Crossword clues for cornelian
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Cornelian \Cor*nel"ian\ (k?r-n?lyan), n. [F. cornaline, OF. corneline, fr. L. cornu horn. So called from its horny appearance when broken. See Horn, and cf. Carnelian.] (Min.) Same as Carnelian.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"red variety of chalcedony," a variant of corneline (c.1400), from Old French corneline (Modern French cornaline), diminutive of corneola, probably from Vulgar Latin *cornea, from Latin cornus, name of a type of berry (see cornel).
Wiktionary
n. (context mineralogy English) (alternative form of carnelian English)
WordNet
n. a translucent red or orange variety of chalcedony [syn: carnelian]
Wikipedia
Cornelian (usually spelled "carnelian") is a reddish-brown variety of the mineral chalcedony.
Cornelian may also refer to:
- Cornelian automobile, a 1914 racing vehicle
- Cornelian Bay (disambiguation), multiple places
- Cornelian dilemma, a dilemma named after dramatist Pierre Corneille
- Cornelia (gens), an important gens in ancient Rome
- Deudorix epijarbas, an Asian butterfly
- A variety of plants in the dogwood family including
- Cornus florida
- Cornelian cherry
- Japanese cornelian cherry
Usage examples of "cornelian".
From the reports, the Celtiberians are absolutely boiling and the Lusitani creating havoc in the Further Province, where my remote Cornelian cousin Dolabella has had a trifling success or two without stamping rebellion out.
Then a blow on the shell shivered it to fragments, and they were blinded with seas of brilliancy on all sides from lamps and tapers and crystals, cornelians and gems of fiery lustre, liquid lights and flashing mirrors, and eyes of crowding damsels, bright ones.
Someone remarked on my finger a cornelian ring on which was engraved very beautifully the head of Louis XV.
He knew a vast deal about cairngorms and agates and such-like pretty things, and showed Charles quartz and felspar and red cornelian, and I don't know what else, in the crags on the hillside.
And along the lake and near the statue of Daniel Webster below Twelfth Street, the cornelian cherry shrubs would burst into early bloom.