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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..

Cleavage :: Cleavage (n.) The quality possessed by many crystallized substances of splitting readily in one or more definite directions, in which the cohesive attraction is a minimum, affording more or less smooth surfaces; the direction of the dividing plane; a fragment obtained by cleaving, as of a diamond. See Parting..

Diamond :: Diamond (a.) Resembling a diamond; made of, or abounding in, diamonds; as, a diamond chain; a diamond field..

Bulse :: Bulse (n.) A purse or bag in which to carry or measure diamonds, etc..

Diamond-back :: Diamond-back (n.) The salt-marsh terrapin of the Atlantic coast (Malacoclemmys palustris).

Forty-spot :: Forty-spot (n.) The Tasmanian forty-spotted diamond bird (Pardalotus quadragintus).

Pane :: Pane (n.) One of the eight facets surrounding the table of a brilliant cut diamond.

Adamantine :: Adamantine (a.) Like the diamond in hardness or luster.

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..

Diamonded :: Diamonded (a.) Having figures like a diamond or lozenge.

Adamant :: Adamant (n.) A stone imagined by some to be of impenetrable hardness; a name given to the diamond and other substances of extreme hardness; but in modern mineralogy it has no technical signification. It is now a rhetorical or poetical name for the embodiment of impenetrable hardness.

Emeril :: Emeril (n.) A glazier's diamond.

Dice :: Dice (v. i.) To ornament with squares, diamonds, or cubes..

Rattlesnake :: Rattlesnake (n.) Any one of several species of venomous American snakes belonging to the genera Crotalus and Caudisona, or Sistrurus. They have a series of horny interlocking joints at the end of the tail which make a sharp rattling sound when shaken. The common rattlesnake of the Northern United States (Crotalus horridus), and the diamond rattlesnake of the South (C. adamanteus), are the best known. See Illust. of Fang..

Reset :: Reset (v. t.) To set again; as, to reset type; to reset copy; to reset a diamond..

Bizet :: Bizet (n.) The upper faceted portion of a brilliant-cut diamond, which projects from the setting and occupies the zone between the girdle and the table. See Brilliant, n..

Ace :: Ace (n.) A unit; a single point or spot on a card or die; the card or die so marked; as, the ace of diamonds..

Facet :: Facet (v. t.) To cut facets or small faces upon; as, to facet a diamond..

Doop :: Doop (n.) A little copper cup in which a diamond is held while being cut.

King :: King (n.) A playing card having the picture of a king; as, the king of diamonds..

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