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† ˈjet-stone Obs.
[f. jet n.1 + stone.]
1. The mineral jet (jet n.1 1).
1552Huloet, Ieate stone, gagates. 1596Dalrymple tr. Leslie's Hist. Scot. I. 47 In Ingland the Jeit stane is abundant. 1611J. Davies Commend. Poem Coryat's Crudities 6 It giues wits edge, and drawes them too like Ietstone. 1748tr. V. Renatus' Distemp. Horses 42 Of Jeat-stone, male and female, three ounces each.
2. A piece of black marble or other black stone.
1598Yong Diana 103 In the middes of the garden stoode a Ieat-stone vpon fower brazen pillers: and in the mids of it a tombe framed out of Iaspar. 1613Purchas Pilgrimage (1614) 546 In the morning..he is at his Beads,..in a private faire roome, upon a faire Jet-stone. |