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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

EM'ERALD, n. [L. smaragdus.] A mineral and a precious stone, whose colors are a pure, lively green, varying to a pale,yellowish, bluish, or grass green. It is always crystallized, and almost always appears in regular, hexahedral prisms, more or less perfect, and sometimes slightly modified by truncations on the edges, or on the solid angles. It is a little harder than quartz, becomes electric by friction, is often transparent, sometimes only translucent, and before the blowpipe is fusible into a whitish enamel or glass. The finest emeralds have been found in Peru.
The subspecies of emerald are the precious emerald and the beryl.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: a green transparent form of beryl; highly valued as a gemstone
2: a transparent piece of emerald that has been cut and polished and is valued as a precious gem
3: the green color of an emerald

Merriam Webster's

I. noun Etymology: Middle English emerallde, from Anglo-French esmeralde, from Vulgar Latin *smaralda, from Latin smaragdus, from Greek smaragdos Date: 14th century 1. a rich green variety of beryl prized as a gemstone 2. any of various green gemstones (as synthetic corundum or demantoid) II. adjective Date: 1508 brightly or richly green

Oxford Reference Dictionary

n. 1 a bright-green precious stone, a variety of beryl. 2 (also emerald green) the colour of this. Phrases and idioms: Emerald Isle literary Ireland. Derivatives: emeraldine adj. Etymology: ME f. OF emeraude, esm-, ult. f. Gk smaragdos

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Emerald Em"er*ald, n. [OE. emeraude, OF. esmeraude, esmeralde, F. ['e]meraude, L. smaragdus, fr. Gr. ?; cf. ?kr. marakata.] 1. (Min.) A precious stone of a rich green color, a variety of beryl. See Beryl. 2. (Print.) A kind of type, in size between minion and nonpare?l. It is used by English printers. Note: [hand] This line is printed in the type called emerald.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Emerald Em"er*ald, a. Of a rich green color, like that of the emerald. ``Emerald meadows.'' --Byron. Emerald fish (Zo["o]l.), a fish of the Gulf of Mexico (Gobionellus oceanicus), remarkable for the brilliant green and blue color of the base of the tongue; -- whence the name; -- called also esmeralda. Emerald green, a very durable pigment, of a vivid light green color, made from the arseniate of copper; green bice; Scheele's green; -- also used adjectively; as, emerald green crystals. Emerald Isle, a name given to Ireland on account of the brightness of its verdure. Emerald spodumene, or Lithia emerald. (Min.) See Hiddenite. Emerald nickel. (Min.) See Zaratite.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Beryl Ber"yl (b[e^]r"[i^]l), n. [F. b['e]ryl, OF. beril, L. beryllus, Gr. bh`ryllos, prob. fr. Skr. vai[dsdot][=u]rya. Cf. Brilliant.] (Min.) A mineral of great hardness, and, when transparent, of much beauty. It occurs in hexagonal prisms, commonly of a green or bluish green color, but also yellow, pink, and white. It is a silicate of aluminium and glucinum (beryllium). The aquamarine is a transparent, sea-green variety used as a gem. The emerald is another variety highly prized in jewelry, and distinguished by its deep color, which is probably due to the presence of a little oxide of chromium.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(emeralds) 1. An emerald is a precious stone which is clear and bright green. N-COUNT 2. Something that is emerald is bright green in colour. ...an emerald valley. COLOUR

Easton's Bible Dictionary

Heb. nophek (Ex. 28:18; 39:11); i.e., the "glowing stone", probably the carbuncle, a precious stone in the breastplate of the high priest. It is mentioned (Rev. 21:19) as one of the foundations of the New Jerusalem. The name given to this stone in the New Testament Greek is smaragdos, which means "live coal."

International Standard Bible Encyclopedia

em'-er-ald.

See STONES, PRECIOUS.

Moby Thesaurus

adamant, aestival, agate, alexandrite, amethyst, aquamarine, beryl, beryl-green, berylline, bloodstone, blue-green, bluish-green, brilliant, carbuncle, carnelian, chalcedony, chartreuse, chloranemic, chlorine, chlorotic, chrysoberyl, chrysolite, citrine, citrinous, coral, demantoid, diamond, foliaged, garnet, girasol, glaucescent, glaucous, glaucous-green, grassy, green, green as grass, green-blue, greenish, greenish-blue, greenish-yellow, greensick, harlequin opal, heliotrope, holly, hyacinth, ivy, ivy-green, jade, jadestone, jargoon, jasper, lapis lazuli, leafy, leaved, moonstone, morganite, olivaceous, olive, olive-green, onyx, opal, peridot, plasma, porraceous, rose quartz, ruby, sapphire, sard, sardonyx, smaragdine, spinel, spinel ruby, springlike, summerlike, summery, topaz, turquoise, verdant, verdurous, vernal, vernant, vert, virescent, yellowish-green