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单词 hip stone
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hip stone
hip stone n. Mineralogy Obsolete nephrite (the more common form of jade); a piece of this; see nephritic stone n. at nephritic n. and adj.1 Compounds.Nephrite was previously thought to be efficacious in treating kidney disease, which often presents as pain in the hip region. [Often in translations of foreign-language expressions with an element meaning ‘nephritic’ or (more immediately) ‘kidney’.]
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1768 J. R. Forster Introd. Mineral. 19 Hip-stone, nephritic stone (Lapis nephriticus) is a semi-diaphanous pot-stone,..unctuous to the touch, is capable of a tolerable polish and of a green colour.
1797 W. Johnston tr. J. Beckmann Hist. Inventions & Discov. I. 215 Vegetable dies, when united with wax, become greenish, so that the wax almost resembles the hip-stone [Ger. Nierenstein].
1879 L. Rousselet tr. M. de Hauteville Serpent-charmer xi. 139 The mosaics were formed of precious stones, agates, hip stones, turquoises, and fragments of crystal.
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