Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A translucent to transparent milky or grayish quartz with distinctive microscopic crystals arranged in slender fibers in parallel bands.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A cryptocrystalline variety of quartz, resembling in color milk diluted with water, and more or less clouded or opaque with veins, circles, or spots. It is used in jewelry. There are several varieties, as common chalcedony, chrysoprase, sard, and sardonyx. Also called
white agate . Also spelledcalcedony . See cut underbotryoid .
Wiktionary
- n. A form of fine-grained quartz that is nearly transparent or has a milky translucence; it fractures conchoidally.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. A cryptocrystalline, translucent variety of quartz, having usually a whitish color, and a luster nearly like wax.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a milky or greyish translucent to transparent quartz
Etymologies
- Late Latin chalcēdonius, from Greek khalkēdōn, a mystical stone (Revelation 21:19), perhaps from Khalkēdōn, Chalcedon.
Examples
“Top lot will be the cover of a chalcedony cup dating from the 16th century, featuring Venus and Cupid cradled together within a scallop shell and framed by a silver gilt mount in the form of Jupiter as a swan.”
“From top: Siegelson antique archaeological revival gold and chalcedony brooch by Castellani, ca. 1880, price upon request, Siegelson, 212-832-2666; Bottega Veneta Milk silver bracelet $790 left and Magma silver bracelet $1,290 Bottegaveneta.com ; Stephen Russell Victorian 18k yellow gold agate pearl ruby and hard stone brooch, ca.”
“Also: blue amber, bowenite, blue calcite, blue chalcedony, pink chalcedony, geode, rainbow obsidian, clear quartz scrying ball in which the past and the future can be read, phantom quartz.”
“Labradorite, Charoite, botryoidal chalcedony, and rocs, adn rocs, adn uh, smammie, uze gittin BORIN agin… sari….. and dey maeks handii howz-wholed wepenz.. sew dere, thwak.”
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“May 24, 2008 at 4:44 pm ai jus maded a braselet wit the chalcedony…………. ai lurves it.”
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“Wen ai bot teh chalcedony wun bead man said, oh Ellensburg Blue…….. same stone ai gess. smammie says:”
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“The hero is shown speaking, dressed in a felt cap, cloak, and scabbard, on this chalcedony ring stone from Crete, 400–350 B.C.”
“The cup itself is of a kind of agate, like chalcedony or sardonyx.”
“The first foundation was jasper; the second, sapphire; the third, a chalcedony; the fourth, an emerald;”
“Orange or reddish form of chalcedony, related to sard, bloodstone, and moss agate.”
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