smaragd

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  1. A precious or semi-precious stone of green color. Alle the thinges … that Indus giveth, … that medeleth the grene stones (smaragde) with the white (margarits). Chaucer, Boëthius, iii. meter 10. Aristotle doth affirme, and so doth Albertus Magnus, that a Smaragd worne about the necke is good against the Falling-sicknes. Babees Book (E. E. T. S.), p. 257.

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  • I love Austrian rieslings - just last weekend we celebrated my son Jack's 18th birthday with a bottle of 2000 Wachau Steinriegl smaragd riesling from —  The Pour
  • I love Austrian rieslings - just last weekend we celebrated my son Jack's 18th birthday with a bottle of 2000 Wachau Steinriegl smaragd riesling from Mr. Know-It-All —  The Pour
  • Under this dome was a canopy of brocede, reposing upon pillars of red gold and wrought with figures of birds whose feet were of smaragd, and beneath each bird was a network of fresh- hued pearls. —  Arabian nights. English
  • "With the smaragd wand doth my form compare; * 'Mid the finest flowers my worth's rarest rare: —  Arabian nights. English
  • Under this dome was a canopy of brocede, reposing upon pillars of red gold and wrought with figures of birds whose feet were of smaragd, and beneath each bird was a network of fresh - hued pearls. —  Arabian nights. English
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  1. from Middle English smaragde, from Old French smaragde = D. Old High German Middle High German G. Danish Swedish smaragd, from Latin smaragdus, from Greek σμάραγδος, a precious stone of light-green color: see emerald.
 

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