Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A variety of deep-green chalcedony flecked with red jasper. Also called heliotrope.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A variety of hematite, having a finely fibrous structure and a reniform surface. The color varies from dark steel-gray to blood-red. It was extensively employed in ancient times, many of the Babylonian and Egyptian intaglios being in this material; now it is much less used, except for signet-rings, and as a polish for other stones and metals.
- n. A variety of quartz having a greenish base, with small spots of red jasper, looking like drops of blood, scattered through it. This kind of bloodstone is also called heliotrope.
Wiktionary
- n. A green chalcedony that has been sprinkled with red spots (which resemble blood, hence the name).
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. A green siliceous stone sprinkled with red jasper, as if with blood; hence the name; -- called also
heliotrope . - n. Hematite, an ore of iron yielding a blood red powder or “streak.”
WordNet 3.0
- n. green chalcedony with red spots that resemble blood
Examples
“It is called a bloodstone," T’Shael said on yet another day.”
“In the booty captured in a savage raid, Kane discovers a ring, a bloodstone, which is key to the power that lies buried, inactive but not dea, within the forest.”
Science Fiction, Fantasy, Horror: Bloodstone - Karl Edward Wagner
“There was an unfacetted crimson gem (he vaguely remembered having heard a similar gem called a bloodstone) in the grip, just behind one of the smooth, tapering arms of the guard.”
“Courtesy of S.J. Phillips Ltd Rococo gold-mounted bloodstone teapot, circa 1820, probably Germany.”
“But I was tired and couldn't be sure I actually recalled stampeding giraffes, falling heliotropes, bloodstone storms, an old child with no eyes, wrapped in waves; I couldn't; and you had dropped like a minnow of a brittle star into my flat trap of a lap, my darling sour ancient fish.”
“The false cenotaph in the public upper chamber was in white marble, the color of freshly drawn milk, inlaid profusely with stylized flowers in tiers—a lapis lazuli blue, a jasper red, a bloodstone black, an agate and sard brown, a carnelian orange, a chlorite and jade green, and a yellow limestone.”
“In the end she had opted for muted colors—sard for brown, yellow limestone the brightest of her choices, a dull green jasper, and the sharp black-olive of bloodstone.”
“I added the bloodstone to the items I was packing, then retrieved the scrying crystal and packed it, too, shoebox and all.”
“I sank on the bed and drew covers over me, threw them down again, rose up and got the bloodstone.”
“Calling energy out of it, propelling it through me, wrapping it with my need for courage, I pushed it into my right palm and charged the bloodstone.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘bloodstone’.
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Minerals and Mineralogy
List of minerals, elements, group names and geochemistry terms encountered in the science of mineralogy. I've chosen to avoid capital letters in most examples, though a great many mineral names hon...
galkhaite, xanthoconite, pyrostilpnite, polybasite, pyrargyrite, djurleite, digenite, covellite, chalcocite, cerargirite, acanthite, aeschynite and 2608 more...
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Interesting words
A list of words that are odd or words that I have looked up.
concupiscence, brize, scree, scoria, forestaff, spanaemia, valetudinarianism, distasture, pyrethrum, laudanum, gentian, bicameral and 11250 more...
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Color Words for Shoes
Vendors can get oddly creative.
amaranth, brindle, iguana, slate black, madder brown, bison, pinecone, seal brown, forest night, burnt orange, monument, beet red and 399 more...
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Amalgamations
Words that have been smashed together.
keystone, touchstone, footprint, thunderhead, seesaw, textbook, leftovers, watchword, afterbirth, fieldwork, outcast, statesman and 148 more...
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Clearinghouse
For stuff to simply reside.
calcar, pinion, espadrille, antipodes, peregrine, cormorant, tanager, vireo, farrago, undervest, passerine, oscine and 881 more...
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Words Covered in Faery Dust (B)
words that evoke magic, mystery, mayhem, magnificence or anything else that glimmers in the grass
balcony, bailey, baguette, bairn, balalaika, baldric, balefire, baby's breath, ballet, balm of gilead, balsam, baluster and 188 more...
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wordrainbow
A big list of color names for use on wordrainbow.com
emerald, cherry, coffee, cream, almond, gold, kiwi, green, grass green, aquamarine, beet red, sepia and 714 more...
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Colors
cerise, carnelian, florid, claret, watchet, rosaceous, coquelicot, vermilion, celadon, nacreous, lapis, viridescent and 132 more...
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a box of paints.
words with color.
cyan, cerulean, azure, emerald, sapphire, beryl, lapis lazuli, aquamarine, topaz, garnet, ruby, amber and 22 more...
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Theodora's
aurulent, heliotrope, wheaten, viridian, umber, titian, saffron, sable, smaragdine, ponceau, prasinous, coquelicot and 23 more...
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Another Bloody List
bloodwort, bloodroot, bloodwood, bloodstone, blood pudding, blood sausage, blood-drop, bloodworm, bloodhound, bloodnut, blood-red, blood-mare and 43 more...
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the dressing room - jewelry box
crown, gilt, sceptre, circlet, diadem, tiara, alabaster, gold, cat's eye, citrine, zircon, hematite and 47 more...
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lapidary
agate, jasper, garnet, ruby, sapphire, onyx, topaz, turquoise, carnelian, jade, diamond, amethyst and 27 more...
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Gems & Minerals
azurite, feldspar, moonstone, fire opal, fool's gold, amethyst, gagate, tiger's eye, bloodstone, imperial jade, jasperine, vulcanite and 29 more...
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Red
Words that refer to color red, or various shades of red
alizarin, mulberry, murrey, sanguine, scarlet, crimson, vermilion, maroon, red, burgundy, amaranth, carmine and 35 more...
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