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Definition of Alabaster

1. Noun. A compact fine-textured, usually white gypsum used for carving.

2. Adjective. Of or resembling alabaster. "Alabaster statue"

3. Noun. A hard compact kind of calcite.

4. Noun. A very light white.

Definition of Alabaster

1. n. A compact variety or sulphate of lime, or gypsum, of fine texture, and usually white and translucent, but sometimes yellow, red, or gray. It is carved into vases, mantel ornaments, etc.

Definition of Alabaster

1. Noun. A fine-grained white or lightly-tinted variety of gypsum, used ornamentally. ¹

2. Noun. (historical) A variety of calcite, translucent and sometimes banded. ¹

3. Adjective. Made of alabaster ¹

4. Adjective. Resembling alabaster: white, pale, translucent. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Alabaster

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Medical Definition of Alabaster

1. 1. A compact variety or sulphate of lime, or gypsum, of fine texture, and usually white and translucent, but sometimes yellow, red, or gray. It is carved into vases, mantel ornaments, etc. A hard, compact variety of carbonate of lime, somewhat translucent, or of banded shades of colour; stalagmite. The name is used in this sense by Pliny. It is sometimes distinguished as oriental alabaster. 2. A box or vessel for holding odouriferous ointments, etc.; so called from the stone of which it was originally made. Origin: L. Alabaster, Gr, said to be derived fr. Alabastron, the name of a town in Egypt, near which it was common: cf. OF. Alabastre, F. Albatre. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Alabaster

ala minor ossis sphenoidalis ala nasi ala orbitalis ala ossis ilii ala sacralis ala temporalis ala vespertilionis ala vomeris alaap alaaps

alabama period alabamine alabamium alabandite alabandites alabaster (current term) alabasters alabastre alabastrian alabastrine

alabastrum alachlor alachlors alacizumab alack alackaday alacranite alacrious alacriously alacriousness

Literary usage of Alabaster

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Dictionary of National Biography by LESLIE. STEPHEN (1885)
"Fuller is loud in his praises of alabaster—' a most rare poet as any our age or nation hath ... In June 1596 alabaster, as chaplain to the Earl of Essex, ..."

2. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and (1910)
"alabaster was educated at Westminster school, and entered Trinity College, ... From these it appears that alabaster was imprisoned for his change of faith ..."

3. A Dictionary of the Bible, Comprising Its Antiquities, Biography, Geography edited by William Smith (1898)
"alabaster occurs m the NT only in the notice of the alabaster-box of ointment which a woman brought to our Lord when he sat at meat in the house of Simon ..."

4. Dr. William Smith's Dictionary of the Bible: Comprising Its Antiquities by William Smith (1888)
"alabaster Vessel». From the British Museum. The inscription OD the centre vessel dénotée the quantity it hold«. The term alabastro, however, was by no mean« ..."

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