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- Spinel - n. - Alt. of Spinelle
- Spinel - n. - Bleached yarn in making the linen tape called inkle; unwrought inkle.
- Spineless - a. - Having no spine.
- Spinelle - n. - A mineral occuring in octahedrons of great hardness and various colors, as red, green, blue, brown, and black, the red variety being the gem spinel ruby. It consist essentially of alumina and magnesia, but commonly contains iron and sometimes also chromium.
- Carbuncle - n. - A beautiful gem of a deep red color (with a mixture of scarlet) called by the Greeks anthrax; found in the East Indies. When held up to the sun, it loses its deep tinge, and becomes of the color of burning coal. The name belongs for the most part to ruby sapphire, though it has been also given to red spinel and garnet.
- Balas ruby - - A variety of spinel ruby, of a pale rose red, or inclining to orange. See Spinel.
- Franklinite - n. - A kind of mineral of the spinel group.
- Spinelle - n. - A mineral occuring in octahedrons of great hardness and various colors, as red, green, blue, brown, and black, the red variety being the gem spinel ruby. It consist essentially of alumina and magnesia, but commonly contains iron and sometimes also chromium.
- Dysluite - n. - A variety of the zinc spinel or gahnite.
- Lherzolite - n. - An igneous rock consisting largely of chrysolite, with pyroxene and picotite (a variety of spinel containing chromium).