2. Adjective. Converted into a form of opal or chalcedony ¹
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Definition of Opalized
1. converted into opal [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Opalized
Literary usage of Opalized
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Guide to the Knowledge of Pottery, Porcelain, and Other Objects of Vertu by Henry George Bohn, Ralph Bernal (1857)
"A pilgrim-shaped bottle, of semi-opalized glass, entirely covered with metal-gilt
openwork of foliage of boys supporting shields, mask handles in relief, ..."
2. The Boston Journal of Philosophy and the Arts by John White Webster, John Ware, Daniel Treadwell (1824)
"Opalized wood. Opaque opal, more or less coloured, and opal jasper, by impregnating
wood, buried in the midst of the debris of pumice, have given rise to ..."
3. Transactions of the American Institute of Mining, Metallurgical and (1903)
"Brown sandstone, with black specks and fragments of opalized wood. ... White sands
with opalized wood, ...... 6 9. Brown coal, .......... 1 10. ..."
4. The Popular Science Monthly (1878)
"From the latter were suspended three chandeliers, the central one having three "
opalized " glass globes about one and a half foot in diameter—each ..."
5. The Condensed Chemical Dictionary: A Reference Volume for All Requiring by Chemical Catalog Company, Inc (1920)
"Wood, Silicified (Petrified wood; Opalized wood; Agatized wood). A natural material
composed of opal or chalcedony (agate) and formed by the replacement of ..."
6. The Edinburgh Philosophical Journal by Royal Society of Edinburgh (1822)
"Opalized Wood.—Opaque opal, more or less coloured, and opal-jasper, by impregnating
wood buried in the midst of pu- micose debris, have given rise to ..."
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