Crossword clues for beryl
beryl
- Transparent gem
- Green mineral
- Blue-green stone
- Emerald, essentially
- Transparent gemstone
- Hard mineral
- Green gem mineral
- Emerald is a variety of it
- Aquamarine or emerald
- Novelist Bainbridge
- New Hampshire state mineral
- Usually green mineral
- Green-gem mineral
- Good name for a mineralogist
- Girl's name — gemstone
- Emerald mineral
- Emerald e.g
- A gem of a girl's name
- Shade of green
- Emerald or aquamarine, e.g
- Gem mineral
- Green gem source
- Emerald, e.g.
- Green gemstone
- Color akin to turquoise
- A gemstone
- Silicate gemstone
- One of October's birthstones
- Semiprecious stone
- Gemstone (for Ms Bainbridge?)
- Mineral gemstone
- Shade of blue
- October stone
- Emerald, for one
- Emerald, e.g
- Lustrous mineral
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Beryl \Ber"yl\ (b[e^]r"[i^]l), n. [F. b['e]ryl, OF. beril, L. beryllus, Gr. bh`ryllos, prob. fr. Skr. vai[dsdot][=u]ry
Cf. Brilliant.] (Min.) A mineral of great hardness, and, when transparent, of much beauty. It occurs in hexagonal prisms, commonly of a green or bluish green color, but also yellow, pink, and white. It is a silicate of aluminum and beryllium. The aquamarine is a transparent, sea-green variety used as a gem. The emerald is another variety highly prized in jewelry, and distinguished by its deep color, which is probably due to the presence of a little oxide of chromium.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
hard, lustrous mineral, c.1300, from Old French beryl (12c., Modern French béryl), from Latin beryllus, from Greek beryllos, perhaps from Prakrit veruliya, from Sanskrit vaidurya-, of Dravidian origin, perhaps from the city of Velur (modern Belur) in southern India.\n
\nMedieval Latin berillus also was applied to any precious stone of a pale green color, to fine crystal, and to eyeglasses (the first spectacle lenses may have been made of beryl), hence German Brille "spectacles," from Middle High German berille "beryl," and French besicles (plural) "spectacles," altered 14c. from Old French bericle.
Wiktionary
a. Of a dull blueish green colour. n. (context uncountable mineral English) A mineral of pegmatite deposits, often used as a gemstone.
WordNet
n. the chief source of beryllium; colored transparent varieties are valued as gems
Wikipedia
In geology, beryl is a mineral composed of beryllium aluminium cyclosilicate with the chemical formula BeAl(Si O). The hexagonal crystals of beryl may be very small or range to several meters in size. Terminated crystals are relatively rare. Pure beryl is colorless, but it is frequently tinted by impurities; possible colors are green, blue, yellow, red, and white.
Beryl is a mineral.
Beryl or Berel may also refer to:
- Beryl, a given name and persons with the name
- Berel, a given name and persons with the name
- Beryl, Utah, United States
- Beryl, West Virginia, United States
- +Beryll, an accessories brand in Los Angeles
- "Beryl", a song by Mark Knopfler from the Tracker album
- Beryl, 2014 stage play by Maxine Peake about the life of cyclist Beryl Burton
- Compiz, window manager computer software
- HMAS Beryl II, WWII Australian minesweeper
- Kbs wz. 1996 Beryl, a Polish variant of the AK rifle design
- Metropolitan-Vickers Beryl, a jet engine
- Tropical storm Beryl, name for several tropical storms
Beryl is a given name that has overwhelmingly been borne by females with reference to the mineral beryl. It is deemed unisex due to occasional American usage as a male name, likely a variant spelling of the surname Burrell whose seeming root is the Old French bovre, a reddish-brown woolen fabric with the resultant name denoting a worker in the wool trade; Beryl may also be a variant spelling of the Yiddish (Judeo-German) male name Berel.
Like most jewel names, Beryl's use as a female name dates from the late 19th-century: dancer Beryl de Zoete and actress Beryl Mercer would have been among the earliest namesakes being born respectively in 1879 and 1882. The female name Beryl was always more popular in the British Isles than in North America; since the mid-20th century the name has become somewhat unfashionable in the British Isles.
Usage examples of "beryl".
Dale, always at the head of his class in school and even the baby Beryl, as quick as anything to pick out words from her little books.
There was one chair which Beryl, scowling, pushed forward, at the same time sitting upon the bed.
Robin stopped suddenly, for Beryl was staring at her with rude amusement.
A stormy scene resulted which left the old housekeeper spent and Beryl blazing with indignation.
Its wrappings were old and loose so that as Beryl flounced her burden toward the suitcase, the content of the package slipped out and down to the floor.
She was going to tell Beryl about her play-prince but then, Beryl might laugh and she did not want that.
However Beryl was too proudly intent upon saving her pride to realize this and Robin, instinctively understanding, let her have her way.
Robin nor Beryl had the slightest intention of waiting in the funny little store where the crackers and tea and coffee looked as old as the old man who came out from behind the counter at their approach.
While Robin talked, Beryl swiftly surveyed the room and its occupants, not least of which was a great St.
Robin, uncomfortable but immensely curious and excited, sat on the edge of the settle and chattered, while Beryl, well behind their silent hostess, made mysterious signs with fingers and lips and eyes.
She herself was too indifferent to clothes to know that it was the two pretty gowns she had brought out from her wardrobe that had now sent Beryl into the dumps.
Robin came into the room with Beryl she looked so appealingly small that Mrs.
Lynch looked more distressed than before and Beryl glared at her brother.
But Adam Kraus, instead of showing the boredom which Beryl expected, studied it with absorbed keenness, quickly grasping what Dale wanted to do.
Jimmie was having his chance and Beryl was with her and Beryl was unfailingly interesting.