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Naif :: Naif (a.) Having a true natural luster without being cut; -- applied by jewelers to a precious stone.

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

Preciously :: Preciously (adv.) In a precious manner; expensively; extremely; dearly. Also used ironically.

Ruby :: Ruby (n.) A precious stone of a carmine red color, sometimes verging to violet, or intermediate between carmine and hyacinth red. It is a red crystallized variety of corundum..

Miner :: Miner (n.) One who mines; a digger for metals, etc.; one engaged in the business of getting ore, coal, or precious stones, out of the earth; one who digs military mines; as, armies have sappers and miners..

Carbuncle :: Carbuncle (n.) A charge or bearing supposed to represent the precious stone. It has eight scepters or staves radiating from a common center. Called also escarbuncle.

Plating :: Plating (n.) The art or process of covering anything with a plate or plates, or with metal, particularly of overlaying a base or dull metal with a thin plate of precious or bright metal, as by mechanical means or by electro-magnetic deposition..

Glyptography :: Glyptography (n.) The art or process of engraving on precious stones.

Dear :: Dear (superl.) Highly valued; greatly beloved; cherished; precious.

Silver :: Silver (a.) Precious; costly.

Gold :: Gold (v. t.) Figuratively, something precious or pure; as, hearts of gold..

Lapidary :: Lapidary (n.) An artificer who cuts, polishes, and engraves precious stones; hence, a dealer in precious stones..

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..

Glyptics :: Glyptics (n.) The art of engraving on precious stones.

Calcedon :: Calcedon (n.) A foul vein, like chalcedony, in some precious stones..

Test :: Test (n.) A cupel or cupelling hearth in which precious metals are melted for trial and refinement.

Jewel :: "Jewel (n.) A bearing for a pivot a pivot in a watch, formed of a crystal or precious stone, as a ruby..

Jewel :: Jewel (n.) An object regarded with special affection; a precious thing.

Precious :: Precious (a.) Of great price; costly; as, a precious stone..

Golden :: Golden (a.) Very precious; highly valuable; excellent; eminently auspicious; as, golden opinions..

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