spar-stonen.
Obsolete exc. dialect.† 1. Gypsum; plaster. Obsolete.
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the world > the earth > minerals > types of mineral > sulphates > [noun] > gypsum
spar-stonec1000
plastera1387
plaster stone1388
gyps1398
gesso1596
gypsum1646
gip1658
Paris gypsum1833
plaster rock1836
brushite1880
society > occupation and work > materials > raw material > mineral material > [noun] > gypsum
spar-stonec1000
gypsum1646
parget1657
satin spar1802
satin stone1803
satin gypsum1807
c1000 in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 146 Creta argentea, spærstan.
c1050 in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 334 Gipsum, spærstan.
c1150 in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 550 Gipsum, spærston.
1394–6 in J. C. Atkinson Cartularium Abbathiæ de Whiteby (1881) II. 623 Item pro sperstane et ratonbrede emptis, 11 s. 11 d.
1481 Descr. Boundaries Ripon in J. T. Fowler Acts Church SS. Peter & Wilfrid, Ripon (1875) 345 Usque ad quandam querruram de plaster vocatam Sparre stone.
2. A stone or rock having a crystalline appearance; quartz, spar.
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the world > the earth > minerals > types of mineral > [noun] > white lamellar mineral
spar1581
spaad1594
spar-stone1694
spat1706
sugar-spar1730
spath1763
chesil spar1835
the world > the earth > minerals > types of mineral > silicates > tectosilicate > [noun] > quartz
crystalOE
quartz1676
spar-stone1694
1694 W. Salmon Pharmacopœia Bateana i. xxiii. 848/1 If you cannot get the Lapis Judaicus, our English Spar-stone, (which is plentiful enough in those Countries where there are Leaden-mines) may supply the place.
1880 Cornwall Gloss. 53 A man of penetration he, For through a spar-stone he could see.
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