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

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..

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

Infield :: Infield (n.) The diamond; -- opposed to outfield. See Diamond, n., 5..

Drop :: Drop (n.) That which resembles, or that which hangs like, a liquid drop; as a hanging diamond ornament, an earring, a glass pendant on a chandelier, a sugarplum (sometimes medicated), or a kind of shot or slug..

Diamonded :: Diamonded (a.) Adorned with diamonds; diamondized.

Diamantiferous :: Diamantiferous (a.) Yielding diamonds.

Diamond :: Diamond (n.) The infield; the square space, 90 feet on a side, having the bases at its angles..

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 (n.) The smallest kind of type in English printing, except that called brilliant, which is seldom seen..

Rose-cut :: Rose-cut (a.) Cut flat on the reverse, and with a convex face formed of triangular facets in rows; -- said of diamonds and other precious stones. See Rose diamond, under Rose. Cf. Brilliant, n..

Facet :: Facet (n.) A little face; a small, plane surface; as, the facets of a diamond..

Diamond :: Diamond (n.) A pointed projection, like a four-sided pyramid, used for ornament in lines or groups..

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

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

Skive :: Skive (n.) The iron lap used by diamond polishers in finishing the facets of the gem.

Brilliant :: Brilliant (a.) A diamond or other gem of the finest cut, formed into faces and facets, so as to reflect and refract the light, by which it is rendered more brilliant. It has at the middle, or top, a principal face, called the table, which is surrounded by a number of sloping facets forming a bizet; below, it has a small face or collet, parallel to the table, connected with the girdle by a pavilion of elongated facets. It is thus distinguished from the rose diamond, which is entirely covered with

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

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..

Turbot :: Turbot (n.) Any one of numerous species of flounders more or less related to the true turbots, as the American plaice, or summer flounder (see Flounder), the halibut, and the diamond flounder (Hypsopsetta guttulata) of California..

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