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- Diamond - n. - A precious stone or gem excelling in brilliancy and beautiful play of prismatic colors, and remarkable for extreme hardness.
- Diamond - n. - A geometrical figure, consisting of four equal straight lines, and having two of the interior angles acute and two obtuse; a rhombus; a lozenge.
- Diamond - n. - One of a suit of playing cards, stamped with the figure of a diamond.
- Diamond - n. - A pointed projection, like a four-sided pyramid, used for ornament in lines or groups.
- Diamond - n. - The infield; the square space, 90 feet on a side, having the bases at its angles.
- Diamond - n. - The smallest kind of type in English printing, except that called brilliant, which is seldom seen.
- Diamond - a. - Resembling a diamond; made of, or abounding in, diamonds; as, a diamond chain; a diamond field.
- Diamond-back - n. - The salt-marsh terrapin of the Atlantic coast (Malacoclemmys palustris).
- Diamond-shaped - a. - Shaped like a diamond or rhombus.
- Diamonded - a. - Having figures like a diamond or lozenge.
- Diamonded - a. - Adorned with diamonds; diamondized.
- Diamondize - v. t. - To set with diamonds; to adorn; to enrich.
- Mount - v. t. - Hence: To put upon anything that sustains and fits for use, as a gun on a carriage, a map or picture on cloth or paper; to prepare for being worn or otherwise used, as a diamond by setting, or a sword blade by adding the hilt, scabbard, etc.
- Doop - n. - A little copper cup in which a diamond is held while being cut.
- Adamant - n. - A stone imagined by some to be of impenetrable hardness; a name given to the diamond and other substances of extreme hardness; but in modern mineralogy it has no technical signification. It is now a rhetorical or poetical name for the embodiment of impenetrable hardness.
- Turbot - n. - Any one of numerous species of flounders more or less related to the true turbots, as the American plaice, or summer flounder (see Flounder), the halibut, and the diamond flounder (Hypsopsetta guttulata) of California.
- Return - v. t. - To lead in response to the lead of one's partner; as, to return a trump; to return a diamond for a club.
- Skive - n. - The iron lap used by diamond polishers in finishing the facets of the gem.
- Rattlesnake - n. - Any one of several species of venomous American snakes belonging to the genera Crotalus and Caudisona, or Sistrurus. They have a series of horny interlocking joints at the end of the tail which make a sharp rattling sound when shaken. The common rattlesnake of the Northern United States (Crotalus horridus), and the diamond rattlesnake of the South (C. adamanteus), are the best known. See Illust. of Fang.
- Diamond-shaped - a. - Shaped like a diamond or rhombus.
- Diamond - a. - Resembling a diamond; made of, or abounding in, diamonds; as, a diamond chain; a diamond field.
- Itacolumite - n. - A laminated, granular, siliceous rocks, often occurring in regions where the diamond is found.
- Water rattler - - The diamond rattlesnake (Crotalus adamanteus); -- so called from its preference for damp places near water.
- Diamonded - a. - Having figures like a diamond or lozenge.
- Forty-spot - n. - The Tasmanian forty-spotted diamond bird (Pardalotus quadragintus).
- Solitaire - n. - A single diamond in a setting; also, sometimes, a precious stone of any kind set alone.
- Brilliant - a. - A diamond or other gem of the finest cut, formed into faces and facets, so as to reflect and refract the light, by which it is rendered more brilliant. It has at the middle, or top, a principal face, called the table, which is surrounded by a number of sloping facets forming a bizet; below, it has a small face or collet, parallel to the table, connected with the girdle by a pavilion of elongated facets. It is thus distinguished from the rose diamond, which is entirely covered with facets on the surface, and is flat below.
- Drop - n. - That which resembles, or that which hangs like, a liquid drop; as a hanging diamond ornament, an earring, a glass pendant on a chandelier, a sugarplum (sometimes medicated), or a kind of shot or slug.
- Adamantine - a. - Like the diamond in hardness or luster.
- Grozing iron - - A tool with a hardened steel point, formerly used instead of a diamond for cutting glass.
- Table - n. - The upper flat surface of a diamond or other precious stone, the sides of which are cut in angles.
- Water - n. - The limpidity and luster of a precious stone, especially a diamond; as, a diamond of the first water, that is, perfectly pure and transparent. Hence, of the first water, that is, of the first excellence.
- Hardness - n. - The cohesion of the particles on the surface of a body, determined by its capacity to scratch another, or be itself scratched;-measured among minerals on a scale of which diamond and talc form the extremes.
- Boron - n. - A nonmetallic element occurring abundantly in borax. It is reduced with difficulty to the free state, when it can be obtained in several different forms; viz., as a substance of a deep olive color, in a semimetallic form, and in colorless quadratic crystals similar to the diamond in hardness and other properties. It occurs in nature also in boracite, datolite, tourmaline, and some other minerals. Atomic weight 10.9. Symbol B.
- Carbonado - n. - A black variety of diamond, found in Brazil, and used for diamond drills. It occurs in irregular or rounded fragments, rarely distinctly crystallized, with a texture varying from compact to porous.
- Cascalho - n. - A deposit of pebbles, gravel, and ferruginous sand, in which the Brazilian diamond is usually found.
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- H8068 שָׁמִיר - 8068 שָׁמִיר - שָׁמִיר - - shâmîyr - shaw-meer' - from שָׁמַר in the original sense of pricking; a thorn; also (from its keenness for scratching) a gem, probably the diamond; adamant (stone), brier, diamond. - Noun Masculine - heb
- H3095 יַהֲלֹם - 3095 יַהֲלֹם - יַהֲלֹם - - yahălôm - yah-hal-ome' - from הָלַם (in the sense of hardness); a precious stone, probably onyx; diamond. - - heb
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- Exodus 2 28:18 And the second row shall be an emerald, a sapphire, and a diamond.
שֵׁנִי טוּר נֹפֶךְ סַפִּיר יַהֲלֹם - Jeremiah 24 17:1 The sin of Judah is written with a pen of iron, and with the point of a diamond: it is graven upon the table of their heart, and upon the horns of your altars;
חַטָּאָה יְהוּדָה כָּתַב עֵט בַּרְזֶל צִפֹּרֶן שָׁמִיר חָרַשׁ לוּחַ לֵב קֶרֶן מִזְבֵּחַ - Exodus 2 39:11 And the second row, an emerald, a sapphire, and a diamond.
שֵׁנִי טוּר נֹפֶךְ סַפִּיר יַהֲלֹם - Ezekiel 26 28:13 Thou hast been in Eden the garden of God; every precious stone was thy covering, the sardius, topaz, and the diamond, the beryl, the onyx, and the jasper, the sapphire, the emerald, and the carbuncle, and gold: the workmanship of thy tabrets and of thy pipes was prepared in thee in the day that thou wast created.
עֵדֶן גַּן אֱלֹהִים יָקָר אֶבֶן מְסֻכָּה אֹדֶם פִּטְדָה יַהֲלֹם תַּרְשִׁישׁ שֹׁהַם יָשְׁפֵה סַפִּיר נֹפֶךְ בָּרֶקֶת זָהָב מְלָאכָה תֹּף נֶקֶב כּוּן יוֹם בָּרָא