Definition of diamond

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

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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..
Skive :: Skive (n.) The iron lap used by diamond polishers in finishing the facets of the gem.
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..
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..
Culasse :: Culasse (n.) The lower faceted portion of a brilliant-cut diamond.
Sparkle :: Sparkle (n.) Brilliancy; luster; as, the sparkle of a diamond..
Reset :: Reset (v. t.) To set again; as, to reset type; to reset copy; to reset a diamond..
Adamantine :: Adamantine (a.) Like the diamond in hardness or luster.
Table :: Table (n.) The upper flat surface of a diamond or other precious stone, the sides of which are cut in angles..
Quarrel :: Quarrel (n.) A glazier's diamond.
Diamond-shaped :: Diamond-shaped (a.) Shaped like a diamond or rhombus.
King :: King (n.) A playing card having the picture of a king; as, the king of diamonds..
Itacolumite :: Itacolumite (n.) A laminated, granular, siliceous rocks, often occurring in regions where the diamond is found..
Mount :: Mount (v. t.) Hence: To put upon anything that sustains and fits for use, as a gun on a carriage, a map or picture on cloth or paper; to prepare for being worn or otherwise used, as a diamond by setting, or a sword blade by adding the hilt, scabbard, etc..
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..
Crown :: Crown (n.) The upper range of facets in a rose diamond.
Rose :: Rose (n.) A diamond. See Rose diamond, below..
Field :: Field (n.) That part of the grounds reserved for the players which is outside of the diamond; -- called also outfield.
Dice :: Dice (v. i.) To ornament with squares, diamonds, or cubes..
Solitaire :: Solitaire (n.) A single diamond in a setting; also, sometimes, a precious stone of any kind set alone..
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