Crossword clues for gemmed
gemmed
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Gem \Gem\ v. t. [imp. & p. p. Gemmed; p. pr. & vb. n. Gemming]
To put forth in the form of buds. ``Gemmed their blossoms.'' [R.]
--Milton.To adorn with gems or precious stones.
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To embellish or adorn, as with gems; as, a foliage gemmed with dewdrops.
England is . . . gemmed with castles and palaces.
--W. Irving.
Wiktionary
vb. (en-pastgem)
WordNet
See gem
adj. covered with beads or jewels or sequins [syn: beaded, beady, bejeweled, bejewelled, bespangled, jeweled, jewelled, sequined, spangled, spangly]
n. a crystalline rock that can be cut and polished for jewelry; "he had the gem set in a ring for his wife"; "she had jewels made of all the rarest stones" [syn: gemstone, stone]
art highly prized for its beauty or perfection [syn: treasure]
a person who is a brilliant and precious as a piece of jewelry [syn: jewel]
a sweet quick bread baked in a cup-shaped pan [syn: muffin]
a precious or semiprecious stone incorporated into a piece of jewelry [syn: jewel, precious stone]
Usage examples of "gemmed".
Above us, crouching against the blast of our going, streamed like a silken banner Norhala's hair, gemmed with the witch lights.
A moment and he backed, flattening himself against the wall, the gemmed pin gripped sword-fashion in his right hand.
She stretched out her four-digit hand, her slender arm ringed with gemmed circles and bands, measuring it beside his own, bearing that livid scar.
Bands of jewel colors made designs about each throat in gemmed collars, ran down in spirals over chest, waist, thigh, braceleting the slender legs and arms.
Two of them glittered with embroidery of gold and silver, and their buckles and belts were gemmed, as were the guards and hilts of the knives they wore.
Manny stepped up to place the gemmed dagger and the sealed jar before his commander.
He was, however, not offered arms, not even the gemmed dagger Manny had taken from him.
These were occupied not only by men wearing black (though it was richly overhung with gemmed chains), but by a number of women who were eating bits from boxes being passed around, laughing and talking feverishly.
Raising both hands, with the gemmed wrists purple fire in the sun, she began to move them back and forth, gesturing as one might to draw a curtain.
Tail plumes filled all the space to the hem, every plume with a gemmed eye.
Now people could see Stenta's slender arms clad in scarlet silk, her gemmed bracelets, the narrow, long-fingered hands.
The Faithful—wearing their long hair loose, with gemmed coup markers pinned to every inch of it—were much in evidence, one or two leaving with each vehicle, some loading crates into still other vehicles, some walking purposefully along the wall toward the flocks that had been penned for some days against the walls.
Before him a plump man with his gemmed woman roared with sudden mirth.