Definition of diamond

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

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Table :: Table (n.) The upper flat surface of a diamond or other precious stone, the sides of which are cut in angles..
Diamond :: Diamond (n.) A pointed projection, like a four-sided pyramid, used for ornament in lines or groups..
Diamond-back :: Diamond-back (n.) The salt-marsh terrapin of the Atlantic coast (Malacoclemmys palustris).
Grozing Iron :: Grozing iron () A tool with a hardened steel point, formerly used instead of a diamond for cutting glass..
Dice :: Dice (v. i.) To ornament with squares, diamonds, or cubes..
Diamond :: Diamond (n.) A precious stone or gem excelling in brilliancy and beautiful play of prismatic colors, and remarkable for extreme hardness..
Rough :: Rough (n.) Not polished; uncut; -- said of a gem; as, a rough diamond..
Reset :: Reset (v. t.) To set again; as, to reset type; to reset copy; to reset a diamond..
Outfield :: Outfield (n.) The part of the field beyond the diamond, or infield. It is occupied by the fielders..
Transparent :: Transparent (a.) Having the property of transmitting rays of light, so that bodies can be distinctly seen through; pervious to light; diaphanous; pellucid; as, transparent glass; a transparent diamond; -- opposed to opaque..
Bort :: Bort (n.) Imperfectly crystallized or coarse diamonds, or fragments made in cutting good diamonds which are reduced to powder and used in lapidary work..
Rose :: Rose (n.) A diamond. See Rose diamond, below..
Mounting :: Mounting (n.) That by which anything is prepared for use, or set off to advantage; equipment; embellishment; setting; as, the mounting of a sword or diamond..
Boron :: Boron (n.) A nonmetallic element occurring abundantly in borax. It is reduced with difficulty to the free state, when it can be obtained in several different forms; viz., as a substance of a deep olive color, in a semimetallic form, and in colorless quadratic crystals similar to the diamond in hardness and other properties. It occurs in nature also in boracite, datolite, tourmaline, and some other minerals. Atomic weight 10.9. Symbol B..
Brait :: Brait (n.) A rough diamond.
Diamond :: Diamond (a.) Resembling a diamond; made of, or abounding in, diamonds; as, a diamond chain; a diamond field..
Diamond :: Diamond (n.) A geometrical figure, consisting of four equal straight lines, and having two of the interior angles acute and two obtuse; a rhombus; a lozenge..
Field :: Field (n.) That part of the grounds reserved for the players which is outside of the diamond; -- called also outfield.
Skive :: Skive (n.) The iron lap used by diamond polishers in finishing the facets of the gem.
Crown :: Crown (n.) The upper range of facets in a rose diamond.
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