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Webster 1913 Edition


Bloodstone

Blood′stoneˊ

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Noun.
(Min.)
(a)
A green siliceous stone sprinkled with red jasper, as if with blood; hence the name; – called also
heliotrope
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(b)
Hematite, an ore of iron yielding a blood red powder or “streak.”

Webster 1828 Edition


Bloodstone

BLOOD'STONE

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Noun.
[blood and stone.] A stone, imagined, if worn as an amulet, to be a good preventive of bleeding at the nose. [See Hematite.]