Definition of diamond

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Diamond (n.) A precious stone or gem excelling in brilliancy and beautiful play of prismatic colors, and remarkable for extreme hardness..

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Diamond-shaped :: Diamond-shaped (a.) Shaped like a diamond or rhombus.
Skive :: Skive (n.) The iron lap used by diamond polishers in finishing the facets of the gem.
Dice :: Dice (v. i.) To ornament with squares, diamonds, or cubes..
Pane :: Pane (n.) One of the eight facets surrounding the table of a brilliant cut diamond.
Carbon :: Carbon (n.) An elementary substance, not metallic in its nature, which is present in all organic compounds. Atomic weight 11.97. Symbol C. it is combustible, and forms the base of lampblack and charcoal, and enters largely into mineral coals. In its pure crystallized state it constitutes the diamond, the hardest of known substances, occuring in monometric crystals like the octahedron, etc. Another modification is graphite, or blacklead, and in this it is soft, and occurs in hexagonal prisms or t
Diamond :: Diamond (n.) A precious stone or gem excelling in brilliancy and beautiful play of prismatic colors, and remarkable for extreme hardness..
Brait :: Brait (n.) A rough diamond.
Ace :: Ace (n.) A unit; a single point or spot on a card or die; the card or die so marked; as, the ace of diamonds..
Doop :: Doop (n.) A little copper cup in which a diamond is held while being cut.
Outfield :: Outfield (n.) The part of the field beyond the diamond, or infield. It is occupied by the fielders..
Water :: Water (n.) The limpidity and luster of a precious stone, especially a diamond; as, a diamond of the first water, that is, perfectly pure and transparent. Hence, of the first water, that is, of the first excellence..
Rough :: Rough (n.) Not polished; uncut; -- said of a gem; as, a rough diamond..
Cleavage :: Cleavage (n.) The quality possessed by many crystallized substances of splitting readily in one or more definite directions, in which the cohesive attraction is a minimum, affording more or less smooth surfaces; the direction of the dividing plane; a fragment obtained by cleaving, as of a diamond. See Parting..
Facet :: Facet (n.) A little face; a small, plane surface; as, the facets of a diamond..
Turbot :: Turbot (n.) Any one of numerous species of flounders more or less related to the true turbots, as the American plaice, or summer flounder (see Flounder), the halibut, and the diamond flounder (Hypsopsetta guttulata) of California..
Diamonded :: Diamonded (a.) Adorned with diamonds; diamondized.
Surface :: Surface (n.) The exterior part of anything that has length and breadth; one of the limits that bound a solid, esp. the upper face; superficies; the outside; as, the surface of the earth; the surface of a diamond; the surface of the body..
Carbonado :: Carbonado (n.) A black variety of diamond, found in Brazil, and used for diamond drills. It occurs in irregular or rounded fragments, rarely distinctly crystallized, with a texture varying from compact to porous..
Culasse :: Culasse (n.) The lower faceted portion of a brilliant-cut diamond.
Bort :: Bort (n.) Imperfectly crystallized or coarse diamonds, or fragments made in cutting good diamonds which are reduced to powder and used in lapidary work..
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