单词 | smaragd |
释义 | smaragdn. Now rare. A precious stone of a bright green colour; an emerald. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > materials > raw material > gem or precious stone > beryl > [noun] > emerald smaragda1300 emeraldc1300 prasine?c1335 smaragdine1382 smaragdus1382 smarald1599 prasine stone1665 α. in extended use.1562 A. Scott Poems (1896) i. 220 Cherie maist chaist,..Smaill sweit smaragde, smelling but smit of smot.β. 1567 J. Maplet Greene Forest f. 20 The Smaradge hath his name of his excellent and fresh greene colour.1608 E. Topsell Hist. Serpents 297 It is also said, that if a viper do behold a good Smaradge, her eyes will melt.1635 J. Swan Speculum Mundi vi. 296 The Emerald is a precious stone of a green colour, something like unto the Smaradge.1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory ii. 41/1 The Smaradge, is of an excellent fresh green, far passing any Leaf.a1300 in C. Brown Eng. Lyrics 13th Cent. (1932) 73 Smaragde, Beril, and crisopace. a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (St. John's Cambr.) (1865) I. 135 In þe whiche londe beeþ..smaragdes, and oþer precious stones. c1400 (?a1300) Kyng Alisaunder (Laud) (1952) l. 5674 Safyres, smaragdes, and margarites. ?a1425 Mandeville's Trav. (Egerton) (1889) 25 Þare þai fynd..þe fairest smaragdes þat er ower whare. 1445 tr. Claudian's De Consulatu Stilichonis in Anglia (1905) 28 265 Habergeownys also with smaragdis grene, & helmys with iacincte clere. 1555 R. Eden tr. Peter Martyr of Angleria Decades of Newe Worlde iii. v. f. 115 The Smaragde is the trew emerode. 1583 R. Greene Mamillia i. f. 10 What is more pleasaunt to the sight, then a Smaragde, yet what lesse profitable, if it be not vsed? 1638 F. Junius Painting of Ancients 178 The famous sealing~ring of Polycrates was a Smaragde. 1686 R. Plot Nat. Hist. Staffs. ii. 55 Borax or green Earth..is the better, by how much the nearer it comes to the colour of a true Smaragd. 1728 E. Chambers Cycl. (at cited word) The Oriental Smaragds are the most in Esteem, as being the hardest, and their Splendor the most vigorous. 1847 W. M. Thackeray Codlingsby in Novels Emin. Hands III. xxiv Ruby, amethyst, and smaragd. 1885 R. F. Burton tr. Arabian Nights' Entertainm. (1887) III. 41 Its skirts were set with the greenest smaragds. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1912; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < |
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