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

Rich :: Rich (superl.) Composed of valuable or costly materials or ingredients; procured at great outlay; highly valued; precious; sumptuous; costly; as, a rich dress; rich silk or fur; rich presents..

Jeweler :: "Jeweler (n.) One who makes, or deals in, jewels, precious stones, and similar ornaments..

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

Toadstone :: Toadstone (n.) Bufonite, formerly regarded as a precious stone, and worn as a jewel. See Bufonite..

Sardel :: Sardel (n.) A precious stone. See Sardius.

Breastplate :: Breastplate (n.) A part of the vestment of the high priest, worn upon the front of the ephod. It was a double piece of richly embroidered stuff, a span square, set with twelve precious stones, on which were engraved the names of the twelve tribes of Israel. See Ephod..

Battery :: Battery (v. t.) A series of stamps operated by one motive power, for crushing ores containing the precious metals..

Cupel :: Cupel (n.) A shallow porous cup, used in refining precious metals, commonly made of bone ashes (phosphate of lime)..

Alchemy :: Alchemy (n.) Miraculous power of transmuting something common into something precious.

Table :: Table (n.) The upper flat surface of a diamond or other precious stone, the sides of which are cut in angles..

Prospector :: Prospector (n.) One who prospects; especially, one who explores a region for minerals and precious metals..

Mine :: Mine (v. i.) Any place where ore, metals, or precious stones are got by digging or washing the soil; as, a placer mine..

Sardius :: Sardius (n.) A precious stone, probably a carnelian, one of which was set in Aaron's breastplate..

Amalgamator :: Amalgamator (n.) One who, or that which, amalgamates. Specifically: A machine for separating precious metals from earthy particles by bringing them in contact with a body of mercury with which they form an amalgam..

Sweepage :: Sweep (n.) The sweeping of workshops where precious metals are worked, containing filings, etc..

Jewel :: Jewel (n.) A precious stone; a gem.

Bdellium :: Bdellium (n.) An unidentified substance mentioned in the Bible (Gen. ii. 12, and Num. xi. 7), variously taken to be a gum, a precious stone, or pearls, or perhaps a kind of amber found in Arabia..

Stone :: Stone (n.) A precious stone; a gem.

Sweepy :: Sweepwasher (n.) One who extracts the residuum of precious metals from the sweepings, potsherds, etc., of refineries of gold and silver, or places where these metals are used..

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