Crossword clues for sunstone
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Sunstone \Sun"stone`\, n. (Med.) Aventurine feldspar. See under Aventurine.
Wiktionary
n. (context mineralogy English) A translucent form of feldspar having flakes of hematite, used as an ornamental stone.
WordNet
n. a translucent quartz spangled with bits of mica or other minerals [syn: aventurine]
Wikipedia
Sunstone is a plagioclase feldspar, which when viewed from certain directions exhibits a spangled appearance. It has been found in Southern Norway, Sweden and in various United States localities.
Sunstone is a magazine published by the Sunstone Education Foundation, Inc., a 501(c)(3) nonprofit corporation, that discusses Mormonism through scholarship, art, short fiction, and poetry. The foundation began the publication in 1974 and considers it a vehicle for free and frank exchange in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church). The magazine's motto is Faith Seeking Understanding.
Sunstone is a mineral used as a gemstone.
Sunstone may also refer to:
- Sunstone (medieval), a crystal mentioned in medieval manuscripts in Iceland and supposed to reveal the position of the sun in overcast sky
- Sunstone (magazine), a periodical that discusses Mormonism through scholarship, art, short fiction, and poetry
- Aztec calendar stone, a sculpture excavated in the 18th century
- " Piedra de Sol" a poem by Octavio Paz
- Iceland spar, a transparent crystallized mineral
- An architectural motif in temples of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, see Temple architecture (LDS Church)
- An artificially-grown stone in the fantasy book series The Seventh Tower
- Sun Stone, a magical item used by titular character in the animated series Princess Gwenevere and the Jewel Riders
- Titular magical objects in the video game Hugo: The Quest for the Sunstones
- Sunstone (comics), an LGBT and BDSM related webcomic
- A fictional gemstone in the Little Fuzzy novel series
The sunstone is a type of mineral attested in several 13th–14th century written sources in Iceland, one of which describes its use to locate the sun in a completely overcast sky. Sunstones are also mentioned in the inventories of several churches and one monastery in 14th–15th century Iceland. A theory exists that the sunstone had polarizing attributes and was used as a navigation instrument by seafarers in the Viking Age.
A stone found in 2013 off Alderney, in the wreck of a 16th-century warship, may lend evidence of the existence of sunstones as navigational devices.
Sunstone is an ongoing adult webcomic series written and illustrated by Stjepan Šejić which was first published on DeviantArt in 2011. Šejić is assisted by his wife and fellow artist Linda Lukšić Šejić. The comic, described as an erotic romantic comedy, focuses on the relationship between Lisa and Ally and their mutual interest in BDSM culture. Sunstone has been collected by Image Comics and Top Cow Productions into trade paperback volumes.
Usage examples of "sunstone".
That rich sunstone strike on the Fuzzy Reservation has been leased back to the CZC, who are paying a royalty of four hundred fifty sols per carat for the privilege of working the diggings.
A year ago the place had been a quiet one-man camp from which Jack Holloway prospected for sunstones and lived a peaceably solitary life.
Company for mining that rich patch of sunstones Gerd and I found in Fuzzy territory just might be enough to keep everything afloat until after the constitutional elections.
The continued input of sunstones owned by the Company would keep the Company in a tough position which virtually amounted to control of sunstone prices.
His pockets laden with sunstones, he was squeezing through the narrow opening of the fissure.
The roof and walls were studded with sunstones, excited to thermofluoresence by the geothermal heat of the mountain.
He took out his pocket knife and went over to one of the side walls, intent on prying loose a couple of sunstones to take with him.
It oughta take about ten minutes for him to find out that we had sold some sunstones to get the money.
They told the interrogator a fascinating yarn about a mountain of sunstones on North Beta.
The hell of it is they had some sunstones on them and their story holds up under veridication.
Navy to strip Zarathustra of much of its native wealth, in the form of a huge sunstone deposit which has been uncovered on Northern Beta Continent.
In Tempest’s hilt was set a sunstone, the stone of antimagic, and Aydrian was using it now to send out the white noise, the antimagic.
Certainly it was easier to put up a sunstone antimagic wave than to utilize the spirit-walking ability of the soul stone.
Connected through his hematite, he could tell that there was some sunstone antimagic about, but it was nothing substantial out here, beyond the gate, and certainly nothing that would inhibit the power of King Aydrian.
Dor brought out his midnight sunstone gem and held it close to the hairs.