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Definition of Hiddenites
1. hiddenite [n] - See also: hiddenite
Lexicographical Neighbors of Hiddenites
Literary usage of Hiddenites
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The American Geologist: A Monthly Journal of Geology and Allied Sciences by Newton Horace Winchell (1901)
"The collection also contains a fairly satisfactory series of cut hiddenites from
Alexander county, North Carolina; a cinnamon-colored, fifteen-carat, ..."
2. The Americana: A Universal Reference Library, Comprising the Arts and ...by George Edwin Rines, Frederick Converse Beach by George Edwin Rines, Frederick Converse Beach (1912)
"The valuable gems, diamonds, emeralds, rubies, garnets, amethysts, opals, agates
and hiddenites are found. A fine exhibition of minerals, gems, ..."
3. Proceedings of the Good Roads Institute, Held at the University of North by University of North Carolina (1793-1962) (1897)
"The gem mine at Hiddenite, Alexander county, which has furnished so many beautiful
hiddenites, beryls, emeralds, quartz crystals and ..."
4. The Encyclopedia Americanaedited by Frederick Converse Beach, George Edwin Rines edited by Frederick Converse Beach, George Edwin Rines (1904)
"The valuable gems, diamonds, emeralds, rubies, garnets, amethysts, opals, agates
and hiddenites are found. A fine exhibition of minerals, gems, ..."
5. Hand-book of North Carolina, with Map of the State by North Carolina Dept. of Agriculture (1886)
"... only lately I made a $1300 sale of three emeralds and hiddenites to a gem
collector. We continue to find emeralds, beryls and hiddenite; ..."
6. Report of the Commissioner of Agriculture of the State of North Carolina by North Carolina Board of Agriculture, North Carolina, Board of Agriculture (1901)
"... hiddenites, valued at $150 a caret, and many others. The other four sections
surrounding the central space are devoted to exhibits of mines and building ..."
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