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Definition of Lazuli
1. Noun. An azure blue semiprecious stone.
Definition of Lazuli
1. n. A mineral of a fine azure-blue color, usually in small rounded masses. It is essentially a silicate of alumina, lime, and soda, with some sodium sulphide, is often marked by yellow spots or veins of sulphide of iron, and is much valued for ornamental work. Called also lapis lazuli, and Armenian stone.
Definition of Lazuli
1. Noun. (short for lapis lazuli) ¹
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Definition of Lazuli
1. a mineral [n -S]
Medical Definition of Lazuli
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Lazuli
Literary usage of Lazuli
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Masterpieces of Murder: An Edmund Pearson True Crime Reader by Edmund Lester Pearson, Gerald Gross (1876)
"3.1 100.0 Lapis lazuli occurs in calcareous rocks, associated and sometimes mi
with mica, and iron pyrites. It cuts glass, and emits sparks when ..."
2. The Encyclopædia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and by Hugh Chisholm (1911)
"Analyses of lapis lazuli show considerable variation in composition, and this
led long ago to doubt as to its homogeneity. This doubt was confirmed by the ..."
3. The Birds of America by John James Audubon (1841)
"The lazuli Finch, one of the handsomest of its tribe, was added to our Fauna by
THOMAS SAT, who procured it in the course of LONG'S expedition already ..."
4. Journal of the Philadelphia College of Pharmacy by Philadelphia College of Pharmacy (1831)
"The lapis lazuli, from which the colour is obtained by careful washings, is
procured from Asia (partly through the East Indies, partly by way of Orenburg), ..."
5. The Non-metallic Minerals: Their Occurrence and Uses by George Perkins Merrill (1910)
"The ordinary lapis lazuli is not a simple mineral as given above, but a mixture
of lazurite, ... The lapis lazuli sold in Kandahar is brought from ..."
6. Gems by Helen Barlett Bridgman (1916)
"Lapis lazuli is a magnificent blue stone. ... Lapis lazuli may be considered to
contain natural ultramarine, and before the introduction of the artificial, ..."
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