Word Meanings - SEMIPRECIOUS - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Somewhat precious; as, semiprecious stones or metals.

SOMEWHAT
1. More or less; a certain quantity or degree; a part, more or less; something. These salts have somewhat of a nitrous taste. Grew. Somewhat of his good sense will suffer, in this transfusion, and much of the beauty of his thoughts will be lost.
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.
STONESMICKLE
The stonechat; -- called also stonesmitch.
SEMIPRECIOUS
Somewhat precious; as, semiprecious stones or metals.
PROTOMETALS
A finer form of metals, indicated by enhanced lines in their spark spectra , obtained at the highest available laboratory temperatures ; as protocalcium, protochromium, protocopper, protonickel, protosilicon, protostrontium, prototitanium,