diamond (diamond)

and a. [ Milton . IMG:content-2554.png:[blocks in formation] When the natural crystal is so perfect and clear that it requires only to have its natural facets polished,.. jewellers call [it] a point diamond . Bird wood, Indian Arts, II. 30. Rose diamond. See rose-cut. - Rough diamond, a dia mond uncut; hence, a person of genuine worth, but rude and unpolished. - Table diamond. See brilliant. II. a. 1. Resembling a diamond; consisting of diamonds; set with a diamond or diamonds: as, a diamond luster; a diamond necklace; a diamond ring. For all the haft twinkled with diamond sparks, Myriads of topaz-lights, and jacinth-work Of subtlest jewellery. Tennyson, Morte d'Arthur. 2. Lozenge-shaped; rhombic: as, diamond window-panes.-3. Having rhomboid figures or markings: as, the diamond rattlesnake.-Diamond cotton, a fine fabric of cotton and linen. Diamond couching. gla . See gla . - Diamond drill. See drill.--Dia See couching1 , 5.- Diamond-cut mond edition, an edition of a work printed in diamond, or in some other very small type. - Diamond fret. See fret3. Diamond linen, a name given to various kinds of diaper, such as toweling, the pattern of which is in small lozenges. - Diamond-molded gla . See gla . Diamond netting. See netting. - Diamond pencil, a cutting instrument used by glaziers and gla -cutters.adam ante us. Diamond rattler, diamond rattlesnake, Crotal us diamond (di'a-mond), v. t. [ The dia He plays, dre es, diamonds himself, even to distinct shoe-buckles for a frock. Walpole , Letters, II. 241. diamond-back (di'a-mond-bak), n. mond-backed turtle (which see, under diamond backed ). diamond-backed (di'a-mond-bakt), a. Having the back marked with lozenge-shaped figures. - Diamond-backed turtle, Malaclemmus palustris , a tortoise of the family Clemmyide . The shell is keeled, with the shields pale yellow, and marked with brownish rings, which are often impre ed; the head and limbs are grayish-black, spotted and lined; the temples are naked; and the nape is covered with soft, spongy skin. It inhabits the salt-water marshes of the middle and eastern Atlantic States, and is especially abundant in Chesapeake bay. This is the "terrapin" of the Philadelphia, Balti The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia: The Century dictionary IMG:content-2556.png:[blocks in formation]