Word Meanings - CALCEDON - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A foul vein, like chalcedony, in some precious stones.

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• PRECIOUSNESS
  The quality or state of being precious; costliness; dearness.
• PRECIOUS
  1. Of great price; costly; as, a precious stone. "The precious bane." Milton. 2. Of great value or worth; very valuable; highly esteemed; dear; beloved; as, precious recollections. She is more precious than rules. Prov. iii. 15. Many things which
• PRECIOUSLY
  In a precious manner; expensively; extremely; dearly. Also used ironically.
• CHALCEDONY
  A cryptocrystalline, translucent variety of quartz, having Note: When chalcedony is variegated with with spots or figures, or arranged in differently colored layers, it is called agate; and if by reason of the thickness, color, and arrangement of
• STONESMICKLE
  The stonechat; -- called also stonesmitch.
• SEMIPRECIOUS
  Somewhat precious; as, semiprecious stones or metals.