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A translucent quartz spangled with bits of mica or other minerals
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sunstone
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Sunstone is an ongoing adult webcomic series written and illustrated by Stjepan Šejić which was first published on DeviantArt in 2011. Šejić is assisted by his wife and fellow artist Linda Lukšić Šejić. The comic, described as an erotic romantic comedy ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Sunstone \Sun"stone`\, n. (Med.) Aventurine feldspar. See under Aventurine .
Wiktionary
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n. (context mineralogy English) A translucent form of feldspar having flakes of hematite, used as an ornamental stone.
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a translucent quartz spangled with bits of mica or other minerals [syn: aventurine ]
Usage examples of sunstone.
That rich sunstone strike on the Fuzzy Reservation has been leased back to the CZC, who are paying a royalty of four hundred fifty sols per carat for the privilege of working the diggings.
A year ago the place had been a quiet one-man camp from which Jack Holloway prospected for sunstones and lived a peaceably solitary life.
Company for mining that rich patch of sunstones Gerd and I found in Fuzzy territory just might be enough to keep everything afloat until after the constitutional elections.
The continued input of sunstones owned by the Company would keep the Company in a tough position which virtually amounted to control of sunstone prices.
His pockets laden with sunstones, he was squeezing through the narrow opening of the fissure.
The roof and walls were studded with sunstones, excited to thermofluoresence by the geothermal heat of the mountain.
He took out his pocket knife and went over to one of the side walls, intent on prying loose a couple of sunstones to take with him.
It oughta take about ten minutes for him to find out that we had sold some sunstones to get the money.
They told the interrogator a fascinating yarn about a mountain of sunstones on North Beta.
The hell of it is they had some sunstones on them and their story holds up under veridication.
Navy to strip Zarathustra of much of its native wealth, in the form of a huge sunstone deposit which has been uncovered on Northern Beta Continent.
In Tempest’s hilt was set a sunstone, the stone of antimagic, and Aydrian was using it now to send out the white noise, the antimagic.
Certainly it was easier to put up a sunstone antimagic wave than to utilize the spirit-walking ability of the soul stone.
Connected through his hematite, he could tell that there was some sunstone antimagic about, but it was nothing substantial out here, beyond the gate, and certainly nothing that would inhibit the power of King Aydrian.
Dor brought out his midnight sunstone gem and held it close to the hairs.