Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A clear or translucent, deep orange-red to brownish-red variety of chalcedony. Also called sardius.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A variety of carnelian which shows on its surface a rich reddish brown, but when held to the light appears of a deep blood-red. Also called sardoin.
Wiktionary
- n. A variety of carnelian, of a rich reddish yellow or brownish red color.
- n. Any of various brownish red earth pigments formerly used in cosmetics and painting; has more yellow, hardly any blue (see puce), is lighter than russet and darker than traditional carnelian.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. A variety of carnelian, of a rich reddish yellow or brownish red color. See the Note under
Chalcedony .
WordNet 3.0
- n. a deep orange-red variety of chalcedony
Etymologies
- Middle English sarde, from Old French, from Latin sarda, perhaps from Sardīs, Sardis.
Examples
“The sard is the carnelian, while the sardonyx is a species of onyx.”
“The sard, which is probably the stone denoted by odem, is a superior variety of agate, sometimes called camelian, and has long been a favorite stone for the engraver's art.”
“To calm me down on hot days, or when I was particularly temperamental, cucumber and yogurt dip combined with white basmati rice was a good sard remedy.”
“Foods, like people, are believed to have natures, hot or cold, garm or sard.”
“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.”
“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.”
“Inside, she had created a series of corridors, one after the other, leading to the heart of the building—a white-marble-paved room set with exquisite pietra dura inlay of agates, sard, jade, and cornelian, gleaming marble walls, and a raised cenotaph in the center.”
“Instead of North-South, East-West and Front-Back (or some equivalent) the coordinate system of the Splinter is: shomal-junub, garm-sard, and rarb-sharq.”
“He includes two diagrams, but those only show the shomal-junub and garm-sard plane -- I really could have used another one showing rarb-sharq for clarity.”
“In addition, we found four handle-less cups, sherds of various types, cooking pots, and pithoi, as well as beads made of sard and agate.”
Picture 140 « Field Notes 2008 « Interactive Dig Crete – Zominthos Project
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘sard’.
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Logolepsy
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deep sleep
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bilby "The word fuck is first found in a dictionary in 1598, when it was one of five synonyms given to translate the Italian word fottere (the others were jape, sard, swive, and occupy)."
- Jesse Sheidlower, Can a Woman "Prong" a Man?, slate.com, 1 Oct 2009. Oct 6, 2009