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One of a suit of playing cards, stamped with the figure of a diamond.

One celebrated upon the completion of sixty, or, according to some, seventy-five, years from the beginning of the thing commemorated.

Delaware; -- a nickname alluding to its small size.

The salt-marsh terrapin of the Atlantic coast (Malacoclemmys palustris).

Shaped like a diamond or rhombus.

Having figures like a diamond or lozenge.

To set with diamonds; to adorn; to enrich. [R.] Diamondizing of your subject. B. Jonson.

A famous diamond of fine quality, which weighs about 137 carats and is among the state jewels of France. It is so called from the Duke of Orleans, Regent of France, to whom it was sold in 1717 by Pitt the English Governor of Madras (whence also called the Pitt diamond), who bought it of an Indian merchant in 1701.…

unit; a single point or spot on a card or die; the card or die so marked; as, the ace of diamonds.

A stone imagined by some to be of impenetrable hardness; a name given to the diamond and other substance of extreme hardness; but in modern minerology it has no technical signification. It is now a rhetorical or poetical name for the embodiment of impenetrable hardness. Opposed the rocky orb Of tenfold adamant, his amp…

Like the diamond in hardness or luster.

six taken by the successful bidder is as follows: when the trump is spades, 2; clubs, 6; diamonds, 7; hearts, 8; royal spades (lilies), 9; and when the deal is played with no trump, 10.

The upper faceted portion of a brilliant-cut diamond, which projects from the setting and occupies the zone between the girdle and the table. See Brilliant, n.

p olive color, in a semimetallic form, and in colorless quadratic crystals similar to the diamond in hardness and other properties. It occurs in nature also in boracite, datolite, tourmaline, and some other minerals. Atomic weight 10.9. Symbol B.

Imperfectly crystallized or coarse diamonds, or fragments made in cutting good diamonds which are reduced to powder and used in lapidary work.

A rough diamond.

A diamond or other gem of the finest cut, formed into faces and facets, so as to reflect and refract the light, by which it is rendered nore brilliant. It has at the middle, or top, a principal face, called the table, which is surrounded by a number of sloping facets forming a bizet; below, it has a small face or colle…

An oval or pearshaped diamond having its entire surface cut in triangular facets.

ar Bristol, and used in making ornaments, vases, etc. When polished, it is called Bristol diamond.

A purse or bag in which to carry or measure diamonds, etc. [India] Macaulay.