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to imitate coral, tortoise shell, amber, malachite, etc. It is used in the manufacture of jewelry and many small articles, as combs, brushes, collars, and cuffs; -- originaly called xylonite.

y of chalcedony, colored by nickel. It has a dull flinty luster, and is sometimes used in jewelry.

stone (Min.), a variety of garnet, of a cinnamon or hyacinth red color, sometimes used in jewelry. -- Oil of cinnamon, a colorless aromatic oil obtained from cinnamon and cassia, and consisting essentially of cinnamic aldehyde, C6H5.C2H2.CHO. -- Wild cinnamon. See Canella.

table at the base of a brilliant. See Illust. of Brilliant. How full the collet with his jewel is! Cowley.

to some property or quality, which is common to them both; e.g., the lake sparkled like a jewel.

xibly pursues those measures which appear the most just. Addison. Consistency, thou art a jewel. Popular Saying.

ers penetrating quartz are changed to oxide of iron, is the yellow brown tiger-eye of the jewelers.

Crown glass. See under Glass. -- Crown imperial. (Bot.) See in the Vocabulary. -- Crown jewels, the jewels appertaining to the sovereign while wearing the crown. [Eng.] "She pawned and set to sale the crown jewels." Milton. -- Crown land, land belonging to the crown, that is, to the sovereign. -- Crown law, the law…

ind with moral beauties; to decorate a hero with honors. Her fat neck was ornamented with jewels, rich bracelets decorated her arms. Thackeray.

A peddler or hawker, especially of cheap, flashy articles, as sham jewelry; hence, a sham or cheat. [Slang, Eng.] Halliwell.

excellent; giving rare satisfaction; as, exquisite workmanship. Plate of rare device, and jewels Of reach and exquisite form. Shak. I have no exquisite reason for 't, but I have reason good enough. Shak.

in distinction from a natural, standard or rule; not natural; as, factitious cinnabar or jewels; a factitious taste. -- Fac-ti"tious*ly, adv. -- Fac*ti"tious-ness, n. He acquires a factitious propensity, he forms an incorrigible habit, of desultory reading. De Quincey.

o deceive; counterfeit; hypocritical; as, false tears; false modesty; false colors; false jewelry. False face must hide what the false heart doth know. Shak.

The proportion of pure silver or gold in jewelry, bullion, or coins.

Ornament; decoration; especially, excecially decoration; showy clothes; jewels. Her mistress' cast-off finery. F. W. Robertson.

Showy, but counterfeit; cheap, pretentious, and vulgar; as, flash jewelry; flash finery.

ished, and afterwards coated with transparent colors mixed with isinglass; -- employed by jewelers to give color or brilliancy to pastes and inferior stones. Ure.

d, topaz, sapphire, beryl, spinel, etc., especially when cut and polished for ornament; a jewel. Milton.

A receptacle for jewels or gems; a jewel house; jewels or gems, collectively.

Having buds; adorned with gems or jewels.