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‖ hammochrysos Min.|hæməʊˈkraɪsɒs|
[L. (Pliny), a. Gr. ἁµµόχρῡσος, f. ἅµµος sand + χρυσός gold.]
A sparkling stone mentioned by the ancients; perhaps yellow micaceous schist, or the sand from it.
1706in Phillips (ed. Kersey). 1750tr. Leonardus' Mirr. Stones 110. 1868 Dana Min. 302. 1876 T. Hardy Ethelberta (1890) 321 Nearly everything was glass in the frontage of this fairy mart, and its contents glittered like the hammochrysos stone. |