Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A transparent to translucent glassy mineral, essentially aluminum beryllium silicate, Be3Al2Si6O18, occurring in hexagonal prisms and constituting the chief source of beryllium. Transparent varieties in white, green, blue, yellow, or pink are valued as gems.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A colorless, bluish, pinkish, yellow, or more commonly green mineral, occurring in hexagonal prisms.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Min.) A mineral of great hardness, and, when transparent, of much beauty. It occurs in hexagonal prisms, commonly of a green or bluish green color, but also yellow, pink, and white. It is a silicate of aluminum and beryllium. The
aquamarine is a transparent, sea-green variety used as a gem. Theemerald is another variety highly prized in jewelry, and distinguished by its deep color, which is probably due to the presence of a little oxide of chromium.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun uncountable, mineralogy A
mineral ofpegmatite deposits, often used as agemstone . - noun countable An example of the mineral beryl.
- noun uncountable A dull blue colour.
- adjective Of a dull blue colour.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the chief source of beryllium; colored transparent varieties are valued as gems
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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All attempts to melt real emerald or beryl have yielded only a _beryl glass_, softer and lighter than true emerald, and not _crystalline_, but rather glassy in structure.
A Text-Book of Precious Stones for Jewelers and the Gem-Loving Public Frank Bertram Wade
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Yellow beryl may be called _golden beryl_, or it may be called
A Text-Book of Precious Stones for Jewelers and the Gem-Loving Public Frank Bertram Wade
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By tarshish the modern yellow topaz is probably intended, while in (Revelation 21: 20) a different stone is perhaps referred to, probably the mineral now called beryl, which is identical with the emerald except in color, being a light green or bluish-green.
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The hands bent in are compared to beautiful rings, in which beryl is set, as the nails are in the fingers.
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Their appearance and their work are said to be like the colour of a beryl (v. 16), the colour of Tarshish (so the word is), that is, of the sea; the beryl is of that colour, sea-green; blue Neptune we call it.
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume IV (Isaiah to Malachi) 1721
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We login via ssh to beryl, which is the Unix system on which we work when posting, the same one that you FTPed the file to, unzip the file and glance at the top of it.
The Project Gutenberg FAQ 2002 Jim Tinsley
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The beryl is a compound of silicates of beryllia and alumina, with the formula 3BeOSiO_ {2} + Al_ {2} O_ {3} ,3SiO_ {2}, or
The Chemistry, Properties and Tests of Precious Stones John Mastin
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The beryl is a stone composed of silica, alumina, and glucina.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 14: Simony-Tournon 1840-1916 1913
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Once upon a time, the jewel called beryl was thought unrivaled as a mirror into which a magician might look to see reflected events taking place at a distance, or reflections of the future.
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We may conclude this review by noticing, among stones of less consequence produced within the Empire, jet, which was so called from being found at the mouth of the river Gagis in Lycia, garnets, which are common in Armenia, and beryl, which is a product of the same country.
bilby commented on the word beryl
Long he watched the wonders, ringed with lovely perils,
Watched the apples gleam
In the sleepy thunders on the beryls,
Then he breathed his dream:
“Bloody lands and flaming seas and cloudy slaughter,
Hateful fogs unfurled,
Steely horror, shaming sky and water,
These have wreathed the world.
- Ridgely Torrence, 'The Apples'.
September 23, 2009