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Having the surface decorated with cloudings and streaks, somewhat as if imitating jasper.

snuff boxes, etc. When the colors are in stripes or bands, it is called striped or banded jasper. The Egyptian pebble is a brownish yellow jasper. Jasper opal, a yellow variety of opal resembling jasper. -- Jasper ware, a delicate kind of earthenware invented by Josiah Wedgwood. It is usually white, but is capable of…

mixed with jasper; containing particles of jasper; as, jasperated agate.

To convert into, or make to resemble, jasper. Polished specimens of jasperized and agatized woods. Pop. Sci. Monthly.

Of the nature of jasper; mixed with jasper.

Lydian stone, or black jasper, a variety of siliceous or flinty slate, of a grayish or bluish black color. It is employed to test the purity of gold, the amount of alloy being indicated by the color left on the stone when rubbed by the metal.

A green siliceous stone sprinkled with red jasper, as if with blood; hence the name; -- called also heliotrope.

bove. -- Diving dress. See Submarine armor, under Submarine. -- Diving stone, a kind of jasper.

ears, knives, wedges, etc., which were commonly made of flint, but also of granite, jade, jasper, and other hard stones. -- Flint mill. (a) (Pottery) A mill in which flints are ground. (b) (Mining) An obsolete appliance for lighting the miner at his work, in which flints on a revolving wheel were made to produce a sho…

A species of agate, sprinkled with spots of red jasper.

Jasper. [Obs.] Spenser.

Agate jasper. [Obs.]

Consisting of jasper, or containing jasper; jaspery; jasperlike.

A compact siliceous rock resembling jasper.

Resembling jasper. [R.]

An onyx, part or all of whose layers consist of jasper.

allied genera (family Porcellanidæ). They have a smooth, polished carapace. -- Porcelain jasper. (Min.) See Porcelanite. -- Porcelain printing, the transferring of an impression of an engraving to porcelain. -- Porcelain shell (Zoöl.), a cowry.

A semivitrified clay or shale, somewhat resembling jasper; -- called also porcelain jasper.

See Ribbon. Riband jasper (Min.), a variety of jasper having stripes of different colors, as red and green.

of a hawk, upon the wingless body of a lion. The awful ruins of the days of old . . . Or jasper tomb, or mutilated sphinx. Shelley.