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A skilled worker who cuts and engraves precious stones
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lapidary
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Lapidary may mean: Lapidary , an artisan working with precious stones, see hardstone carving Lapidary (text) a treatise on gemology, especially when pre-modern Old English Lapidary a collective term for stone inscriptions or jewellery in general a literary ...
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Lapidary \Lap"i*da*ry\, a. [L. lapidarius pertaining to stone: cf. F. lapidaire.] Of or pertaining to the art of cutting stones, or engraving on stones, either gems or monuments; as, lapidary ornamentation. Of or pertaining to monumental inscriptions; as, ...
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adj. of or relating to precious stones or the art of working with them; "the ring is of no lapidary value"- Lord Byron; "lapidary art" n. an expert on precious stones and the art of cutting and engraving them [syn: lapidarist ] a skilled worker who cuts ...
Usage examples of lapidary.
Great Yard, enjoying the sun, enjoying the shade and the majesty of the ancient trees, chattering away into their cell phones, which their daddies could pay for as easily as drawing their next breath, suffused with the conspicuous lapidary consumption of all this royal Middle English Gothic architecture and the knowledge that they were among that elite minifraction of the youth of Americaof the youth of the world!
After them march the guilds and trades and trainbands with flying colours: coopers, bird fanciers, millwrights, newspaper canvassers, law scriveners, masseurs, vintners, trussmakers, chimneysweeps, lard refiners, tabinet and poplin weavers, farriers, Italian warehousemen, church decorators, bootjack manufacturers, undertakers, silk mercers, lapidaries, salesmasters, corkcutters, assessors of fire losses, dyers and cleaners, export bottlers, fellmongers, ticketwriters, heraldic seal engravers, horse repository hands, bullion brokers, cricket and archery outfitters, riddlemakers, egg and potato factors, hosiers and glovers, plumbing contractors.
Below the plaza were three service levels: the stables and garages at the bottom, next the Mek shops and Mek living quarters, then the various storerooms, warehouses and special shops: bakery, brewery, lapidary, arsenal, repository, and the like.
Instead, he went to the little museum within the Earth Spires kept by the Sodality of Lapidaries.
The Herricks were not a family of goldsmiths and lapidaries for nothing.
Bernabe' rolled the concept of painted cattleguards around in his brain the way a lapidary rolls a rough stone around in a rock tumbler to make it smooth.
The people of that period considered it indispensable to translate the whole world into a forest of Symbols, Hints, Equestrian Games, Masquerades, Paintings, Courtly Arms, Trophies, Blazons, Escutcheons, Ironic Figures, Sculpted Obverses of Coins, Fables, Allegories, Apologias, Epigrams, Riddles, Equivocations, Proverbs, Watchwords, Laconic Epistles, Epitaphs, Parerga, Lapidary Engravings, Shields, Glyphs, Clipei, and if I may, I will stop here—but they did not stop.
They intruded upon lapidaries and painters and basketmakers and rehearsing musicians.
He worked down at Coonskin Central and they let him have the corner of the shop for his lapidary outfit.
The strategy, then, is to make the Cap'n Crunch chew itself by grinding the nuggets together in the center of the oral cavity, like stones in a lapidary tumbler.