Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun An opaque or semitranslucent brown glass flecked with small metallic particles, often of copper or chromic oxide.
- noun Any of several varieties of quartz or feldspar flecked with particles of mica, hematite, or other materials.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A kind of glass, containing gold-colored spangles. It was produced in the first place by the accidental (
par aventure ) dropping of some brass filings into a pot of melted glass. - noun (Min.) A variety of translucent quartz, spangled throughout with scales of yellow mica.
- noun a variety of oligoclase with internal firelike reflections due to the presence of minute crystals, probably of hematite; sunstone.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A kind of
glass , containing gold-coloredspangles . It was produced in the first place by the accidental (par aventure) dropping of some brass filings into a pot of melted glass. - noun mineralogy A variety of
translucent quartz , spangled throughout with scales of yellowmica .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a translucent quartz spangled with bits of mica or other minerals
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
[French, from aventure, accident (so called because of its accidental discovery or the randomness of inclusions in it); see adventure.]
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