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jasper
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Jasper
(gcide) | Jasper \Jas"per\, n. [OE. jaspre, jaspe, OF. jaspre, jaspe, F.
jaspe, L. iaspis, Gr. ?; cf. Per. yashp, yashf, Ar. yashb,
yasb, yasf, Heb. y[=a]shpheh. Cf. Diaper.] (Min.)
An opaque, impure variety of quartz, of red, yellow, and
other dull colors, breaking with a smooth surface. It admits
of a high polish, and is used for vases, seals, snuff boxes,
etc. When the colors are in stripes or bands, it is called
striped jasper or banded jasper. The Egyptian pebble is a
brownish yellow jasper.
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Jasper opal, a yellow variety of opal resembling jasper.
Jasper ware, a delicate kind of earthenware invented by
Josiah Wedgwood. It is usually white, but is capable of
receiving color.
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jasper
(gcide) | Wedgwood ware \Wedg"wood` ware`\ [From the name of the inventor,
Josiah Wedgwood, of England.]
A kind of fine pottery, the most remarkable being what is
called jasper, either white, or colored throughout the
body, and capable of being molded into the most delicate
forms, so that fine and minute bas-reliefs like cameos were
made of it, fit even for being set as jewels.
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jasper
(wn) | jasper
n 1: an opaque form of quartz; red or yellow or brown or dark
green in color; used for ornamentation or as a gemstone |
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jaspers
(encz) | Jaspers, |
banded jasper
(gcide) | Jasper \Jas"per\, n. [OE. jaspre, jaspe, OF. jaspre, jaspe, F.
jaspe, L. iaspis, Gr. ?; cf. Per. yashp, yashf, Ar. yashb,
yasb, yasf, Heb. y[=a]shpheh. Cf. Diaper.] (Min.)
An opaque, impure variety of quartz, of red, yellow, and
other dull colors, breaking with a smooth surface. It admits
of a high polish, and is used for vases, seals, snuff boxes,
etc. When the colors are in stripes or bands, it is called
striped jasper or banded jasper. The Egyptian pebble is a
brownish yellow jasper.
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Jasper opal, a yellow variety of opal resembling jasper.
Jasper ware, a delicate kind of earthenware invented by
Josiah Wedgwood. It is usually white, but is capable of
receiving color.
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Jasper
(gcide) | Jasper \Jas"per\, n. [OE. jaspre, jaspe, OF. jaspre, jaspe, F.
jaspe, L. iaspis, Gr. ?; cf. Per. yashp, yashf, Ar. yashb,
yasb, yasf, Heb. y[=a]shpheh. Cf. Diaper.] (Min.)
An opaque, impure variety of quartz, of red, yellow, and
other dull colors, breaking with a smooth surface. It admits
of a high polish, and is used for vases, seals, snuff boxes,
etc. When the colors are in stripes or bands, it is called
striped jasper or banded jasper. The Egyptian pebble is a
brownish yellow jasper.
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Jasper opal, a yellow variety of opal resembling jasper.
Jasper ware, a delicate kind of earthenware invented by
Josiah Wedgwood. It is usually white, but is capable of
receiving color.
[1913 Webster]Wedgwood ware \Wedg"wood` ware`\ [From the name of the inventor,
Josiah Wedgwood, of England.]
A kind of fine pottery, the most remarkable being what is
called jasper, either white, or colored throughout the
body, and capable of being molded into the most delicate
forms, so that fine and minute bas-reliefs like cameos were
made of it, fit even for being set as jewels.
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Jasper opal
(gcide) | Jasper \Jas"per\, n. [OE. jaspre, jaspe, OF. jaspre, jaspe, F.
jaspe, L. iaspis, Gr. ?; cf. Per. yashp, yashf, Ar. yashb,
yasb, yasf, Heb. y[=a]shpheh. Cf. Diaper.] (Min.)
An opaque, impure variety of quartz, of red, yellow, and
other dull colors, breaking with a smooth surface. It admits
of a high polish, and is used for vases, seals, snuff boxes,
etc. When the colors are in stripes or bands, it is called
striped jasper or banded jasper. The Egyptian pebble is a
brownish yellow jasper.
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Jasper opal, a yellow variety of opal resembling jasper.
Jasper ware, a delicate kind of earthenware invented by
Josiah Wedgwood. It is usually white, but is capable of
receiving color.
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Jasper ware
(gcide) | Jasper \Jas"per\, n. [OE. jaspre, jaspe, OF. jaspre, jaspe, F.
jaspe, L. iaspis, Gr. ?; cf. Per. yashp, yashf, Ar. yashb,
yasb, yasf, Heb. y[=a]shpheh. Cf. Diaper.] (Min.)
An opaque, impure variety of quartz, of red, yellow, and
other dull colors, breaking with a smooth surface. It admits
of a high polish, and is used for vases, seals, snuff boxes,
etc. When the colors are in stripes or bands, it is called
striped jasper or banded jasper. The Egyptian pebble is a
brownish yellow jasper.
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Jasper opal, a yellow variety of opal resembling jasper.
