Crossword clues for jacinth
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Jacinth \Ja"cinth\, n. [F. jacinthe, L. hyacinthus. See
Hyacinth.]
See Hyacinth.
--Tennyson.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
c.1200, a blue gem (occasionally a red one), from Old French jacinte "hyacinth; jacinth" (see hyacinth). In modern use, a reddish-orange gem.
Wiktionary
n. A translucent, reddish type of zircon used as a gemstone; a hyacinth.
WordNet
n. a red transparent variety of zircon used as a gemstone [syn: hyacinth]
Wikipedia
Jacinth is an orange-red transparent variety of zircon used as a gemstone. Jacinth is also a flower of a reddish blue or deep purple ( hyacinth).
It has been supposed to designate the same stone as the ligure ( Hebrew leshem) mentioned in Exodus 28:19 as the first stone of the third row in the high priest's breast-plate, the Hoshen. or choshen. In Revelation 9:17 the word is simply descriptive of colour.
Jacinth (1970–1992) was a British Thoroughbred racehorse and broodmare. In a racing career which lasted from May 1972 until August 1973 she won five of her seven races and finished second in the other two. In 1972 she was rated the best two-year-old of either sex in Britain on the strength of a five length win in the Cheveley Park Stakes. In the following season she was beaten when odds-on favourite for the classic 1000 Guineas but went on to win the Coronation Stakes, Falmouth Stakes and Goodwood Mile. She was retired to stud and had some success as a dam of winners. She died in 1992.
Usage examples of "jacinth".
Midsummer, as I was fishing and watching the glimmer chafers in the great fishpool above our moat, with Rosamond and our loved Jacinth by my side, that a rider appeared before the drawbridge, charged with a message from King Edward, commanding me to attend him forthwith at Malvern Magna, whither he had journeyed accompanied by his Queen, his son the Prince of Wales, and the Princess Elizabeth.
The jeweler identified them with taps, as he reeled off the list: citrine, peridot, chrysoberyl, rubellite, almandine, jacinth.
Its light shone on ordinary boulders and rocks and pebbles, and transformed them into topaz or jacinths or the opals we called firefly stones.
The emeralds and jacinths and topazes and amethysts, he said, were even more valuable—above all, the emeralds—though he would have preferred them cut in facets instead of sculptured into miniature flowers and animals and such.
There were massive gold bracelets on his arms, bracelets set with jacinths and opals, carnelians and flashing emeralds.
Edward II gave to Piers Gaveston a suit of red-gold armour studded with jacinths, a collar of gold roses set with turquoise-stones, and a skull-cap parseme with pearls.
Because Solan and Arandite were both in for temporary repairs Jacinth had to take out a scratch team to search through the Gap and its approaches before a convoy slipped through in the darkest hour.