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sardonyx
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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Sardonyx \Sar"do*nyx\, n. [L., fr. Gr. ?. See Sard , and Onyx .] (Min.) A variety of onyx consisting of sard and white chalcedony in alternate layers.
WordNet
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n. an onyx characterized by parallel layers of sard and a different colored mineral
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The Sardonyx was an electric guitar made in small numbers in the late 1970s. The guitar was notable because of its small rectangular wood body that had "outrigger" aluminum tubes running parallel to the body. Popularized by Howard Leese , then guitarist ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. A gemstone having bands of red sard; a variety of onyx or chalcedony.
Usage examples of sardonyx.
Now he had nothing: no money -- well, very damn little, just enough to survive -- no dorazine to sell, not even the name of a contact in Sardonyx Sector.
He wondered if, by some lucky chance, Russell might be working Sardonyx Sector.
Indeed, the redhead had warned him sharply that if he was planning to turn drug courier, he should stay well away from Sardonyx Sector.
The drug runners were bringing in comine, nightshade, tabac, zimweed, but the pressure was on in Sector Sardonyx, and no one was carrying dorazine.
The colonies in Sardonyx Sector sent their criminals there, with tents and tools and packets of seed.
Each year the Net traveled to Sabado, Belle, Ley, and Enchanter, the other four worlds of Sardonyx Sector, to choose prisoners from their prisons to fill the Net cells.
The contract-slave system into which Sector Sardonyx impressed its criminals was no better or worse than methods in other places.
The Yago Net transports dorazine to the prisons of Sector Sardonyx, and nowhere else.
I could never work Sardonyx Sector again, and when word got around -- and it would -- no other sector either.
Transporting dorazine inter-sector is illegal, punishable by a high fine and a prison term, which in Sector Sardonyx translates to -- this.
She had at once sent a communication to all Family Yago associates throughout Sector Sardonyx, requesting information about the man.
Binkie computed for me this morning our storage figures and our demand figures: what we will need to supply the Net, the prisons of Sector Sardonyx, and our own workers at the kerit farm for one more year.
Only beings arrested and convicted of criminal activities within Sardonyx Sector may be subject to slavery, and only the worlds of Sardonyx Sector may offer prisoners to the slave auction, understanding that when they do so, these criminals, whatever their crimes, talents, and places of origin, may serve out their sentences to become citizens of Chabad with all due rights, privileges, and responsibilities.
But the Federation had bound itself not to interfere with local custom, and the other worlds in Sardonyx Sector supported Chabad.
Chabad will never see me again, and Sector Sardonyx and Family Yago can go to hell!