sardius
71calcedony — noun a milky or greyish translucent to transparent quartz • Syn: ↑chalcedony • Hypernyms: ↑quartz, ↑transparent gem • Hyponyms: ↑agate, ↑bloodstone, ↑heliotro …
72sard — n. a yellow or orange red cornelian. Etymology: ME f. F sarde or L sarda = LL sardius f. Gk sardios prob. f. Sardo Sardinia …
73sar|di|us — «SAHR dee uhs», noun. 1. = sard. (Cf. ↑sard) 2. (in the Bible) one of the precious stones in the breastplate of the Jewish high priest, thought to have been a ruby. ╂[< Late Latin (lapis) sardius, for Greek (líthos) sárdios (stone) of Sardis,… …
74sar|do|nyx — «SAHR duh nihks», noun. variety of onyx containing layers of sard: »The engraved carnelian and sardonyx rings that fashionable Greeks wore on their toes…had swivel mountings, so that the center was reversible (New Yorker). ╂[< Latin sardonyx… …
75sardeos — sardeos, sardeyn see sardius, sardine n.2 …
76sardeyn — sardeos, sardeyn see sardius, sardine n.2 …
77sardye — anglicized form of sardius …
