: LITHICS-NET's Glossary of Lithics Terminology
  3. OBSIDIAN: The Mineral Gallery
  4. obsidian: Dictionary of Geology
  5. Anthropology dictionary (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Obsidian: Urban Dictionary

Tech (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. National Glass Association Glossary (No longer online)
  2. Illustrated Glass Dictionary (No longer online)

(Note: See obsidians as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (obsidian)

noun:  (mineralogy) A type of naturally occurring black glass produced by volcanoes.
noun:  A slightly bluish black, the color of obsidian glass.
adjective:  (poetic) Black.

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