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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

BLOOD'STONE, n. [blood and stone.] A stone, imagined, if worn as an amulet, to be a good preventive of bleeding at the nose. [See Hematite.]

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: green chalcedony with red spots that resemble blood [syn: bloodstone, heliotrope]

Merriam Webster's

noun Date: 1551 a green chalcedony sprinkled with red spots resembling blood — called also heliotrope

Oxford Reference Dictionary

n. a type of green chalcedony spotted or streaked with red, often used as a gemstone.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Bloodstone Blood"stone`, n. (Min.) (a) A green siliceous stone sprinkled with red jasper, as if with blood; hence the name; -- called also heliotrope. (b) Hematite, an ore of iron yielding a blood red powder or ``streak.''

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Hematite Hem"a*tite, n. [L. haematites, Gr. ? bloodlike, fr. a"i^ma, a"i`matos, blood.] (Min.) An important ore of iron, the sesquioxide, so called because of the red color of the powder. It occurs in splendent rhombohedral crystals, and in massive and earthy forms; -- the last called red ocher. Called also specular iron, oligist iron, rhombohedral iron ore, and bloodstone. See Brown hematite, under Brown.

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

n. 1. Hematite. 2. Heliotrope.