Word Finder - gems

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A precious stone, usually of substantial monetary value or prized for its beauty or shine.

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Any precious or highly valued thing or person.

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She's an absolute gem.

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Anything of small size, or expressed within brief limits, which is regarded as a gem on account of its beauty or value, such as a small picture, a verse of poetry, or an epigram.

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a gem of wit

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A gemma or leaf-bud.

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A type of geometrid moth, Orthonama obstipata.

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A package containing programs or libraries for the Ruby programming language.

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A size of type between brilliant (4-point) and diamond (4½-point), running 222 lines to the foot.

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To adorn with, or as if with, gems.

More gems swirled in the lake, seemingly at random.

The green gems reflected the sunshine, shimmering through the clear water.

You'd have thought they were rare gems, not just plastic baubles costing pennies at most.

The glowing green gems on the bottom were souls the demons had extracted.

This man rode toward Balashev at a gallop, his plumes flowing and his gems and gold lace glittering in the bright June sunshine.

Ujjain, known as Avanti in the Buddhist period and as Ozene to the Greeks, is one of the seven sacred cities of the Hindus and the traditional capital of King Vikramaditya, at whose court the "nine gems" of Sanskirt literature are said to have flourished.

The green gems were caught in some sort of invisible current that ended when it reached the bank.

The bottom of the lake was lined with green gems, the source of the strange light.

Some of the gems had been carried by gentle waves to the edges of the lake and deposited away from the bulk of the jewels.

Her eyes do look like green gems.

The best of the New South Wales diamonds are harder and much whiter than the South African diamonds, and are classified as on a par with the best Brazilian gems, but no large specimens have yet been found.

He is celebrated as a collector of paintings, books, gems and sculptures, his "Arundel marbles" being given by his grandson in 1667 to the University of Oxford.

In this connexion the name Abraxas and the Abraxas gems must be remembered.

Representations of ships are not common, but several have been observed on Aegean gems, gem-sealings and vases.

The engraved gems probably record divine or human names.

He clenched the pouch with its gems.

He turned, and she stopped.  With the tip of one dagger, he tugged a necklace free from the shirt hiding it.  On it was two small green gems.

The earrings were beautiful, though diamonds weren't her number one choice of gems.

The margin of this supposed footprint is ornamented with gems, and a wooden canopy protects it from the weather.

Orseolo, and was enlarged and enriched with gems and modified in form, first by a Greek artificer in 1105, and then by Venetians between 1209 and 1345.

It contains 1300 great pearls, 400 garnets, 90 amethysts, 300 sapphires, 300 emeralds, 15 rubies, 75 balas rubies, 4 topazes, 2 cameos; the gems, except where they have been replaced, are cut en cabochon.

The position of the sacred stone, and the interpretation of many details shown on the gems and coins, remain uncertain.

By the ancient Greeks and Romans obsidian was worked as a gem-stone; and in consequence of its having been often imitated in glass there arose among collectors of gems in the 18th century the practice of calling all antique pastes "obsidians."

The classical name of Ava is Yadanapura, "the city of precious gems."

Some of these objects are in the museum at Cagliari, others in private collections, and many scarabs are in she British Museum, all of which by the coins found with them are dated later than the Roman occupation (Catalogue of Gems, London, 1888,1888, pp. 13 sqq.).

With all of that diamond experience and history it is no wonder that Antwerp gems are synonymous with quality and beauty.

The gems of onyx, carnelian and agate are later and bear various figures, and in some cases Arabic inscriptions.

For the weighing of gold, gems, opium, &c., the fuang, equal to s tical, and the salung, equal to 4 tical, are used.

The pagodas at Chidambaram are the oldest in the south of India, and portions of them are gems of art.

He also appears in many other groups, with Aphrodite, in marble and on engraved gems of Roman times.

His flight on the shoulders of Aeneas is frequently represented on engraved gems of the Roman period; and his visit from Aphrodite is rendered in a beautiful bronze relief, engraved in Millingen's Unedited Gems.

Her meeting with Poseidon at the spring is frequently represented on ancient coins and gems.

Textiles, and boots and shoes represented ' Gems are not sought for systematically in New Hampshire.

The sapphire occurs also in Europe, being found in the Iserweise of Bohemia and in the basalt of the Rhine valley and of Le-Puy-en-Velay in France, but the European stones have no interest as gems.

But the last-mentioned type varies greatly, from rude and almost plain disks of bronze to magnificent gold specimens studded with gems. No.

Besides busts and figurines, which belong as a rule to the Greek period, the smaller objects usually found are earthen pitchers and lamps, glass-wares, tesserae and gems. Of buildings which can be called architectural few specimens now exist on Phoenician soil, for the reason that for ages the inhabitants have used the ruins as convenient quarries.

When William of Malmesbury describes the knighting of Athelstan by his grandfather Alfred the Great, that is, his investiture " with a purple garment set with gems and a Saxon sword with a golden sheath," there is no hint of any religious observance.

These consist of reliefs in gold and silver enriched with enamel and gems, and are the work of one Vuolfvinus, a German.

Note that in Turkish su means both " water " and " the lustre of a jewel," while in English we speak of " gems of the first water."

At the present day they vie with precious gems and gold as ornaments and garniture for wealth and fashion; but by their abundance, and the cheapness of some varieties, they have recently come within the reach of men of moderate incomes.

A number of statues, busts, gems and coins represented Antinoos as the ideal type of youthful beauty, often with the attributes of some special god.

Phene Spiers, Architecture East and West, p. 245 f.), but it is certain that the engraved gems for which there was a demand in the Persian empire were largely the work of Greek artists (Furtwangler, Antike iii.

It is significant that whereas the earlier Greeks had used precious stones only as a medium for the engraver's art, unengraven gems, valuable for their mere material, now came to be used in profusion for adornment.

In the case of small objects like gems the place of manufacture may be far from the place of discovery.

For gems see " Gobineau " in the Rev. arche'ol., vols.

He began to lecture on Homer and the Epistle to Titus, and in connexion with the former he announced that, like Solomon, he sought Tyrian brass and gems for the adornment of God's Temple.

This consisted of bronze swords and vases, gold jewellery with agate and other gems, bracelets, collars, a seal cylinder and two engraved gold rings, one of which, the largest known, bears a religious scene.

Especially noteworthy are numbers of engraved gems in Graeco-Persian (no doubt Lydian) style.

The little book, a garland of fifty of these gems, has been translated by General Strong.

Lippert to prepare the Latin text of the third volume of his Dactyliotheca (an account of a collection of gems).