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Having buds; adorned with gems or jewels.

Pertaining to gems; of the nature of gems; resembling gems. Pennant.

Producing gems or buds; (Biol.)

Full of gems; bright; glittering like a gem. The gemmy bridle glittered free. Tennyson.

so, the equator. [Poetic] Bacon. From the world's girdle to the frozen pole. Cowper. That gems the starry girdle of the year. Campbell.

To place or set in a diadem, as a gem or gems.

To stud as with stars. [R.] "A golden throne instarred with gems." J. Barlow.

The gemsbok.

The oryx or gemsbok. [Written also kookaam.]

, lead, or other soft metal, used to hold a cutting or polishing powder in cutting glass, gems, and the like, or in polishing cutlery, etc. It is usually in the form of wheel or disk, which revolves on a vertical axis. Lap joint, a joint made by one layer, part, or piece, overlapping another, as in the scarfing of timb…

A virtuoso skilled in gems or precious stones; a connoisseur of lapidary work. Lapidary's lathe, mill, or wheel, a machine consisting essentially of a revolving lap on a vertical spindle, used by a lapidary for grinding and polishing.

A large antelope of North Africa (Oryx leucoryx), allied to the gemsbok.

The art of cutting and engraving gems.

usic in himself Nor is not moved with concord of sweet sounds, Is fit for treasons, stratagems, and spoils. Shak.

sessing inferior hardness, brilliancy, or beauty; -- used of inferior precious stones and gems, because those found in the Orient are generally superior.

Bright; lustrous; superior; pure; perfect; pellucid; -- used of gems and also figuratively, because the most perfect jewels are found in the East. "Pearls round and orient." Jer. Taylor. "Orient gems." Wordsworth. "Orient liquor in a crystal glass." Milton.

A genus of African antelopes which includes the gemsbok, the leucoryx, the bisa antelope (O. beisa), and the beatrix antelope (O. beatrix) of Arabia.

The gemsbok.

vitreous composition, variously colored, used in making imitations of precious stones or gems. See Strass.

ersia (later Iran); -- so called from its bearing a fully expanded peacock's tail done in gems.