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Definition of Bloodstones
1. bloodstone [n] - See also: bloodstone
Lexicographical Neighbors of Bloodstones
Literary usage of Bloodstones
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Economic Geology; Or, Geology in Its Relations to the Arts and Manufactures by David Page (1874)
"... other burnishers for foils (gold-leaf, silver-leaf, and the like) are obtained
from the mineral kingdom. These are chiefly agates, bloodstones, ..."
2. Economic Geology: Or, Geology in Its Relations to the Arts and Manufactures by David Page (1874)
"... other burnishers fo foils (gold-leaf, silver-leaf, and the like) are obtained
fromth mineral kingdom. These are chiefly agates, bloodstones, ..."
3. Workshop Receipts by Ernest Spon, Robert Haldane, Charles George Warnford Lock (1883)
"The best bloodstones are those which contain the most iron, and which, when
polished, present я steel colour. The operation of burnishing is very simple ..."
4. Handbook of Geological Terms, Geology and Physical Geography by David Page (1865)
"The name is also applied by lapidaries to stones, some of which are agates and
others jaspers—the agate-bloodstones being in greater part translucent, ..."
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