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Amethyst   /ˈæmɪθɪst/   Listen
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Amethyst  n.  
1.
(Min.) A variety of crystallized quartz, of a purple or bluish violet color, of different shades. It is much used as a jeweler's stone.
Oriental amethyst, the violet-blue variety of transparent crystallized corundum or sapphire.
2.
(Her.) A purple color in a nobleman's escutcheon, or coat of arms.





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"Amethyst" Quotes from Famous Books



... taken the rainbow to itself and given it back in a flash, now of pure, now of many-coloured light; the delicate opal, which looked like a rainbow vanishing; the red ruby, the green emerald, the violet amethyst, the clear crystal, and many more besides. They showed him lovely forms, that men had sculptured in white marble; and paintings representing many things—now a stormy sea with waves lashed into ...
— Woodside - or, Look, Listen, and Learn. • Caroline Hadley
... the housetops, Above the rotating chimney-pots, I have seen a shiver of amethyst, And blue and cinnamon have flickered A moment, At the far end of ...
— Sword Blades and Poppy Seed • Amy Lowell
... spoken of, p. 96.) But all the essential loveliness of the Myrtillae is in their leaves and fruit: the first always exquisitely finished and grouped like the most precious decorative work of sacred painting; the second, red or purple, like beads of coral or amethyst. Their minute flowers have rarely any general part or power in the colors of mountain ground; but, examined closely, they are one of the chief joys of the traveller's rest among the Alps; and full of exquisiteness ...
— Proserpina, Volume 1 - Studies Of Wayside Flowers • John Ruskin
... took from it a magnificent amethyst necklace. It was fastened with a shining clasp ...
— The Book of Stories for the Storyteller • Fanny E. Coe
... Sapphire is the blue, Pearl and beryl, they are called, Crysoprase and emerald, Sard and amethyst Numbered so, ...
— The Second Book of Modern Verse • Jessie B. Rittenhouse


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