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Webster 1913 Edition

Emerald

Em′er-ald

,
Noun.
[OE.
emeraude
, OF.
esmeraude
,
esmeralde
, F.
émeraude
, L.
smaragdus
, fr. Gr. [GREEK]; cf. [GREEK]kr.
marakata
.]
1.
(Min.)
A precious stone of a rich green color, a variety of beryl. See
Beryl
.
2.
(Print.)
A kind of type, in size between minion and nonpare[GREEK]l. It is used by English printers.
☞ This line is printed in the type called emerald.

Em′er-ald

,
Adj.
Of a rich green color, like that of the emerald.
“Emerald meadows.”
Byron.
Emerald fish
(Zoöl.)
,
a fish of the Gulf of Mexico (
Gobionellus oceanicus
), remarkable for the brilliant green and blue color of the base of the tongue; – whence the name; – called also
esmeralda
.
–
Emerald green
,
a very durable pigment, of a vivid light green color, made from the arseniate of copper; green bice; Scheele’s green; – also used adjectively;
as,
emerald green
crystals
.
–
Emerald Isle
,
a name given to Ireland on account of the brightness of its verdure.
–
Emerald spodumene
, or
Lithia emerald
.
(Min.)
See
Hiddenite
.
–
Emerald nickel
.
(Min.)
See
Zaratite
.

Webster 1828 Edition

Emerald

EM'ERALD

,
Noun.
[L. smaragdus.] A mineral and a precious stone, whose colors are a pure, lively green, varying to a pale,yellowish, bluish, or grass green. It is always crystallized, and almost always appears in regular, hexahedral prisms, more or less perfect, and sometimes slightly modified by truncations on the edges, or on the solid angles. It is a little harder than quartz, becomes electric by friction, is often transparent, sometimes only translucent, and before the blowpipe is fusible into a whitish enamel or glass. The finest emeralds have been found in Peru.
The subspecies of emerald are the precious emerald and the beryl.

Definition 2024

Emerald

Emerald

See also: emerald

English

Proper noun

Emerald

  1. A town in Queensland, Australia.
  2. (rare) A female given name.
    • 1954 Theodore Sturgeon, The Golden Helix, in Leo Marguelis:Three Times Infinity, Fawcett Publications 1958, page 109:
      The child, a girl, was albino like April, and had exactly April's deep red eyes. Sol and Libra named her Emerald, a green name and a ground-term rather than a sky-term, as if in open expression of the slow spell worked on them all by Viridis.
    • 1978, Mary Manning, The last chronicles of Ballyfungus (page 48)
      Mrs. Emerald Walsh was helping out at the presbytery.

emerald

emerald

See also: Emerald

English

cut emeralds (beryl)

Adjective

emerald ‎(comparative more emerald, superlative most emerald)

  1. Of a rich green colour.
    • Byron
      The insect-queen of eastern spring, / O'er emerald meadows of Kashmeer / Invites the young pursuer near, / And leads him on from flower to flower / A weary chase and wasted hour.

Translations

Noun

emerald ‎(plural emeralds)

  1. Any of various green gemstones, especially a green transparent form of beryl, highly valued as a precious stone.
    • 2012 March 1, Lee A. Groat, “Gemstones”, in American Scientist, volume 100, number 2, page 128:
      Although there are dozens of different types of gems, among the best known and most important are diamond, ruby and sapphire, emerald and other gem forms of the mineral beryl, chrysoberyl, tanzanite, tsavorite, topaz and jade.
  2. Emerald green, a colour.
  3. (dated, printing, Britain) A size of type between nonpareil and minion, standardized as 6½-point.

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Etymology

From Middle English emeraude, from Old French esmeraude, from Vulgar Latin *esmaralda, *esmaraldus, variant of Latin smaragdus, from Ancient Greek σμάραγδος ‎(smáragdos), μάραγδος ‎(máragdos), from a Semitic language. Compare Hebrew בָּרֶקֶת ‎(bareket) “emerald, flashing gem”, Akkadian [script needed] ‎(barruktu, baragtu), Arabic بَرْق barq “lightning” and loanwords with Semitic etymon such as Sanskrit मरकत ‎(marakata) and Persian زمرد ‎(zomorrod) (whence Turkish zümrüt and Russian изумру́д ‎(izumrúd)).

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