单词 | hip stone |
释义 | > as lemmaship stone ΚΠ 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. < as lemmas |
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