Crossword clues for cairngorm
The Collaborative International Dictionary
cairngorm \cairngorm\, Cairngormstone \Cairn*gorm"stone`\ [Gael. carn a cairn + gorm azure.] (Min.) A smoky yellow or brown variety of rock crystal, or crystallized quartz, found especially, in the mountain of Cairngorm, in Scotland.
Syn: smoky quartz.
WordNet
n. a smoky yellow or brown quartz [syn: smoky quartz]
Wikipedia
Cairngorm may refer to:
- Cairngorms, mountain range in the Scottish Highlands, and so Cairngorms National Park, national park in Scotland Cairngorm Mountain Railway Cairngorm (mineral), a form of smoky quartz, found in the Cairngorms Cairn Gorm, mountain in the Scottish Highlands, after which the range is named Cairngorm Mountain ski resort, ski and snowboarding recreation area on the mountain
- Cairngorm (Flex framework)
- Cairngorm (horse), American racehorse
Cairngorm (foaled 1902 in California) was an American Thoroughbred racehorse best known for winning the 1905 Preakness Stakes.
Usage examples of "cairngorm".
Jereko Kosta, here on a temporary study program from Clarkston University, Cairngorm, on Balmoral.
It was remarkably short, saying only that Kosta had joined the Institute six weeks earlier after graduating from Clarkston University in Cairngorm, Balmoral.
MacDonalds of Dhrum set with a fine cairngorm and some exquisite old paste.
The dagger at his hip was a border dirk set with a water-pale cairngorm in the pommel, like sunlight on peat in a highland stream.
In his full regalia the Buzzard mounted the platform, and as he took the oath placed one hand on the flashing yellow cairngorm in the hilt of his dagger.
They were gay in long cloaks of bright reds and blues and rich in ornaments of heavy gold or cairngorms set in silver brooches.
Cunningham-Craig, the mineral occurs in crystals lining cavities in highly-inclined veins of a fine-grained granite running through the coarser granite of the main mass: Shallow pits were formerly dug in the kaolinized granite for sake of the cairngorm and the mineral was also found as pebbles in the bed of the river Avon.
She was wrapped in a woolen arisaid, but even that was fastened by a handsome cairngorm brooch.
Cairngorm or Cairngorum, one of the peaks of the Grampian Mountains in Banffshire, Scotland.
It was all held together with a circular brooch, a large cairngorm set in the center.
They were gay in long cloaks of bright reds and blues and rich in ornaments of heavy gold or cairngorms set in silver brooches.
Smoky cairngorms smouldered baleful as serpents' eyes among the interlocking shapes and whorls.
Huddled miserably in one of the back seats of Francis Raeburn's helicopter, he spent the entire hour and more of the flight northward rehearsing his defenses, while the snow-covered forests of Balmoral rolled away beneath them and the white peaks of the Cairngorms rose ahead.
I'm thinking that it might be profitable to check out that area in the Cairngorms that he kept coming back to.
God knew, whatever was lurking up in the Cairngorms had something larger in mind than simply picking off Freemasons.