单词 | jet stone |
释义 | jet stonen.ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > materials > raw material > gem or precious stone > jet > [noun] gagatec900 jeta1398 nigera1500 jet stone?1545 the world > the earth > minerals > types of mineral > hydrocarbon minerals > [noun] > coal > lignite > jet gagatec900 jeta1398 agate?1483 jet stone?1545 black amber1658 ?1545 C. Langton Introd. Phisycke sig. Dv The power attractiue is a vertue which..doth drawe vnto it thynges of lyke qualities..as the adamant stone draweth yrom, the iette stone chaffe, or strawe. 1596 J. Dalrymple tr. J. Leslie Hist. Scotl. (1888) I. 47 In Ingland the Jeit stane is abundant. 1611 J. Davies in T. Coryate Crudities sig. i2v It giues wits edge, and drawes them too like Ietstone. 1748 tr. Vegetius Of Distempers Horses 42 Of Jeat-stone, male and female, three ounces each. 1806 B. Lambert Hist. & Surv. London & Environs I. ii. 11 The gagates or jet-stone, by which is perhaps meant coal. 2. A piece of jet, black marble, or other black stone. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > materials > raw material > mineral material > [noun] > jet jeta1398 nigera1500 jet stone1598 the world > the earth > structure of the earth > constituent materials > rock > metamorphic rock > [noun] > marble > black > piece of jet stone1598 1598 B. Yong tr. J. de Montemayor Diana iv. 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. 1613 S. Purchas Pilgrimage 546 In the morning..he is at his Beads,..in a private faire roome, upon a faire Jet-stone. 1649 W. Grey Chorographia 15 One stately Tombe of that worthy benefactor, Roger de Thornton, having a large jet stone, curiously ingraven with his Armes. 1828 J. Campbell Tariff 30/1 Jet stones, 15 per cent. 1897 Times Democrat (Lima, Ohio) 1 Sept. 3/3 Net bands encrusted with jet stones and beads. 1956 Times 28 Feb. 5/1 A silver bracelet set with small jet stones. 1997 N.Y. Times 7 Nov. a13/3 The designers..work out intricate designs combining embroidery, bugle beads, jet stones, pearls and crystals. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2011; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.?1545 |
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