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Bleached yarn in making the linen tape called inkle; unwrought inkle. Knight.

and various colors, as red, green, blue, brown, and black, the red variety being the gem spinel ruby. It consist essentially of alumina and magnesia, but commonly contains iron and sometimes also chromium.

Having no spine.

A kind of ruby. See Spinel.

of fishes having some of the rays of the dorsal, ventral, and anal fins unarticulated and spinelike, as the perch.

Having fins in which the rays are hard and spinelike; spiny- finned.

Spineless, as certain fishes.

Having a slender, sharp, or spinelike tip.

A variety of spinel ruby, of a pale rose red, or inclining to orange. See Spinel.

A variety of spinel, of a dark color, found at Candy, in Ceylon.

The name belongs for the most part to ruby sapphire, though it has been also given to red spinel and garnet.

A dingy blue, or grayish black, variety of spinel. It is also called pleonaste. [Written also ceylonite.]

A variety of the zinc spinel or gahnite.

A kind of mineral of the spinel group.

Zinc spinel; automolite.

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.

n igneous rock consisting largely of chrysolite, with pyroxene and picotite (a variety of spinel containing chromium).

A black variety of spinel.

The anterior, often spinelike, prolongation of the carapace of a crustacean, as in the lobster and the prawn.

One of the spinelike feathers at the base of the bill of certain birds.