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The chamois.

An organ stop with conical tin pipes.

A South African antelope (Oryx Capensis), having long, sharp, nearly straight horns.

A mystical word used as a charm and engraved on gems among the ancients; also, a gem stone thus engraved.

A plume or tuft for the head composed of feathers, or of gems, etc. Prescott.

odified by human skill and labor, in opposition to natural; as, artificial heat or light, gems, salts, minerals, fountains, flowers. Artificial strife Lives in these touches, livelier than life. Shak.

To adorn with gems, or as with gems. Begemmed with dewdrops. Sir W. Scott. Those lonely realms bright garden isles begem. Shelley.

savage; bloody; inhuman; fell. "The victim of a butcherly murder." D. Webster. What stratagems, how fell, how butcherly, This deadly quarrel daily doth beget! Shak.

An instrument with a graduated disk by means of which the angles of gems are measured in the process of cutting and polishing.

ts carouse the sparkling tears of the rich grape. Denham. Egypt's wanton queen, Carousing gems, herself dissolved in love. Young.

ing opalescent reflections from within, like the eye of a cat. The mane is given to other gems affording like effects, esp. the chrysoberyl.

rmly united, as the particles of solid bodies; firm; close; solid; dense. Glass, crystal, gems, and other compact bodies. Sir I. Newton.

An engraver of gems for rings and other ornaments.

The art of writing or engraving upon gems.

to blazon, or emblazon. [Archaic] The imperial ensign, . . . streaming to the wind, With gems and golden luster rich emblazed. Milton.

duty during that time. -- First water, the highest quality or purest luster; -- said of gems, especially of diamond and pearls.

ly dressed. Why is my neighbor's wife so gay Chaucer. A bevy of fair women, richly gay In gems and wanton dressMilton.

To adorn with gems or precious stones.

Of or pertaining to gems or to gemmæ; of the nature of, or resembling, gems or gemmæ.

Of or pertaining to gems.