Jasper ware, a delicate kind of earthenware invented by
Josiah Wedgwood. It is usually white, but is capable of
receiving color.
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Jasperated
(gcide) | Jasperated \Jas"per*a`ted\, a.
mixed with jasper; containing particles of jasper; as,
jasperated agate.
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Jasperize
(gcide) | Jasperize \Jas"per*ize\, v. t. [Usually p. p. Jasperized (?).]
To convert into, or make to resemble, jasper.
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Polished specimens of jasperized and agatized woods.
--Pop. Sci.
Monthly.
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Jaspery
(gcide) | Jaspery \Jas"per*y\, a.
Of the nature of jasper; mixed with jasper. Jaspidean |
Porcelain jasper
(gcide) | Porcelain \Por"ce*lain\ (277), n. [F. porcelaine, It.
porcellana, orig., the porcelain shell, or Venus shell
(Cypr[ae]a porcellana), from a dim. fr. L. porcus pig,
probably from the resemblance of the shell in shape to a
pig's back. Porcelain was called after this shell, either on
account of its smoothness and whiteness, or because it was
believed to be made from it. See Pork.]
A fine translucent or semitransculent kind of earthenware,
made first in China and Japan, but now also in Europe and
America; -- called also China, or China ware.
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Porcelain, by being pure, is apt to break. --Dryden.
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Ivory porcelain, porcelain with a surface like ivory,
produced by depolishing. See Depolishing.
Porcelain clay. See under Clay.
Porcelain crab (Zool.), any crab of the genus Porcellana
and allied genera (family Porcellanid[ae]). They have a
smooth, polished carapace.
Porcelain jasper. (Min.) See Porcelanite.
Porcelain printing, the transferring of an impression of an
engraving to porcelain.
Porcelain shell (Zool.), a cowry.
[1913 Webster]Porcelanite \Por"ce*la*nite\, n. [Cf. F. porcelanite.] (Min.)
A semivitrified clay or shale, somewhat resembling jasper; --
called also porcelain jasper.
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porcelain jasper
(gcide) | Porcelain \Por"ce*lain\ (277), n. [F. porcelaine, It.
porcellana, orig., the porcelain shell, or Venus shell
(Cypr[ae]a porcellana), from a dim. fr. L. porcus pig,
probably from the resemblance of the shell in shape to a
pig's back. Porcelain was called after this shell, either on
account of its smoothness and whiteness, or because it was
believed to be made from it. See Pork.]
A fine translucent or semitransculent kind of earthenware,
made first in China and Japan, but now also in Europe and
America; -- called also China, or China ware.
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Porcelain, by being pure, is apt to break. --Dryden.
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Ivory porcelain, porcelain with a surface like ivory,
produced by depolishing. See Depolishing.
Porcelain clay. See under Clay.
Porcelain crab (Zool.), any crab of the genus Porcellana
and allied genera (family Porcellanid[ae]). They have a
smooth, polished carapace.
Porcelain jasper. (Min.) See Porcelanite.
Porcelain printing, the transferring of an impression of an
engraving to porcelain.
Porcelain shell (Zool.), a cowry.
[1913 Webster]Porcelanite \Por"ce*la*nite\, n. [Cf. F. porcelanite.] (Min.)
A semivitrified clay or shale, somewhat resembling jasper; --
called also porcelain jasper.
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Riband jasper
(gcide) | Riband \Rib"and\, n.
See Ribbon.
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Riband jasper (Min.), a variety of jasper having stripes of
different colors, as red and green.
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striped jasper
(gcide) | Jasper \Jas"per\, n. [OE. jaspre, jaspe, OF. jaspre, jaspe, F.
jaspe, L. iaspis, Gr. ?; cf. Per. yashp, yashf, Ar. yashb,
yasb, yasf, Heb. y[=a]shpheh. Cf. Diaper.] (Min.)
An opaque, impure variety of quartz, of red, yellow, and
other dull colors, breaking with a smooth surface. It admits
of a high polish, and is used for vases, seals, snuff boxes,
etc. When the colors are in stripes or bands, it is called
striped jasper or banded jasper. The Egyptian pebble is a
brownish yellow jasper.
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Jasper opal, a yellow variety of opal resembling jasper.
Jasper ware, a delicate kind of earthenware invented by
Josiah Wedgwood. It is usually white, but is capable of
receiving color.
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jasper johns
(wn) | Jasper Johns
n 1: United States artist and proponent of pop art (born in
1930) [syn: Johns, Jasper Johns] |
jaspers
(wn) | Jaspers
n 1: German psychiatrist (1883-1969) [syn: Jaspers, {Karl
Jaspers}, Karl Theodor Jaspers] |
karl jaspers
(wn) | Karl Jaspers
n 1: German psychiatrist (1883-1969) [syn: Jaspers, {Karl
Jaspers}, Karl Theodor Jaspers] |
karl theodor jaspers
(wn) | Karl Theodor Jaspers
n 1: German psychiatrist (1883-1969) [syn: Jaspers, {Karl
Jaspers}, Karl Theodor Jaspers] |
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