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A gemstone
Answer for the clue "A gemstone ", 5 letters:
beryl
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Word definitions for beryl in dictionaries
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in 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) ...
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ The walls are veined with rose and polished beryl - An ichor that you don't know how to tap.
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.