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▪ I. sapphirine, n. Min.|ˈsæfɪraɪn|
Also saphirine.
[f. sapphire + -ine5.]
a. A silicate of aluminium and magnesium found in pale blue grains.
b. A blue variety of spinel.
†c. An early name for blue chalcedony (obs.).
The term (in Ger. form saphirin) was applied in its now usual meaning by Giesecke 1819; it had been used in 1808 by K. W. Nose for haüynite.
1823H. J. Brooke Crystallogr. 489. 1836 T. Thomson Min., Geol., etc. I. 218 Sapphirine. This mineral was discovered by Sir Charles Giesecke, in Greenland... It has a pale sapphire blue colour. 1866Brande & Cox Dict. Sci., etc. s.v. Mineralogy 533/1 Chalcedonic Quartz... Saphirine. 1883M. F. Heddle in Encycl. Brit. XVI. 386/2 Spinel..Sapphirine is pale sapphire-blue to greenish or reddish blue.
▪ II. sapphirine, a.1|ˈsæfɪraɪn|
Forms: 5 saphyryn, 7 saphyrin, 7–8 saphirine, 8–9 sappharine, 7– sapphirine.
[ad. L. sapphīrinus, a. Gr. σαπϕείρινος, f. σάπϕειρος sapphire.]
Consisting of or like sapphire, having the qualities of sapphire, esp. the colour.
sapphirine gurnard: see gurnard.
1413Pilgr. Sowle (Caxton) v. v. (1859) 76 This Cercle in his bordure was of mesurable brede of coloure, saphyryn, and was redyly lyned by ordre, and set full of sterres. a1631Donne Elegy [xi.] Poems (1633) 296 She was too Saphirine and cleare to thee; Clay, flint, and jeat now thy fit dwellings be. 1672Phil. Trans. VII. 5044 The same water..appears of a Saphyrin blew. 1672Boyle Ess. Orig. & Virt. Gems i. 38 Jewellers reckon among Saphires..another sort of Stones, because of their Saphirine degree of hardness. 1769Pennant Zool. III. 176 The irides sappharine; the head flat. Ibid. (1776) III. 245 Sapphirine Gurnard. 1833Fraser's Mag. VIII. 63 The sapphirine pavement of heaven. 1835Browning Paracelsus ii. 46 No nymph..Or sapphirine spirit of a twilight star. 1878T. Hardy Ret. Native iv. v, The sapphirine hue of the zenith in spring.
b. absol.
1822W. Tennant Thane of Fife i. xxxi, He..with his feet..Smote soundingly the pavement's sapphirine. 1887Browning Parleyings, G. de Lairesse xi, Thunder from the safe sky's sapphirine.
▪ III. ˈsapphirine, a.2
[f. mod.L. Sapphirina, subst. use of the fem. of L. sapphīrin-us: see prec.]
Of or pertaining to, or characteristic of the Sapphirina, a genus of copepods of the N.O. Sapphirinidæ.
1897Jrnl. Mar. Zool. Dec. 111 Sapphirine copepods. |