bloodstone
English
Noun
bloodstone (plural bloodstones)
- A green chalcedony that is sprinkled with red spots or veins of hematite.
- Synonym: heliotrope
- 1631, Francis [Bacon], “(please specify |century=I to X)”, in Sylua Syluarum: Or A Naturall Historie. In Ten Centuries. […], 3rd edition, London: […] William Rawley; [p]rinted by J[ohn] H[aviland] for William Lee […], →OCLC:
- These following bodies do not draw: smaragd, achates, corneolus, pearl, jaspis, chalcedonius, alabaster, porphyry, coral, marble, touchstone, haematites, or bloodstone […]
- 1936, Rollo Ahmed, The Black Art, London: Long, page 148:
- The magician wore a blood-stone ring […]
- Hematite.
Translations
green chalcedony sprinkled with red spots or veins of hematite
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hematite — see hematite
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