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Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Emerald

Em′er·ald (ĕm′ẽr·ald), n. [OE. emeraude, OF. esmeraude, esmeralde, F. émeraude, L. smaragdus, fr. Gr. σμάραγδος; cf. Skr. marakata.] 1. (Min.) A precious stone of a rich green color, a variety of beryl. See Beryl.

2. (Print.) A kind of type, in size between minion and nonpareil. It is used by English printers.

☞ This line is printed in the type called emerald.

Em′er·ald, a. Of a rich green color, like that of the emerald. "Emerald meadows." Byron.

Emerald fish (Zoöl.), a fish of the Gulf of Mexico (Gobionellus oceanicus), remarkable for the brilliant green and blue color of the base of the tongue; — whence the name; — called also esmeralda. — Emerald green, a very durable pigment, of a vivid light green color, made from the arseniate of copper; green bice; Scheele's green; — also used adjectively; as, emerald green crystals. — Emerald Isle, a name given to Ireland on account of the brightness of its verdure. — Emerald spodumene, or Lithia emerald. (Min.) See Hiddenite. — Emerald nickel. (Min.) See Zaratite.

Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Noah Porter, editor (Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913). Public domain. Text as transcribed by MICRA, Inc., from Project Gutenberg. Changed for Deep Dive Bible: Greek, which our source spelled in Latin letters, set in Greek letters; entries of one spelling merged into one article; Greek words our source left out (shown as “?”), read from the 1898 printing, from the same plates (the Library of Congress’s copy), where the place could be found with certainty. Of the others, 1,362 (a word or a single letter each) were inferred by AI from the context by the dictionary’s own rules and are marked with a wavy underline (tap or point at one to see the note); the rest, which could not be inferred with confidence, are left as “?”.