chalcedony

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Agate and chalcedony were also to be found among the loose stones, and often the three occurred together.

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  1. noun A translucent to transparent milky or grayish quartz with distinctive microscopic crystals arranged in slender fibers in parallel bands.

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  • With what wonder and incredulity we roamed about witnessing the strange spectacle!—the prostrate monarchs with hearts of jasper and chalcedony, now silent and rigid in this desolate region where they basked in the sunlight and swayed in the winds millions of years ago. —  Our Friend John Burroughs
  • It might have been found in an area where chalcedony, flint and jasper are common. —  033 - Murder Melody
  • They were chalcedony, almost classical William IV in style. —  process 10
  • The iron was thus not meteoric The flint consists of a beautiful chalcedony or agate, which has been formed in cavities in the volcanic rocks which occur so abundantly in north-eastern Asia, and which probably are also found here and there as pebbles in the beds of the tundra rivers. —  The Voyage of the Vega round Asia and Europe, Volume I and Volume II
  • The drawing-rooms of the nobility and the upper middle classes were crammed with curios; every lady must needs cover the cushions of her sofas and chairs with some piece of church vestment, and put her roses into an Umbrian ointment pot, or a chalcedony jar. —  The Child of Pleasure
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  1. Late Latin chalcēdonius, from Greek khalkēdōn, a mystical stone (Revelation 21:19), perhaps from Khalkēdōn, Chalcedon.

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  1. Altered, with immediate ref. to the Latin, from Middle English calcidoine, cassidoine, cassedony (later English cassidony), from Old French calcedoine, French calcédoine = Spanish Italian calcedonia = Portuguese chalcedonia, from Latin chalcedonius (properly adjective ‘of Chalcedon’), chalcedony, from Greek χαλκηδων, a precious stone found at Chalcedon, Χαλκηδών, an ancient Greek town in Asia Minor nearly opposite to Byzantium or Constantinople.
 

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/kælˈsɛdəni/
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