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Variety of quartz
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jasper
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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
precious stone, c.1300, from Anglo-French jaspre , Old French jaspre , jaspe , from Latin iaspidem (nominative iaspis ), from Greek iaspis "jasper," via an Oriental language (compare Hebrew yashpeh , Akkadian yashupu ).
Gazetteer
Word definitions in Gazetteer
Population (2000): 14052 Housing Units (2000): 6473 Land area (2000): 26.870043 sq. miles (69.593089 sq. km) Water area (2000): 0.011886 sq. miles (0.030785 sq. km) Total area (2000): 26.881929 sq. miles (69.623874 sq. km) FIPS code: 38416 Located within: ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Wedgwood ware \Wedg"wood` ware`\ [From the name of the inventor, Josiah Wedgwood, of England.] A kind of fine pottery, the most remarkable being what is called jasper , either white, or colored throughout the body, and capable of being molded into the most ...
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ The cross is a masterpiece of red jasper , gold, gilded silver and jewels and dates from the eleventh or twelfth-centuries.
Usage examples of jasper.
Jasper, she ignited her thrusters and her stomach settled as acceleration gripped her.
Turquoise were the most numerous, but other stones included rose quartz, red jasper, leopard jasper, amethyst, lapis lazuli, opal, bloodstone, tiger-eye, azurite, malachite, and more beyond reckoning.
Several skiffs, bateaux, and canoes were hauled up on the shore, and in the cove itself lay the little craft from which Jasper obtained his claim to be considered a sailor.
Jasper looked up at Hannah and gave her a small smile, his tiny obsidian eyes expressing a much becalmed disposition.
I went for a walk with Bettina and Jasper shortly after my talk with Jasper, leaving Tish with the evening paper and Aggie inhaling a cubeb cigarette, her hay fever having threatened a return.
His right hand moved, as if he were plucking a string, and Fiddlesticks, Jasper, and Scorn appeared on the green marble in front of Morwen.
Jasper took Ged to sit with a heavyset fellow called Vetch, who said nothing much but shovelled in his food with a will.
He had the accent of the East Reach, and was very dark of skin, not red-brown like Ged and Jasper and most folk of the Archipelago, but black-brown.
Clarke and the rest of the team at Kent Clarke Films all said that both Jasper and the tablet were still in the meeting room when they packed up their gear and left, Daniel to his home in Hanga Roa, Kent and Brittany to their room, and Mike to his end of the bar.
Celts or knives made of jasper and yellowish jaspery slate, which range from 2 to 5 inches in length, and are less than 1 inch in width and half an inch in thickness.
France, plus two broken pieces of an Indian spearpoint knapped from a bright-red stone that he was sure was jasper.
France, plus two broken pieces of an Indian spear point knapped from a bright-red stone that he was sure was jasper.
Three hundred yards away, however, Loge rose again and shook a furious fist at the Jasper B.
Watching their pantomime closely, Cleggett gathered that Loge was endeavoring to enforce some point of view with regard to the Jasper B.
Cleggett, straining to meet Loge, who hung sword to sword with Wilton Barnstable, saw Giuseppe Jones, deserted by his nurses, tumbling feebly over the bow of the Jasper B.