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reen color, but also yellow, pink, and white. It is a silicate of aluminium and glucinum (beryllium). The aquamarine is a transparent, sea-green variety used as a gem. The emerald 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…

Like a beryl; of a light or bluish green color.

A metallic element found in the beryl. See Glucinum.

e twelve-sided pyramid; -- so called because the planes of this form occur on crystals of beryl.

A mineral, found in crystals, of a yellow to green or brown color, and consisting of aluminia and glucina. It is very hard, and is often used as a gem.

A transparent, pale green variety of beryl, used as a gem. See Beryl.

the eye of a cat. The mane is given to other gems affording like effects, esp. the chrysoberyl.

Divination by means of a crystal or other transparent body, especially a beryl.

See Chrysoberyl.

A precious stone of a rich green color, a variety of beryl. See Beryl.

A precious stone of any kind, as the ruby, emerald, topaz, sapphire, beryl, spinel, etc., especially when cut and polished for ornament; a jewel. Milton.

ys combined, usually with silica or alumina, or both; as in the minerals phenacite, chrysoberyl, beryl or emerald, euclase, and danalite. It was named from its oxide glucina, which was known long before the element was isolated. Symbol Gl. Atomic weight 9.1. Called also beryllium. [Formerly written also glucinium.]…